The Intruder (By Lori)

When we were younger, Dee Dee loved to dress us up and take our picture.  It has long been a little family joke that another figure would mysteriously appear in those pictures (usually one of her fingers).  I'm not sure how old I was when these two pictures were taken, but we were at Ma's (Opal's) house at the time.  Ma did not have central heat and air and used those little gas stoves to heat the house.  Of all the spots in the house that I could have been placed to take these pictures, I ended up "straddling" the gas jet in both of them:

I have teased Mom about this for ages...Well, actually, I did tease her until I began looking at some of the pictures that I have taken through the years and I began to notice how many "intruders" are in them (that's if I even managed to get it all in the frame).  I didn't know that this was a trait that could actually be passed down, but apparently it is!