1939 In
those years we ate a lot of beans and learned to make home made tortillas.
There was always a cake in the pantry and a bean pot on the stove. My brother
Bud used to tease my mother a lot,
stuffing her apron top with oranges and untying her apron strings, lifting her
up and whirling her around.
There was always a heavy leather razor strop hanging by the back porch door, but I never ever saw it used. My mother used to take off after us with a stick but we always ran faster that she did.
There was always a cake in the pantry and a bean pot on the stove. My brother
Bud used to tease my mother a lot,
stuffing her apron top with oranges and untying her apron strings, lifting her
up and whirling her around. There was always a heavy leather razor strop hanging by the back porch door, but I never ever saw it used. My mother used to take off after us with a stick but we always ran faster that she did.
Grandma
Cook, (Anna Christina) came for a visit and was taken for a ride and picnic.....how she loved that. Old friends from Betteravia and Guadalupe frequently came out to visit, to
sit around the fireplace at dusk, chatting and listening to us harmonizing to
their old favorite songs songs ....it gave us all so much pleasure.
My 8th grade teacher had a dark room all set up at the back of our classroom and taught us photography. Once to my pleased embarrassment he made a composite picture of the most handsome boy at school, Lewis Hastings, and I. Because of the interest in photography that my Mr. Nightingale had instilled in me, I installed a dark room in an unused room at the lodge by the lake and did some amateur printing and developing.
My 8th grade teacher had a dark room all set up at the back of our classroom and taught us photography. Once to my pleased embarrassment he made a composite picture of the most handsome boy at school, Lewis Hastings, and I. Because of the interest in photography that my Mr. Nightingale had instilled in me, I installed a dark room in an unused room at the lodge by the lake and did some amateur printing and developing.
Elva was living in town taking care of Mrs. Rucker....we were so proud when she got the lead in the junior college play. Don was active on the high school paper, the "Breeze" and Naine made all the varsity teams, hockey, baseball and volleyball. Pord was living with Dempseys or out at the Osa Flaco hippie commune. They didn't call them that is those days.