Archive for January, 2007
Money was scarce
Money was scarce but if a family was fortunate enough to have a team of horses or mules, a few chickens and maybe 40 acres of rented or owned land, they would have enough to eat and wear. Almost no one had enough to spend for things we didn’t need. We learned a […]
Country Living In The 1930’s
The thirties were very stressful times in this part of the country. (Northeast Oklahoma) The great depression was in full bloom and in the mid thirties we had the worst drought and the hottest temperatures on record here. Those were the ‘dust bowl’ times but we only got some dust in the air […]
Credit on Daddy’s Account
When my brother Wayne and I were small children we were very poor and times were hard. We had a credit account at Sally & Loren’s grocery store. Wayne and I would stop by on our way home from school and get candy and pop. One month the grocery bill was very high […]
Snack for poor folk
When we didn’t have anything sweet to eat, we would take a cup of coffee, hot or cold, and put sugar, milk and crumbled up cold biscuits in it. It doesn’t sound so good now but we loved it back then.
$2.55 per day
Some years we didn’t get enough rain to make a good garden. My dad Charley had a steady job with the Kansas City Southern railroad as a section hand. His job was the hottest place to work in the summer and the coldest in the winter. He was a very strong young man […]
Internet Specialist
I had a job interview today at my current place of employment. It is selling advertising on our website and I am thrilled!
I love my current job but I am a geek and selling web space is where I need to be!
I had to ask my Manager if I could interview for the position […]Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC
I LOVE THE UFC !
Chuck Liddell, A.K.A. The Iceman is my favorite. A close second is Tito Ortiz. They recently fought UFC 66 here in Vegas and we were watching it on pay per view. : (I tell you what, I was going crazy! I was jumping up and yelling “get […]
Ben & Jerry Diet
Went to the Dr. today, my blood pressure was 90/100. I will be older than 39 in a few months and I guess I am starting to worry. The days of eating whatever I want are gone! New lifestyle coming ahead. Dammit. I was good today but then at 9pm […]
Shoebox note holder
We had a spring at the foot of the hill and a few houses on the opposite hill. A girl named Dorothy lived in one of the houses that used the same spring. One day we nailed a shoe box on a big tree near the spring. Every time we went to […]
Sweating And Choking On A Bone!
Annabelle woke me up at 2am today. She was running around the bedroom and whining. I thought “Finally! She’s potty trained and has to go outside!” I got up and opened the bedroom door and told her to go on outside (she has a doggy door). I went back to bed. […]
