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Serenity GlenSerenity to Insanity with a Smile and a HUGG June 04 Back in time (the pics are here before posting) WOW! A Total Flashback!! Enjoy i know some of you are too young to remember some of these but they are CLASSICS from the 50's/60's ....for those of us who do remember ......enjoy !! How's This For Nostalgia?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. And they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Teach these kids some respect.
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Doody, The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
How Many Of These Do You Remember? Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie. P.F. Fliers. Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.
Peashooters. Howdy Dowdy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper. The Fort Apache Play Set. Do You Remember a Time When.. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'cooties'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . . I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya! May 31 Black and white
--Go all the way to the bottom past the pictures. I think you'll enjoy it. Whoever wrote this must have been my next door neighbor because it totally described my childhood to a 'T.' Hope you enjoy it. Black and White Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set, 'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.' Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. Ours wore a hat and everything. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself. I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. Oh yeah... And where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed! We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat. We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either, because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that? We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes. We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive? LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING! Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best. July 25 InjuredTo My Friends
Hi everyone;
It’s July 6th and I still haven’t checked my e-mail since June 27th or 28th. I don’t like form letters because they are so impersonal, but I have so many e-mails stacked up I don’t have time to check everyone of them. Each and every one of you are in my prayers.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve written, but there have been some changes in my life. When writing this I’m in a rehab center, not for drug and alcohol, for an injury. I have to learn some new living skills for a temporary problem. It’s nothing serious. I was working on my house and fell into the entrance to the cellar from the side, landing on my right foot about 5’ down. There were people there working, and one of them, Gerald, heard me yelling and called EMS for me. My blood pressure had dropped to 80/54 and I didn’t have the strength in my left leg to push my way out of the hole and it took six of them to get me on a backboard and out.
This happened on a Thursday and surgery wasn’t until Sunday. I lay at my house until Sunday morning when a friend of mine, Betty, drove me to the hospital. I broke 2 bones and pulled some ligaments. I remember the doctor saying something about screws plates and pins and the ligament damage not being as bad as they thought. I was doped up and don’t remember much. I couldn’t fix food or anything because with the MS I don’t have the balance, strength or stamina (fatigue is a major issue with MS) to stand on one leg. I didn’t realize I was in this bad of health. I have no stamina with a walker or wheelchair either. Again, fatigue is a major problem.
I am at Mt. Holly Community Living Center in Louisville Kentucky. It’s a rehab facility specializing in getting people back into independent living. I don’t look to be here a long time, but it will be several weeks. At least until I can get into a walking cast and can get my strength built up. (Julia could come and be my nurse. Then I could go home, LOL!!!!) All fun aside, I’m doing well and can’t wait to get the staples removed. Staples have been removed and I have to be on my back until Aug. 21st. What a Bummer.
I’ve had to cancel a couple of gigs, but I should be able to do my Son’s wedding at the end of October.
So to Wanda, Billy, Renuka, Julia, Jukes, Martha, Diane, Allan, Linda, Jean, Lisa, Tan Tan, Steven and family, Cory and Family, Trish and Family, and all of my friends, too numerous to mention both online and off, I wish the best to all of you and hope you are all in the best of health.
HUGGS,
Sherrill, a.k.a. Pa Kettle June 23 As You can tellAs you can tell I've been busy. This is the first time in a long time I've been able to write what's going on. Since retiring I've been working on the house an I think I can see an end to it. I've been 3 years without water and have had to pack. I haave finally gotten into the 21st century and have running water in the house.
The warehouse and apartment have been functionig but not my house. We have 5 housess on the same block so I've been using which ever has been vacant for my utility and bathroom. I guess that's all for this trip. Check out the photos of the yard. Little by little I'm getting things together.
I will be having surgery soon and the progress will stop for abou six weeks or more. I'll have a fully functioning house by then, so who cares. I'm hoping to have BB at the house by the time of surgery so I can keep in touch and not go stircrazy. I know I won,t be able to sit for several weeks, I think it's six.
Time to go, so will be up here soon. Thanks for being there.
HUGGS
Pa, AKA Sherrill
May 14 Time for God
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