Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Oh Ladies - your posts with the memories have me smiling on the way to dreamland. And I would never have remembered Chantilly perfume mentioned above. My brother saved money to give our grandmother Evening in Paris. I'm not sure she was impressed, but it was sweet of him at about ten years old. All that penny candy was so exciting. I still see dots on paper at tourist places occasionally. Last summer an ice cream man drove past ringing his bell. An adult son of my friend told the little kids it was the bookmobile!
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Oh the bookmobile LOL I told my grandson when his music plays he's out of ice cream--well he knows better now--but now these guys don't look like they used to, kind of spooky. Oh When my brother was about 13 he saved up his money and always bought the best Christmas gifts for us. He bought me a croket set, even tho we had no lawn just concrete and bought my sister who was 10 a bottle of Evening in Paris.---And I get that catalog too I love all the old stuff in it==even the gum....And what we considered staples in those day are gone but they have them in there= I bought my BIL Jackass soaking soap from there (or something like that) and they are just fun to look thru.
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Cammi! You are surely going to go to the big house! I mean they might not like what you are saying... And they might frown on some of your suggestions, like where to put their thoughts! But let us know, if you can, if you hear back.... Ha,ha!
So you said you are going for another "tet" this week.... that MUST be the same thing, or I am reasonably assuming you mean "test"...? What kind of test is it? I'll go WITH you this time... I'll bring a bottle of Vodka, and snacks in my Hobo bag... and cigarettes to smoke while we are waiting.... I don't smoke, but... oh wait! I'll bring a couple sticks of weed... that should do it! Are they called "sticks?" Man, that's all I hear around here.... AND read!
I just lived in a generation, where things like that were not talked about, or DONE!
Morning Wren! I know! I had the paint, material, all stashed, and as soon as they left, I got busy!
Sandra! Yes, I changed the rooms around so often, you almost got dizzy! DH didn't ever know WHERE he was! How fun you have those memories!
I remember those skates! With that key! I didn't Hula-Hoop... but I bought my girls the pop-beads, AND candy necklaces! I wore sponge rollers, and I got perms also!
Minus... Yes, I have ordered things from the Vermont Country Store..! But yes, they are pretty expensive!
Mimi~ We still have the ice-cream man drive by every day in the Summer! We used to buy popsickles from them when we were kids..
I LOVED "cream-sickles".... with the orange over the vanilla ice cream?
Do any of you guys remember "The Ice Man?" He would come around and bring big blocks of ice for our ice-boxes! And the Vegetable Man?
He would come by with his white-horse pulling that vegetable cart, and sell veggies that way!
THIS all sounds like I am way over 100....Ha! But those years were so beautiful, and peaceful! We used to drive out to the "country" which is NOW Arvada city, and take a big bucket, and buy wheat from the farmers, and go home and cook it! We cooked it for hours, and it was so creamy and good with sugar and milk!
And my folks had Lava soap?
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"Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and
body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding. The intellect
works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher
power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates
life." ~ Christiane Northrup
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I remember all of those things. I also remember staying the night with my cousins.....and we all used to same bathwater in the same old round galvanized to have our bath before bed. No wonder some of us have made it to this ( insert age ) time of life. Big gallon ( because they lasted and were much cheaper too ) jars of mayonnaise, ketchup, , and mustard and they never were refrigerated. Often flies got in the kitchen and walked all over everything....but we all remained sooo well. Had dirt roads and everyone walked barefoot....often all day long.
Picked wild berries and learned to swim in the mine pond. It was a pond dug for the cold mine to use and was muddy and icky, but if you wanted to learn to swim. Had to watch out for snakes and then there were mud daubers flying about -- other insects too.
I'm glad I grew up like I did with the outhouse and other inconveniences. Things do shape you and your perceptions of life --- so surely all these things helped rather than hindered me. I can be easily content.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Chevy, I remember the ice man or did the milk man have ice?
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I remember the milk man- seemed normal at the time, but looking back- that poor man, we lived on the fourth floor of a walk-up building, no elevator. And we weren't the only ones he delivered to. Wow, he must have been in good shape! I also remember all the things you all do. I also remember a knife man coming about once a month. He would stand in the alley between two houses and people would bring their knives to him. We also had our very own "bum" that came every Sat morning to the same alley to sing. If you liked what he was singing, you would throw a dime or quarter down. He also did requests (as long as you threw money first.) he had a pretty good voice.
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Anne, I remember the knife man too.
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Chevy - Most things were talked about in "our day" (I agree w/Jackie - insert age). Fun memories ladies!
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Yes, I remember the milk-man too! Only HE came to the front porch & left it in a milk-box, but the Ice Man came through the back door, with those huge tongs holding that ice block! Did you guys have a coal-man? He would throw coal down those coal-shutes into the basements of the houses that burned coal! We had gas, and a big heater in -between the front/dining room. When we moved in here, we had a floor furnace, but a couple years later had to have the Landlord put in a "real" furnace, because we were being gassed out!
We didn't have a knife man... My Grandpa had this wheel thing that he pedaled, that ground down and sharpened everything.
We were baby-sat by this family that had a coal stove, and the lady used to put her iron on there to heat it up.... They didn't have electricity either.. But I still LOVE oil lamps! I have 4 of them, and sometimes set it on the table, just to feel cozy.... Those folks had a water pump going into the sink.... and don't even want to forget their out-house, where their geese used to chase my Brother and I when we had to make a run for it! \
You are right Jackie.... "Those days" made us into what we are today.... and yes, we DO appreciate everything more! We DO have a dryer though... Never needed one before, because of all the clotheslines.... but I STILL have one line from the house to the garage, to freshen, or hang clothes on after 5 min. in the dryer!
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I remember the ice man. He would chip off a little piece for you to suck on. Houston was so damp and humid that hanging clothes to dry was just good exercise, didn't get the clothes dry. I remember hanging diapers in Oklahoma at Mom's house. By the time the last one was hung, the first one was dry. Probably more efficient than a dryer.
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I KNOW! And cheaper...Ha! Here in Denver, when my Mom would hang wet clothes out, and if it were freezing, the clothes would freeze, and be as stiff as a board! I STILL use clothes racks for in the Winter, and not dry them all the way in the dryer.
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Oh what fun memories!
Chevy, I also loved the cream-sickles. They were my very favorite of the ice-cream treats. I also remember the candy cigarettes that came in their own little box. We really thought we were something when we had a few pennnies to purchase them. :-) Back then candy and ice cream treats were really special....not like today where some kids eat some type of candy everyday. How things have changed! Popcorn balls were also something special and my grandmother made the all-time best popcorn balls!
I don't remember the knife man but we lived in a very small village on the river and there might not have been enough business there to warrant a stop. We also had the Jewel Tea man who stopped on certain days of the week.
Speaking of ticks, I just pulled one off of our outside cat yesterday. I hope that's not an indication that they are going to be out in droves again this year.
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I too worry about the ticks this yr. having had four already. The big surprise for me was that the dogs must have been running through the brush in the woods and picking them up. We didn't even have leaves on our tree yet. Consequently, I never even bothered to look myself over......just assumed none were out yet because I've never had any until after the leaves were FULL out.
Thanks for talking about the candy cigarettes. I had forgotten how one easy lesson and a penny could turn you into an instant adult. I also do recall the little dots on the paper. Geez, so many kinds of candy I had forgotten about. Though it cost more than a penny I dearly loved those big Sugar Daddy suckers. They were a nickel I think. Quite large and they had a lot of caramel in them. Long and fairly flat. I think the wrapper had a lot of yellow in it. Well, if I had a nickel.......that was what I was going to have.
We didn't have a knife man.....my folks had whet-stones and sharpened everything themselves. Did have milk delivery from one of our local farmers. Still warm when it came. The cream would rise to the top of the bottom and be poured off and Mom and Dad would have cream for their coffee. Those were the days. We did heat with coal....and had a special section in our shed.....filled from a window like place in the back where the coal was shoveled in off of a truck that came around. I hated the coal stove as it often seemed the only time you were really tasty warm was if you were right up by the stove. The rest of the house could be a bit chilly. We all survived though.
Now we have heating and air conditioning in the same furnace and my furnace is not even in my house. It is a small commercial unit that sits outside......so sometimes we don't even know when it comes on....no sound.......just the right temperature air dispersing itself through the registers.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Forgot to say....I also loved those Creamsickle bars too. Now you can make a cake that tastes just like them. I've made a couple. Just google for a recipe. They are almost as good as the old ice cream.
Jackie
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FYI: MaryWh is in hospice
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I would stay with my aunt and cousins, and our bath would be behind the wood cook stove. We did not have running water or septic in our house until I was probably 6 or 7, I remember when my dad and his friends dug the septic hole by hand, that was when my dad gave me a taste of beer. Yuck.
Ran errands today and then went to the broom shop and helped sew brooms and clean out cholla cactus for broom handles and walking sticks.
DD called this evening and her pathology report from her surgery is clean. So no more Chemo or radiation for now. Praise the Lord.
Hope everyone has had a good day. Hugs
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mommarch, so glad DD's path report came back clean.
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Brrrrr, cold and rainy here this morning!
Bringing back memories, we also had the organ grinder man and his monkey, and the balloon man, in addition to the knife sharpener, Good Humor, George the vegetable man( wud call out strawberries, watermelon). I remember when the Hunding Dairy man had a horse named Ben. We had a coal chute, later changed to gas heat. How about the shoe man with an xray machine! Yes, those were the days! Jean
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Chevy,
finally checked back a few pages, saw your bathroom pics! Looks like you have a clawfoot tub. We took out the jaccuzi tub , that we never used, it took so much water, had to stop half way thru the fill to get more hot water! Put in a claw foot when we remodeled the bath, but it is so hard to get into, never use it, but it looks nice! Use the shower in the other bath.
Hope you all missed the tornados in the south, but looking at the flooding in florida, unbelievable. Praying no one is in that area either. Stay dry and safe.
Jean
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We rise by raising others—and those
who stoop above the fallen, stand erect.
Robert G. Ingersoll
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mommarch, such good news that dd's path report is so good. Something to feel good about as you let out a huge sigh of relief. Did I get a lot of "goods" in there. Well, I guess that is what happens when its good.
Jean, I too was amazed at the flooding issues. But slow moving storms have plenty of time to drop excess rain in so many places......all the water has to go somewhere. Still, it is sorrowful that people suffer in these weather events ( so many states with tornados just now too ) and nothing much we can do but try to pick up the pieces. Sometimes I do think we have done too much to the Earth and that global warming is changing so much that we don't know what to expect anymore.
Gloomy here today but hopefully, no rain. The temps. are down to the 40's overnight and mid 50's daytime. Not so nice as we were having. A bit nervous that we might have one of those 'nasty' summers here with way too much heat and humidity.....sure hope not. Last summer was nearly perfect. Very un-expected, but we had the drought the yr. before.
More walking today and signing up for that nutrition class this afternoon. I think......might as well try and keep up with possible newer information.
I would not normally tout web-sites, but I do keep my eye on "Sparks People" recipes. This is one of the sites that I learned about in earlier nutrition classes and I really like a lot of the recipes.
Blessings
Jackie
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Hi Bonnets! Yes, it is a claw-foot tub, but the previous owners walled it in.... But it IS hard to get into... When I first broke my hip, I was afraid to step in there... but I put my walker in first, then held onto EVERYthing! Ha! Now I just step in like normal people!
The porcelain they used to make those, must be the finest ever! We will never have to replace it... 0 -
I'm trying to wake up here--Good Morning and yes I've been watching these storms lately OMG all the destruction. It's llike Mother Nature is really mad at us this whole year. I have no idea why this is underlining. Oh wellIt's glumpy here today, but I'm in all day so it's OK for me.
Oh how I remember all the street pople calling out there wares, that so fun, my mom would call out of the window and they would stop and wait. I do remember someone calling rags-o-line, or at least that's how it sounded to me, but don't remember what it was. Oh well
I hope everyone has a good day.
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Mommarch-such good news about your DD. I think most of us would prefer going thru this ourselves to having one of our children go thru it
Di2012- so sorry to hear MaryWh is in hospice. I just read a blog by a young woman in her 30's with 3 boys under 12 who fought ovarian cancer for 7 years before choosing hospice. I think our bodies know when they just can't fight anymore. And when that happens, our quality of life diminishes day by day. I know, for the woman I read about, the Drs (and she went all over the country) couldn't do any more, and what they were doing was keeping her alive, but unable to participate in family life at all, and she chose hospice so her last months she would be able to be with the family, instead of either sleeping, or suffering the debilating side effects of more chemo and /or drugs. I think that would be such a tough choice to make, especially when you have a loving family, and I admire Mary's courage. She will be in my prayers.
Anne
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Sandra, thanks for a "waking up from my nap" chuckle.
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Love that Sandra
Jackie
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Mommarch, great news about your DD.
I don't relate to a lot of the "town" and "city" memories since I grew up in the boonies. If your knives were sharp it was because an adult in the family sharpened them. If you ate veggies, they were grown outside in a large garden. Eggs came from chickens out in the chicken enclosure. I do remember the Bookmobile coming around during the summer. It stopped up the road from our house. My brother and I pulled a wagon and loaded it up with books. We were both "bookworms." Our mother would get annoyed because we would have our noses in our books and not respond as fast as she would like when she gave us orders to do a chore.
Jackie, I'll check out that web site you mentioned that has good recipes.
It was gorgous here today. 70's and low humidity. A perfect day for golf. It was day 2 of our ladies' group Member-Member tournament and my partner and I played well again today. We were the big winners. We each got a $50 gift certificate to Fresh Market. I went straight there and spent part of my prize. I bought organic kale and will try adding kale to my smoothies again. I'm really enjoying the Nutribullet. It does a much better job than my ancient blender. So thanks to Jackie and Chevy for making me aware of this product.
Hi to everyone.
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Carole....glad you like the Nutribullet. I have thought pretty much the same as you over a couple of things only to find out it was something I would really use and enjoy. Love putting a drop or two of soap and fill with water....turn the Nutribullet on and it cleans itself..........no wonder I love it so much.
The other thing that I poo-pooed for the longest time was a steam mop. For several years now I thought people who used them were sort of silly. A bucket and mop ( standard items in the life of most of the people I knew ) must be irreplaceable. Well, I finally broke down and got a steam mop a couple of months ago and I love it. Use it pretty much exclusively.
I do though have all laminate or in-laid..............so there is a lot of mopping at my house. Just wish I had not waited so long. I think they do an excellent job.
Jackie
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