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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…