Ugh, I've Been Kissed By A Dog!

When I was a kid, there were a handful of shows, movies, and cartoons that aired on TV once a year. Made for TV productions like Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of the classic fairy tale,  "Cinderella", "The Wizard of Oz" and of course prime-time animated specials like "A Charlie Brown Christmas", were annual television events at our home, not to be missed by my brothers and myself if at all possible. Starting in 1965, (the first year "A Charlie Brown Christmas" aired on Television) our family could be found sitting down in front of the TV watching these shows each year when they were on---without fail. Unlike today, if you missed these once a year programs because you were in the woods behind Patton's house playing army, or you'd lost track of time while down below the house damming up the creek, you had to wait an entire year to have a chance to watch them again. There were of course no VHS tapes and players, no DVR's, and there was also no cable television, at least in our neck of the woods. In the 1960's and 70's, you either made plans to be in front of the Television at the pre-determined time to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas", or you missed out on the event altogether. 

I have fond childhood memories of watching special TV events-especially those around the Holidays-like "A Charlie Brown Christmas", while eating Little Debbie Christmas snack cakes (the ones shaped like a Christmas tree) and washing them down with a 16 oz. bottle of Pepsi or Coke; the kind that then came in actual glass bottles.

This picture of Olivia and Douglas reminded me of the Charlie Brown cartoons when Snoopy would lick Lucy on the face and she would run off screaming something like, "Ugh, I've been kissed by a dog---get the iodine!", or something pretty close to that. Unlike Lucy, Olives usually runs off smiling and jabbering something not yet quite understandable after a dog kiss for her buddy Douglas. In any event, she seems to get a much bigger kick out of dog kisses than Lucy ever did. Further evidence that no two people are exactly alike. I'll keep you posted....