- getting up on cold mornings and dressing by the stove
- finding pictures in the clouds..............
- napping under a hay stack...................
- my grandpa and his house.................
- milking cows and herding cows with daddy..
- my first day of school in a little one room school.............................
- fresh vegetables from mama's garden......
- school fair every fall
- family members who have gone ahead that I will see again someday
- rice pudding with raisins every Christmas eve
- hanging my Christmas stocking
- running out side to get a bucket of water
- my favorite kitty who was called princess Margret rose
- getting letters from folks from the old country
- mail came only 3 days a week and we had to walk.................................... a half mile to the mail box
- riding the work horses
- oatmeal home cooked for breakfast
- Christmas concert that we the school kids put on
- pink running shoes
- wearing dresses to school like all the girls did
- walking to school which was a mile and a half from home........... and walking home again
- telephone numbers with only 2 numbers
- party lines with the telephone
- potatoes for supper every night
- going for Sunday drives where we drove slow enough to smell the dust
- my pet Billy goat who thought he was a cow
- all our dogs named Lassie and
- all grandpa's dogs named Rover
- stores where the owners knew you by name
- planting gardens for a whole year of produce
- getting my first pair of glasses at age 12
- long hot summer days where we played outside everyday with no shoes
- giving birth to my two daughters 5 years apart
- watching 2 of my grandkids being born and holding our daughters hands
- meeting Papa David in the cafe where I worked
- drive in movies
- making our own bread
- cleaning a chicken- I loved doing that-
- cleaning fish too
- brother and I playing house where he was the farmer and I was the house keeper- seems nothing much as changed --LOL
- mama staying up all night on the coldest weather and keeping the home fires burning
- daddy sawing and spitting the wood for the fires
- my first TV show was the marriage of Princess Margret Rose's wedding
- second TV show was hockey night in Canada
- swimming lessons in the river-
- first day we got power and how bright it seemed after all the years of coaloil lamps...
- feeding baby lambs a bottle with some whiskey in the milk....and keeping them under the stove to drive off
- new baby calves and helping dry them off with if they came to early in the spring
- grass was green and we sat on it rather than smoking it--LOL
- picking rocks with daddy and the stone boat
-------------------------------------------------------- there is the first 50 - guess I could use nearly every one of these to write a tale=
Huggles me, Marilyn Christine
(Meme16)
Do not run ahead of the Lord, but walk with Him, pray for His guidance
and listen to His answers. Lord, let me put Your will first in my life.
(Meme16)
Do not run ahead of the Lord, but walk with Him, pray for His guidance
and listen to His answers. Lord, let me put Your will first in my life.
