Do You Remember When?

[Tatyanna]

I trust she will go for a good habit. We try to stop all the bad habits................

Cheers,

Jim

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[nanajojo]

do you remember when it was as cold as it has been here and nothing bothered yo to get out of the house . anyway, we would go all over in below zero weather with kids . now it is a different story.

 

[Tatyanna]

do you remember when it was as cold as it has been here and nothing bothered yo to get out of the house . anyway, we would go all over in below zero weather with kids . now it is a different story.

Yes...w/ scarfs wrapped around our faces...

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

do you remember when it was as cold as it has been here and nothing bothered yo to get out of the house . anyway, we would go all over in below zero weather with kids . now it is a different story.

It was 2 below last night at 3AM and I had gotten up for---well you know----so I decided to build a fire because the furnace was running too much. Think I'll keep the wood stove going till it warms up some.

Tried to get the Toyota up the hill and got it stuck. Should have stuck with my first idea and that was to let it stay in the garage

 

[nanajojo]

It was 2 below last night at 3AM and I had gotten up for---well you know----so I decided to build a fire because the furnace was running too much. Think I'll keep the wood stove going till it warms up some.

when the power was out Sat. we stayed at our daughters , they have a wood stove. it was so cozy and warm ( way too warm at times)
they don't use their furnace that much anymore now.

 

[Jim1927]

That's all we have for heat; a woodstove. I guess we take it for granted, even when it is -30 celcius. We are warm...the living is on the northside and it gets as low as 20 (70f) and that seems coolish, but we slip on a jumper and we are ok with it.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[gratefulgrace]

You sound like you are pretty self sufficient there Jim.gg

 

[pilgrimgal]

That's all we have for heat; a woodstove. I guess we take it for granted, even when it is -30 celcius. We are warm...the living is on the northside and it gets as low as 20 (70f) and that seems coolish, but we slip on a jumper and we are ok with it.

Cheers,

Jim

Hey, Jim. that is good especially since if there is an ice storm you don't have to worry about staying warm.

 

[bcauser]

Who remembers the Sunday School Christmas plays you were in?? I remember the ones when we had live animals and sometimes brought many a chuckle as animal didn't"t always do what they were supposed to do.
Bless
B

 

[gratefulgrace]

Never was in any with live animals. WE used to have a Walk to Bethlehem in our community with live animals but that was when my kids were little. I remember recitations. Anyone else remember them?

 

[pilgrimgal]

In the first grade I was in a Christmas play where I led a little band (tri-angles, remember those?) and my name in the play was "Merry Christmas." The little boy who played the male star was called "Happy New Year."

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

hmmm.......i don't remember any Christmas plays when I was a kid. Believe it or not my sister and I would sing duets at the Christmas Eve services. We had these white robes with big red ribbons and I was really embarassed. We had some money for the collection plate in one of those little plastic coin holders and during the service some kids who sat behind us stole the money.

When we got home one year there a was a skyrocket go off behind the house. Dad had run behind the house and lit it. Mom said that is was santa taking off in his rocket sled. When we got inside there was a piece of red velvet caught on the fireplace screen were dad had said santa had got his suit caught trying to get up the chimmney.

 

[Jim1927]

The little boy who played the male star was called "Happy New Year."

I wonder who played April Fool?

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Jim47]

Who remembers when you could buy a 6oz bottle of coca cola for 6 cents?

I remember getting coke out of big red cooler where you had to slide the glass bottles out of metal track. I'm pretty sure they were a nickol in my small home town.

I remember the thrill of watching moving pictures on the side of the town hall from a projector screen, walking 2 1/2 mles to school and loving it and then taking the long way home to walk my 3rd cousin home and a couple other girls, playing in the ditch and fishing with a piece of kite string and a safety pin, swingng in my tire swing, mowing GrandPa's lawn with a push manuel reel type mower, swimming in the ditch, everyone did that. My school was a little 2 storie red brick building. We had grades kindergarten thru 3rd in the basement and 4-6 upstairs. No indoor plumbing but had an outhouse inside upstairs. You went outside to get a drink of water from the pump.

I remember hurrying to finish supper so I could go in the other room and turn on the big radio and listen to The Lone Ranger or some other radio show. I remember they had some kind of scary show on that I liked. I remember Ma's ice box and the hand pump in the basement so she could get water to do washing.

When I was older we would fall small trees out near the pond and make rafts, these were a ball in the winter cause they were always half submersed and we would always end up falling off and getting soaked. I remember helping my neighbor cut fire wood and making tunnels in the huge piles of wood. Parents would be thrown in jail for allowing that now, but we had a blast.

Yeah, lots of great memories. I wouldn't trade my child hood for all the gold in fort knox. but my favorite memories are of playing checkers and old maid with GrandMa and listening to GrandPa tell me stories of when he was young. I sure miss them.

 

[gratefulgrace]

Sounds like we share quite of few of the same memories. I to walked to school about two miles for the first few months of grade one. Before we moved onto the airforce base. We had a hand pump at the kitchen sink and a wood stove. I think the scary show was THE SHADOW. We used to eat sugar crisp cereal as a treat before bed while we listened to the radio. gg

 

[Jim47]

Sounds like we share quite of few of the same memories. I to walked to school about two miles for the first few months of grade one. Before we moved onto the airforce base. We had a hand pump at the kitchen sink and a wood stove. I think the scary show was THE SHADOW. We used to eat sugar crisp cereal as a treat before bed while we listened to the radio. gg

Yeah, "The Shadow" that was it. You know those old radio shows were much more intertaining then TV ever was. I was on a hunting trip a few years back in the north woods of Mich and I found a station that had all those old shows. George and Gracie, The Shadow and a whole bunch of them. I would even come in early just so I could listen to them all and not miss any.

 

[Jim1927]

I remember when we used to sit about and WATCH the radio. If we wanted to play the gramophone, we had to wind it up with a crank handle.

I remember some of those dramas on radio when I first came to Canada in 1948. Inner sanctum, Ma Perkins, The Shadow knows, The Happy Gang and the list goes on and on, doesn't it? My first telly was in 1953....it was a huge cabinet with two doors on the front covering a huge 10 inch screen, black and white. Even the test pattern was amusing.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[pilgrimgal]

The little boy who played the male star was called "Happy New Year."

I wonder who played April Fool?

Cheers,

Jim

Jim, LOL, no April's Fool Day program in our school. Yours?

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

Yeah, "The Shadow" that was it. You know those old radio shows were much more intertaining then TV ever was. I was on a hunting trip a few years back in the north woods of Mich and I found a station that had all those old shows. George and Gracie, The Shadow and a whole bunch of them. I would even come in early just so I could listen to them all and not miss any.

Hey fella---I just noticed that was you. I was thinking it was the other "Jim". The other Jim is a great guy to. I was wondering why we had somewhat the same memories. Couldn't be that we're somewhat close in age? I know, I know, you're younger. Welcome to the GE forum

 

[gratefulgrace]

I remember when we used to sit about and WATCH the radio. If we wanted to play the gramophone, we had to wind it up with a crank handle.

I remember some of those dramas on radio when I first came to Canada in 1948. Inner sanctum, Ma Perkins, The Shadow knows, The Happy Gang and the list goes on and on, doesn't it? My first telly was in 1953....it was a huge cabinet with two doors on the front covering a huge 10 inch screen, black and white. Even the test pattern was amusing.

Cheers,

Jim

Yeah our TV was "huge" like that and yes we watched the test pattern in glorious black and white. I remember you only got programming for a very short portion of the day too. One thing I do remember is watching Stampede Wrestling in its early beginnings. Often reception was dependent on the weather and where you sat in relation to the TV screen. By the way I still own the old radio I listened to as a three year old with my brothers and sisters. It worked until a few months ago but needs new tubes. It even has a pull out turntable to play 78 rpm records like Frankie Laine and the Mills Brothers.