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Farewell, My Hair

8/26/2015

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“Make me look like one of those Army Ranger girls,”
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 I requested of the owner of Jerry’s Barber shop, who is in fact a pretty blonde lady named Jenny. 
    
Now, a gal can’t breeze into a hairdresser’s salon and ask the stylist for an Army Ranger cut;  and even Jenny the barber was reluctant to accommodate my request..    
    But the problem, as I explained to Jenny, is that hair needs shampoo and shampoo needs to be carried in the backpack so the hair has to go. 
    "But I could just cut it real short for you," Jenny suggested,  "like I did went last time you went on your Spain hike." 

    This was the cut Jenny gave me two years ago when I walked into her shop a few days before my last Camino and asked her for a "guy cut".
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    I considered for a moment then decided, no, this time I wanted to go for the Ranger Girl look. I wanted to give it a try. Just this once.  Just to see how it would feel. Just to see how it would be.
    "Okaaay," Jenny sighed, pulling out her clippers then proceeding, as my locks fell away, to list all the advantages I'd enjoy during my hike with this clean, neat, cool, cute, problem-free style.  I think she was afraid I'd freak when I saw the final result.
    But no, I didn't. 
    As I walked out of the barber shop I got stuck in my head the song I used to hear the soldiers sing as they ran their morning P.T. on the army post in Germany where I used to work:
                               I wanna be an Airborne Ranger
                               I wanna live a life of danger...

    Of course I don't want to be an Airborne Ranger or live a life of danger.
    I just look  like I do.

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Romaine
8/25/2015 11:57:10 pm

That is a nice look on you!

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Patti
8/26/2015 11:44:47 am

Romaine, do you think this would finally be short enough to make Mom happy? Or maybe I should have left just enough for some "devil curls"? ;)

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Tracy
8/26/2015 12:29:27 am

WoW! Not everyone can just go and shave their head! Tracy

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Patti
8/26/2015 05:05:04 am

Thanks, Romaine and Tracy. Much to my surprise, I've gotten nothing but compliments on my buzz cut. I'll say one thing, it sure feels liberating! I think every gal should try it just once!

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Claire
8/26/2015 01:01:59 pm

Looking good Mom!

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Patti
8/26/2015 09:49:31 pm

Thanks, Honey!

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Cooking Charles link
12/15/2020 05:18:18 pm

Thannks for sharing

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    Patti Liszkay

    My husband Tom and I will be walking the 490.7-mile Camino de Santiago de Compostela from St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to Santiago, Spain. We leave Columbus 9/02/15 and return 11/02/15, God willing.
    If you're interested in reading about our first Camino two years ago I've chronicled that journey in "Tighten Your Boots" at www.pattiliszkay.weebly.com

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