Memories

I found this strange picture and I don't know what the occasion was. I think that is Jim Huffman on my left. Probably someone's birthday.

I finished a crocheting project and what a relief it is. I think I'm going to hang the crochet hook up for a while.
I wish the Hurricane would fizzle out. It must be terrible to have your home and everything you own destroyed.

My first grandkids

I'm just killing time until bedtime and it's about that time. 

Kenny and Chris in the early days.

A moment in the past.

Here I sit with a new laptop bringing me joyous joys. 

I tried to add something to my blog last night, but it wouldn't let me publish it. I shall try again. 

My Granddaughter, Deena and her twin sons, Dylan and Tylor. I think it was about 24 years ago.

Zero Zilch

Now there is an egg recall. You take a chance with your life every time you eat something. Now they need to invent something to scan your food before you eat to find if it's safe. When there is a need someone will find a solution. People needed to know what kind of weather was coming so they found a way to do it. They had find a way to preserve food. I guess that's why we were born with brains. We sure wouldn't last long without them. 
Since I started this we moved over into Tuesday in the Pacific Northwest.
I don't have any funny or any interesting things for this entry. My neighbors never venture outside.

I shall return!

My family early to mid 40's

One brother was not home. He was in Japan

fighting in the big war. My brother on the right had just returned from Hawaii. He was in the Air Force serving in Pearl Harbor   when it was bombed.

The Sun Comes Up

I wasn't born here, but this was the era when I was born. In a little farm house on the Plains of Oklahoma. The old car looks like the one my dad owned when I came on the scene. Life was so boring then, but no one knew it. The cows had to be  milked and the eggs gathered on a daily basis. Church was the highlight of the week. Neighbors gathered at the little country church and exchanged tidbits of their lives. What in the world did they talk about? Crops and cows for the men and canning, gardening and kids for the women? The mother was usually expecting another baby.
Our house had a tiny kitchen with a stand in one corner with a water bucket and a wash basin setting on it. A wood cooking range, an oval shaped table on the west wall with a bench behind the table which three of us kids sat on. Grandpa lived with us and he sat on one end of the table and Dad sat at the other end. Mom was a great cook and always had a nice meal. I remember we had lots of fried potatoes. She grew a big garden and canned everything We had a cellar to store the canned goods in. 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. That's my life today. The sun comes up and the sun goes down. 

Till next time.

Being Poor is a Bore

I went to Walmart to buy kitty litter and spent $50.00.

 If food wasn't so necessary we'd all be a lot richer. I used to live a lot higher on the hog with a lot less money. Everything seems to be out of kilter. A person living on the minimum wage has to pay almost all of their monthly check on the rent. The landlords want as much money as they can possibly get for their rentals. We need limits set on things. 

We hear complaints about government control, but maybe we need more of it to keep things more evenly balanced. The greedy get richer and the poor get poorer. Now the poor can't get any poorer and many are now homeless. 

The Way You Wish it Wasn't

I’ve been hanging around for 86 years, and I’ve seen a lot of new inventions in those years.  I have been wondering which may have been the greatest invention of all time. I’m not sure, but I bet toilet paper caught on pretty quick. Who invented toilet paper? No, they didn’t teach that in school, they taught you who invented the cotton gin. Who cares who invented the cotton pickin cotton gin. I don’t think I’ve had any use for that piece of knowledge in my entire life. What a waste of my school time. Even if I were on Double Jeopardy, they wouldn’t ask that one. 

I don’t know when it was invented, but the bread toaster was a great one in our household. We never had toast. My mother would make a pan of biscuits from scratch each morning. Mixes were not in existence yet. She also had to build a fire in the stove to bake them in. The first toaster we had was not automatic. It had a panel on each side that you dropped down so you could flip the toast and burn/toast the other side. Someone had to man the toaster because you had to guess when it was done. I wonder how many slices of bread went up in smoke in those days. 

Speaking of bread, my mother always made our bread, and one day we bought a loaf of bread from the store. We were bowled over because the bread was already sliced. What will they think of next! We constantly hear the expression ‘the greatest thing since sliced bread’. I still think we should say ‘The greatest thing since toilet paper’.

We even had electricity in our house. Many people didn’t have it yet in our area. We lived without it for a few years. It was like camping forever. Who wants to camp forever?

The day our new refrigerator was delivered was a day of celebration. People kept their food in ice boxes. People continued to call the refrigerator an ice box for years. I think some still do.

Our first washing machine had a gas motor. You pulled on a cord to start the motor. It was something else for us kids to fight over. It went like this. I get to pull the cord. It’s my time, you pulled it the last time. Did not. Did so. We didn’t have many toys in those days. On wash day everyone gathered around the washing machine, and watched the agitator go back and forth. As I recall, we had to bolt the washing machine to the floor because it danced all over the porch.

Those were the days I don’t want to relive. 

A few Old Things

Taken a few years ago. My two youngest brothers, Gene and Hollis.

This was back when a picnic was to take your food to a park or the woods, and spread it out on the ground and eat.
1946 or so. Left to right, Bud (my husband), me, Mary, Arthur(father-in-law) Lucinda(MIL) The boy is Little Wayne. We called him that because he had an uncle with that name. We sometimes still call him little Wayne. His Dad, Leonard behind him. They are now all deceased except me and little Wayne.

Remembering When

By Bill Boyd, Perkins, Ok

Do you remember when?

The noon meal was called dinner and the

evening meal was called supper?

You went outside to the toilet and ate inside?

Folks said: “I’m much obliged” instead of

“thank you?”

Seeing a picture show for a dime was delightful

entertainment?

Red Christmas socks were hung near the Red Cedar

Christmas tree?

Cardinals sang their melodies, perched above

The snowy landscape?

The aroma of peanuts roasting in the oven,

excited the palate?

The handshake was a binding contract?

Eating snow ice-cream was a winter treat?

Blue-bib overalls were considered fancy dress?

Wagons were pulled by horses, instead of tractors?

Piggly Wiggly was popular as Wal-Mart nowadays?

Western movies were shown at the Mecca and

Camera theaters?

Every Saturday night at 11:30, previews were shown

at the Aggie Theater?

The Glencoe cotton gin was like money in the bank?

Gene Autry did a show at the Campus Field House?

Where did I lay my glasses?