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Did you ever play that game when you were a kid? "Button Button, who's got the button"? LOL, I just thought of that game the other day when I was preparing to replace buttons on my Hawai'ian blouse I have had for years. So many buttons are missing, and I wanted to begin wearing it again, so I cut off the remaining TWO buttons and went searching for a matching set from my button collection. I needed six. Actually, now that I mention this, I have two from the times we went to Hawai'i. The flowered one I just fixed with the buttons, which I purchased in the market in Honolulu near Waikiki, and the other one is a T-shirt that I purchased !YEARS! ago on our first trip there. The T shirt was found in a little curio shop on a road [heck if I can remember exactly WHERE, 'cause our son was the tour guide on that trip!]. Anyway, the T-shirt is special to me 'cause I actually WALKED...no, I climbed into the extinct volcano... with much labor....since I was NOT acclimated to the heavy humidity back then being from the thin air of Colorado. Well, anyway, we climbed to the very top of Diamond Head. Was it worth it? Most certainly. And, I'd do it again. So, we get down and get back in the rental car and Erik says, now...drive here turn there and stop here. We drove, we turned and we stopped. Found the T-shirt "I climbed Diamond Head" on the front. Trust me, if you've never been there...or if you HAVE and climbed Diamond Head, and you're body is accustomed to high mountain air instead of the humid tropical...you're/you know you were up for a challenge!! Warning, take with you lots of water and TOWELS to wipe off the water leaking out of your pores!!!

I digress. This post is about BUTTONS!! Okay, so I found six that'll work. But while I'm in my button collection, searching, I thought this would be an opportunity to show you some antique/and mid 1950s buttons of my mother's. I have a few. Shown below...


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SHOW N TELL







Then, I found these that I've had for years and years...the most 'unusual' buttons in my collection...

PIG buttons!




GLOBE BUTTONS
[back in the late 1950s outer/winter coats were adorned with lots of brass]





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Oh, and in case you wanted to see the infamous [18 year old] T shirt. I'll play model and show you...And if you read on the back of the shirt...there is mention of the 99 steps---this is where Erik trained for the Honolulu Marathon each year he lived there; running up and down the steps 25 times; daily. Some people just like to torture themselves!!!







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FLASH [non] FICTION 55

"I SURVIVED THE HIKE"
I traveled over uneven rocks
and dirt surfaces which
led me through a dark tunnel
and up a steep 99 step stairwell.
Then there was this
narrow spiral staircase inside
of a bunker! My reward for
climbing Diamond Head was a
panoramic view of South Oahu
from Koko Head to Barbers Point...
and this T Shirt....

[the above is exactly 55 words!!!! Word counting Tool online. So, I'm cheating...maybe just this one time!]










POSTED: [a day early] for Friday, May 21st, 2010
12:30 A.M.