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Remembering my parents' Christmas tree
Comments (19)First step - tradition - bundling up as kids, taking axes & saws, and tromping thru snow to find that perfect tree to cut down, and somehow getting it home. Always placed in the corner, so perfect it had to be tied to the two adjoining window sills with rope to keep it standing. Ah, that fresh pine smell. Ah, a week later, needles everywhere! So what, we had a tree. It was adorned with those big lights, bubble lights, an array of fabulous ornaments, and the tinsel. Always looking every day in case a new wrapped gift appeared under the tree. I never have, and never will, shake, peek, or question the giver. A gift should be a surprise. The gift pile would magically increase overnite after Santa's Christmas Eve visit, and the cookie plate would be empty. Early risng was necessary on Christmas morning to see the bounty, and siblings would wake siblings first. Old parents can wait. Breakfast was on the fly, if at all. It was a full morning of PJ's and paper and toys (and boring socks!) Everyone had their pile of goodies before the wrappings were discarded. We had to be dressed before the big meal, usually 1:00. The dining room table was fully extended, and the fine china place settings carefully placed. The best meal was duck, roasted to crispy perfection with all the trimmings. Gobble gobble, and back to the toys. Christmas Day was for our family to enjoy Christmas, not running all over the place. Friends/relatives could visit the next day, or whenever. New Years Day, the holiday was over, so take down the tree. Ornaments were carefully packed away. And a final vacuum of those needles. The tree was chopped into small pieces and shoved into the coal furnace. Roast Pine! Bye bye Christmas for another year. The picture shows one box of some of the tree ornaments, which I still have. There are also some of the huge, round, hand painted ones. Fa La La, and Merry Christmas to all....See MoreWhat Food Do You Remember From Your School Lunch Room?
Comments (67)I attended high school in the 1950s and our school did not have a lunch room. The students brought a bag lunch from home and ate in the bleachers in the gym. My typical lunch was a sandwich, a fruit, and a pastry. We high school kids carried our lunch in paper bags. If I was careful with my bag, it could be folded after use and slipped inot my back pocket to be used again. I usually got 3 days of use out or one bag. My one room country grade school lunch experience was different. I carried a lunch box with themos. The thermos liner never lasted an entire school year before it was broken. Most of the time it broke when dropped of when I fell during my journey between home and school. One time it was broken when I used my steel lunch box as a weapon to defend my self from the school bully. Times were difficult for my family during my grade school days. My sandwiches were made with cuts of cooked, home cured pork on slices of home-made bread, I remember once when we ran low on luncheon material, I had a bean sandwich. This was navy beans between two slices of bread, one slice was buttered with home made butter. During those times, once I had a raw turnip to munch on. In the fall, I'd grab an apple or two from a tree in our small orchard on my way to school....See MoreWhat do you remember about moving into your home?
Comments (40)DH was born and raised around the oil fields of Oklahoma and wanted land around whatever future home we bought. We’d (or I’d) looked at over 100 homes and lots when a patient of his told him about a lot in a mountain community with incredible views AND gas lines and internet ( a VERY BIG BONUS out here!). He packed us a gourmet picnic lunch ( with chilled white wine, my fav) and drove us out here. Smart guy! As we dined, he has gave me his vision of our future dream home on this multi-acre lot, surrounded by thousands of acres of pine trees ( and other homes). As I was born and raised in the suburbs north of Detroit on a lake, he knew he'd have do for some serious sweet talking to get me out of the suburbs here! I caved. . . with one caveat: we had to have multiple covered portals (patios) so that I could sit and relax in the shade somewhere, no matter what time of day. We built our dream home on this very lot and 27 years later I’m still loving it! But, I am very thankful for the many shady portal we have . . . and our drop-dead gorgeous mountain views!...See MoreDo you remember when
Comments (47)High top tennis or gym shoes. Steering wheel spinners. Gear shift knobs. Vacuum tube radios. Moon hub caps. Rumble seats. Inner tubes. Inner tube patching kits. Tire Irons. Top Dressing (for non metal car tops) Kerosene. Kerosene wick lanterns Lamp wicks. Lamp mantles ( made of asbestos fiber) Naphtha (aka White Gasoline) Used in mantled lamps, clothes irons, camp stoves, and blow torches. It was free of dye. Dye in fuels tend to clog burner orifices. Red dye is put in gasoline as a identifier. Blow torch Pressurized mantle lamps and lanterns. Cap pistols. Gene Autry outfits. Radio shows: Sky King, Superman, Green Hornet, The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Molly, Foot powered grind stone. Bailing wire. Grain reaper and binder. Binder twine. Threshing machine. Saw mill powered by a steam engine. I-Bar bridges. Steam train engines Caboose (These have been eliminated on present day trains.) Advertising painted on barn roofs near highways. Burma Shave signs along roadways. Packard, Studebaker, Nash, AMC, Plymouth, and Oldsmobile autos. Open pollinated corn. Horse drawn carriages and wagons. Feed sacks made of printed cotton cloth. (After the contents were used, the sack could be disassembled, washed, and used to make cloth articles. One sack contained one yard of cloth or more. This was popular during WW2 and faded away after the war.) Foot treadle sewing machines. Huskter Truck (During WW2, country stores ran Huskter trucks. It was a moving grocery store and typically visited rural homes twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday. If the truck did not have an item, the housewife could order the item for delivery on the next trip....See Morelisa_fla
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