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  • gritty roof tiles (trigger)

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    My cousin, Beth Rae was my very best friend for a long time. I don’t know if she even knows that. We lived across the street from each other and used to stand out in our front yards when we couldn’t play together and just chit-chat. I remember Judy’s Beauty Shop in a little trailer…

  • 13 Quilts

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    There was a stack of quilts in that upstairs bedroom where we had our beauty pageants for boat trophies. Gam was making a quilt for each of her 12 children’s families. I am not sure when she started this venture but I knew she was making them- and I knew why. One day in the…

  • ponds cold cream

    One of my oldest memories is when I lived in the trailer, between Rosalie & Jimmys house and Jean, Jill & Eddies house. I was sitting in my highchair, and someone appeared in the window, maybe Dean or Eddie. I can also remember being outside with Jill, and she and I went walking back in…

  • Backwards Man

    The sweet Church Hall beside SignPost Methodist Church I think was once used also as a school, it has to be 120 years old. Its where we had after Church lunches and dinners and refreshments, and where we had Bible School. I can see a bunch of my aunts and older cousins back in the…

  • Valentines Boxes

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    Each year in school were allowed to bring a shoebox that we decorated to collect our Valentines in. Well…this kinda thing is right up my alley! I love Valentines to this day, and I think it all started with those boxes that we were assigned to make. I would go right straight to Gam’s house…

  • she was 17 (trigger)

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    My mother was born on December 22, 1950, I was born August 16, 1968, that makes her 17 years old when she became pregnant with me. I’m not talking about being 17 in the 1920’s and having a husband, I’m talking about 17 in the 1960’s, and alone and the raising you have had, you…

  • uncle allen

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    I always a felt a little bit intimidated by him, yet when he made eye contact with me his eyes twinkled, and he truly was a sweet and kind man. Pretty sure he’s the first person to ever take my nose off! Then he’d push his thumb between his index and middle finger and say,…

  • jaybird

    The circle from the den to the kitchen to the dining room to the good living room and back to the den without stopping, through the 4 doorways, do you remember? One of my earliest memories of all is Pop laying on a couch along one wall in the den and I think I must…

  • Cinnamon Toast

    She’d take a slice of white bread and spread butter on it and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and put that in her toaster oven. I remember it being over in the corner next to the little wooden cabinet. Jody replaced the glass with plexiglass years ago, and I’ve since painted it green but it…

  • Eyelid Headlights

    I always thought my cousin Joy was exquisite anyway but the day she rolled up to Gams in her little sporty whatever that car was with the eyelid headlights – I knew she was a SUPERSTAR! The kind of headlights that pop up with a button and if off they are completely invisible. She had parked…