Balogreene For a gift today, I was given two wonderfully amazing gifts. A baseball autographed by Sweet Swinging Billy Williams, and a coffee mug from 1969 with the Cubs Battery's autographs, Ferguson Jenkins, Randy Hundley, Ken Holtzman, Rich Nye, and more. I remember when you got those at the gas station (or something like that ). I'm pretty sure we had the whole set. I'm told they are now selling on eBay for decent money.
Yesterday at 00:40 EST .
Ole buzzard I'm jealous!! But who can ever forget the swoon of the 1969 Cubs? That is the stuff of baseball history.
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Gram77 The mobile home park where I live built a large fenced in area connected to the laundry building and it's all clothes line. I can't remember when I last hung up a washing but it sure brought back older times. Me with clothes pins in my mouth and an old wicker clothes basket. It felt great!
Yesterday at 22:53 EST .
StarFire My Mother, 1942 in Columbus, MS reclining on my dad's Army Air Corps jacket. Miss them both greatly.
May 12 at 16:50 EST .
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Rake King Star-fire: Does she have those things they called "rats" in her hairdo? I have photos of my mom and aunt with those things in their hairdo...what an awful name to give to that product.
May 15 at 09:27 EST .
StarFire No, R.K. Mother didn't need a rat. Her hair was dark and thick through all of her 85 years.
She married my dad just before H.S. graduation in 1942. They were both 17. He joined the Army Air Corps and left for Basic trining. He returned on leave in time to accept his diploma. He also accepted diplomas on behalf of his fellow servicemen who could not return home for the ceremony.
Mother and Daddy were home-town, high school sweethearts during the depression and into WWII. They were married over 66 years before Daddy passed away. Mother followed less than a year later. It was a true "greatest generation" love story.
May 15 at 10:41 EST .
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Rake King Thought all of you who typed on manuals, to have an electric enter the scene, this would bring back some memories.
May 11 at 19:07 EST .
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Surfhut Sure does! Wonder if she's holding a steno pad.
May 12 at 07:13 EST .
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Ole buzzard Sure is, Surfie! Enlarge the picture, and you'll see the vertical line down the center of the page and the spiral binding at the top of the pages.
May 12 at 08:09 EST .
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Surfhut I buy all the office supplies at work. People thought I was crazy when I bought steno pads. Had to educate them into the wonders of taking notes all day about whatever, then flipping the whole thing over when the pad got full and writing on the clean back sides. Oh! What a concept!
May 13 at 19:42 EST .
Rake King All you "Remington Raiders" (Army typists circa 1955-57 ). would have given anything to have had one of the above.
May 15 at 09:30 EST .
Surfhut After work, I sat on my patio for a bit. Two little girls (sisters ) were out in the warm air and slight wind with bottles of bubbles. They were having so much fun, giggling, chasing bubbles, playing with each other. Reminded me of childhood with my sister.
A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking.
He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway. I told him right off he was crazy.
He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car,
His hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn Sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale.
I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day. But then, there's Been a lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.
The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's Gone, and the wood has turned silver gray.
Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired.
Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.
That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood there, Gazing at that old barn.
The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls Of his den in a new country home he's building down the road.
He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and Scorching sun, only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I. Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us. Sure we turn silver gray too... And learn a bit more than We did when we were young and full of sap.
But the Good Lord knows what He's doing. And as the years pass He's busy using the hard weather of our lives, T he dry spells and the stormy seasons to do a job of beautifying Our souls that nothing else can produce.
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away To beautify a rich man's house.
And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off To Heaven to take on whatever chores the Good Lord Has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful Then for the seasons we've been through here... And just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.
May there be peace within you today. May you trust God that you are Exactly where you are meant to be.
And..................I do sincerely Thank God for my wonderful friends and Family who care about me even though I show signs of weathering!
Surfhut Today would have been my big sister's 65th birthday. So many memories. SusieQ, baby I love you, SusieQ. See you in Heaven one fine day.
April 4 at 20:48 EST .
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Rake King I am an only child. While given much "stuff", I never knew the love of a brother or sister. That's why my wife and I agreed we would have 3 children....that "they" could.
Surf, she is making a place for you.
April 5 at 09:12 EST .
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Surfhut I'm one of 4. I know and hear about people who don't get along with their siblings as adults. My brother, little sister and I are very close.
SusieQ had twins. They are polar opposites yet adore each other. Bro had 1 child and he loved being the only. Little sis has 2 who, as young adults, don't like each other at all.
I only had one child. He loved being the only while growing up. Now that he's a young adult, he thinks he wants 5 kids because he feels he missed out.
Life is interesting!
April 6 at 09:19 EST .
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Rollingcow There's three of us and both of my brothers are still with me (one lives here in the Barn so he's really with me ). We were only able to have one child as well, but he and Mrs. Calf have almost 4 little ones who bless our lives every day. I just love the delight on the faces of the Calf and his lovely wife every time they announce they are expecting a new baby. Just think of the rewards when your son marries and starts on those five babies for you to spoil. Mrs. Cow
April 6 at 11:28 EST .
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Surfhut I remember when the Calves were expecting Miss Charlotte and we had a "name the baby" thread on the Coffee Klatch. Sure would be fun to have another name the baby thread.
May 12 at 16:50 EST .
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