May 29, 2009

Petticoats

Posted in Fun, History, Life, Personal, story tagged dance, dresses, flamenco, petticoats, square dance at 12:05 am by pdxfirefly

OK, I admit it!   I love to Square Dance!   You already know that I love to Flamenco dance and I have several beautiful costumes. 

But I also love to Square Dance.  It is the State dance of Oregon and several other states as well.  It is a great way to meet wonderful people, get exercise,  have fun and exercise your brain, too.  And for singles or families the cost is quite reasonable.

I bought this house because it had enough room for me to store all of my beautiful costumes from Flamenco, and another performance group I have yet to tell you about, and all my square dance dresses.  Well actually the dresses are not the most difficult thing to store… it is what goes on underneath the dresses that takes up all the room!

Yes, I do wear those short skirts with all the fluffy petticoats underneath.  And actually it was because of one of my square dance dresses that I first noticed my swelling abdomen (and waist) which was for me the first sign of my Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma.  I noticed that my belt for my skirt was tighter than normal, yet I weighed about the same.  That made me go Hum?  “ What is happening?   Oh well, I guess my body is just changing.”  but that is not what happened.   Now I have to store all my beautiful petticoats and dresses away for a little while, but here is a picture of them before they go into the closet!

Petticoats by PDXFireefly

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