1. I could buy an ice-cream cone, a soda and a bag of potato chips, all for 25 cents.
2. My Mom drove our VW for an entire week on less than $2.00 worth of gas--don't you wish that could happen today??
3. Catching fireflies was the best excuse to stay up past 10 on a warm summer evening--ahhh, I must go out tonight and relive that memory...
4. I could attend Bible Camp for 7--yes, SEVEN days and nights for $7.00--Yes, SEVEN dollars.
5. My grandparents would take us fishing and we'd cook our trout catch right along the brook in a cast iron fry pan--thick slices of Gram's homemade bread topped off our feast--Yummmm
6. Making homemade ice-cream in my Grampie's hand-crank freezer was the best birthday present!!
7. Our teacher (at the one-room schoolhouse) took the entire student body (30 students maybe??) on a hike into the forest behind the school so we could all help cut down the Christmas tree for the Christmas concert that would be attended by the entire community--I totally love this memory..
8. Elvis made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
9. We got our first dial phone that hung on the kitchen wall--of course we never got to use it much with 10 other families on the "party line".
10. Wading in the brook in the summer kept us cool, while we made bracelets from dandelion stems--we actually wore those things until they fell off.
11. I mowed the lawn with a push mower--that is, a push mower "not" powered by gas but by my very own muscles only--I'd love to find one of those things today and push it again...
12. A week's groceries for two cost less than $10--in the early 70s that is--that included lots of baking supplies and treats..
13. My Mom used to give us home perms--until...that fatefull perm gone wrong happened in my Grade 10 year in high school. That was the END of home perms for me!
14. We made our own fun--in the summertime we waded in the brook, climbed trees (sometimes in our bare feet), had peanut-butter & Jelly sandwich picnics under a shade tree, laid down on the grass and "imagined" what shape the clouds were--in the wintertime we dug snow tunnels in the HUGE drifts, skated on our road when school was closed due to freezing rain, took our dog sliding on a snowy afternoon--those were the days my friend ♥
15. I "preached" a mighty fine sermon to my fellow "one-room-school mates" after being to a "tent revival meeting" (even had a few converts) ☺
16. We only had 2 channels to watch on TV--and were quite content with progams offered, but seldom watched in the summer months.
These are just a few memories from "back in the day" that make me smile--hope the same goes for you,
Blessings,
Barb
PS: This was written (perhaps) summer of 2009, but I wanted to finally share it with "you"
2 comments:
Barb! Great memories. I remember a few of the same things but having grown up in the city, there were a few I didn't have the pleasure of experiencing. Keep up with your blogging. You are a writer as well as a singer you know.
Blessings my friend,
Pam over the dam ;-)
Awwww--thanks Pam--I love blogging--I've just been lazy lately--need to get back in the groove here--love your Blog as well--Blessings to you too ♥
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