It was 41 years ago today that a little red-faced ball of ornery came into the world, wrecking my brief idyll as an only child and turning me, for better or worse, into a Big Brother.<\/p>\n
And I do remember meeting her on the doorstep at 724 Third Avenue Southeast in Jamestown and hoping for not a whole lot different.<\/p>\n
Barb went on to a long career as Dad’s little darling (it’s true!\u00a0 it’s true!), the family’s talented artist, and along with little bro Jim the bane of my young existence – and, later on, a 4.00 (if not more – criminy, where did that<\/em>\u00a0 come from?) student, renovator of chicken coops, mom of Happy birthday, Barb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was 41 years ago today that a little red-faced ball of ornery came into the world, wrecking my brief idyll as an only child and turning me, for better or worse, into a Big Brother. And I do remember meeting her on the doorstep at 724 Third Avenue Southeast in Jamestown and hoping for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}three<\/strike> four<\/a> adorable kids, and the queen of the area north of Billings, Montana.<\/p>\n