Dec 28-29, 2010

Is there anything else that you would like me to know about my childhood.

Here again this requires multiple answers that would make this super long. Each of you though have had a lot of special experiences from church, school and community activities. We have tried to teach you the gospel through service in the church and by example. It has not always been the best and I hope you will forgive me of my short comings but also realize that I have worked hard to make your childhood special and good. I had a wonderful childhood and was raised by exceptional parents and other loved ones. I hope you feel that you have been blessed by that example given to me. I often worry about the challenges that lie before you as you raise your families knowing the temptations that each of your children will face but I know that so far you have been doing a great job and I applaud you for that work but I also promise that it will get harder and take a lot more effort as you raise them through their teenage years. It will be so important to help them find and keep good friends just as each of you have had as you went through those years. It will also be important to be there at their calls to service, games, plays and all of the other things that will shape their lives. Know their friends and be friends to them as well without losing the adult role that you will play in their lives as well. Be there for their scouting and Young Women's activities as much as possible and bear testimonies of the gospel as often as you can verbally and through hard work and service. I love each of you and are so happy with the choices that you have made in choosing a spouse. That person is also very important to us since we know they play a vital role in teaching your children also. You have wonderful families and we love each of you so much. Work hard and love harder so that they will have all of the blessings that our Heavenly father has waiting for you and your families. I want you o know how much I love my brothers and sisters and know that much of your strength will come from loving your siblings and forgiving each other of any things that they might have done to hurt you even though they most likely don't even know that it happened. I also love my grandparents so much and know that they loved me, help your children to know how much we also love them and see the beauty of their spirits. Thank You again for being patient with me and may the Lord Bless you through your lives as you strive hard to live the gospel each and every day. Thank you Hayden and Cheyenne for this opportunity to write something for each day of the year even though at times I have had to do it in streaks as I had time to sit and type as it takes me so long to get onto the screen what I am thinking n my mind. Forgive me for so many memories that have slipped beyond my grasp and enjoy the ones that have happened to get stuck in their various forms of completeness and truth. I have tried to record them as best as I can recall but realize also that the brain records and plays back with some things omitted or changed due to age and experience value with it also recalling things sometimes as you might have wished it to be rather than what it might have actually been. memory is a strange thing but it shapes our lives and helps us to become what we are regardless of pure historical fact. Now be all you can be, do all you can do, love all that you can love and live with God as the center of your thoughts and actions as well as you can realizing that we all make mistakes but that was why our Heavenly Father sent us a perfect Son to make it possible through repentance to return pure and clean to Heavenly Father and Mother and live as families eternally in love and peace.

Dec 27, 2010

Do you remember celebrating any special wedding anniversaries of your parents or grandparents?

Yes, it was my Grandfather and Grandmother Hansen's 50th wedding anniversary. It was celebrated in Centerfield, Utah. That happened 0n June 25th near the June 10, 1965 actual 50th wedding anniversary date. We had a family picture taken and of those that were living by that time the only three missing were Stan (on a mission in Argentina) and Alma and Jean my cousin. Three other cousins who had been born and passed away in childhood of course were also not in the picture. It was a big celebration and besides the approximately 50 family members that were there we also had a lot of people from Gunnison, Manti, and Centerfield (and that is only a few of the towns where they came from) come who knew Grandpa as a Stake President and holder of many other callings in the church in that area. He and grandma were loved by many people whose lives they had touched through their service in the church and community. He was also a Patriarch and gave over 6 hundred Patriarchal Blessings. It was a fantastic time for all of us.

Dec 26, 2010

Share any other Christmas memory.

I don't remember any other specifics right now. I have told about the books and guns and the homemade and boughten gifts. About the grandparents, other relatives, siblings and children's involvement. I have not remembered a lot and forgotten even a lot more but the one most consistent thing through the years has been the joys and laughter as families have gotten together because of this special time of year. It is therefore a good time to once again bear testimony of the truth of this event as recorded in the Holy Scriptures and through the histories of recorded time. It is hard to know the real truth concerning all of the events, for instance, were there three wise men or four or were there three gifts that were given by just a couple of them. Were they there the night of His birth as depicted in the stable scenes each year or was he nearing his second birthday since we know that it was recorded that the King ordered all male children 2 years and younger to be killed when the wise men didn't return to tell him where the child lived. Did the wise men thus follow the star for two years or did their journey only last 11 days. We don't know any of the real answers to most of these question only that it actually happened and even that is questioned by many today.

Well I for one know that it did happen and not at Christmas time as decided by a pagan king. It did occur and the most important king of all was born, lived and died then raised from the dead to make it possible for all of us to return to our Heavenly father into His Kingdom to live forever with them as a family. We can also become like our Father there and have eternal increase just as he has. I don't comprehend all of this but know that it is our promise from Him to whom we owe total and complete reverence, respect and love. I look forward to meeting them even though I do not know all of the details of how that will happen only that it will and I am working hard to be ready for that day. I do know that God lives, that Christ is my Savior, that the Book of Mormon is the most correct book on the earth and the truths contained in it are true and with the Bible they stand to prove all other religions are not true no matter where in the world they were created. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet called to restore this glorious truth and that Pres Monson is a true and living prophet toady for us. It has been my special opportunity to work with his son Clark Monson and through that relationship learned how very real Pres Thomas Monson is as a father and leader of the church. He is so special to each of us as has been all of the prophets that I have had the opportunity to know during my life beginning with Pres. McKay. This is the only true church on the face of the earth and it is rolling forth throughout the earth to grow in all nations until Jesus Christ can return as our King on this earth. I know this to be true and write it in the name of Him whose life we celebrate each year at this time even Jesus Christ, our Brother. Amen

Dec 25, 2010

Tell about the most memorable gifts that I have given you.

Ok now that is putting me on the spot. I cannot remember specific gifts given through the years. We amy need to have a family party where all we do is sit and talk about the Christmas memories that we have. It is always easier to recall when you begin to talk about them with others and that then brings you mind back to the specifics and what one doesn't remember someone else usually does. For instance Ben and Hayden were talking about the cork guns this year and had I been smart I would have had them continue on with as many years as they could. Another time I suppose.

I have a note written on this page also and must mention it for Hayden's sake. This is probably the most memorable gift that he will have ever given to me and in return I to each of you for it has taken a daily vigilance through the entire year of 2010 to accomplish it. The little book with each of it's questions has reminded me how much I have forgotten and yet also brought to my mind many special memories through the years that have shaped my life. It has been a lot of fun but now it has only begun since Marie gave me one for next year that is specifically LDS oriented and I will continue this blog using that book. I will also insert stories from my history story collection for days when the questions are similar to or been answered by questions in this book.

Dec 24, 2010

Tell about the most memorable gifts that you have given me.

Since this is written for each of you then I can only generalize since I don't remember very many specific gifts given through the years. I remember dolls and bikes and snow boards and cork guns but which years that they happened and to whom they were specifically given are far beyond me now. I do remember taking pictures every year that hopefully are somewhere in my storage of negatives and I remember video taping several of them but I would have to go back to them now in order to remember specifics. We always let you each set your stocking where you wanted and there were times that they were set with lots of rom in anticipation of some big presents. One year it took us nearly four or maybe up to six hours to assemble one of the gifts but for the life of me I can only remember it taking a long time but can't remember what it was.I also remember that it took all of the front room up to accomplish it and that there was no where to move around during that process.

Dec 23, 2010

Did your family observe the birth of Jesus at Christmas? In what ways?

Yes we did. We always read the story of his birth from Luke chapter 2 and Matthew. We would sometimes act out the parts as well. It was always read on Christmas Eve and was the best part of the holiday. There were also plenty of school plays and Church plays and parties that we would have where we would have the stable scene acted out or the story read and dramatized in some fashion also accompanied by plenty of Christmas song singing. we also would have hay rides nearly every year sponsored by various school or church groups. they re always fun and plenty cold. It was also taught most every year that we are only celebrating His birth but due to modern revelation we know the actual birth took place on April 6. Thus that is why General Conference is always on the weekend nearest to that date.

Dec 22, 2010

Tell about Holiday celebrations at a relative's house during your childhood.

Here again I draw a blank. I don't remember any celebrations at any relatives homes since we always had Grandma P with us at our home and the parties prior to Christmas were always held at school or church.

Dec. 21, 2010

Do you remember a best Christmas of childhood?

This wouldn't totally be childhood but the best Christmas of my life was when Marie said yes to my proposal of marriage. It has made all of the rest of them really special as well. Of course I have had special ones through my entire life because I have always had very enjoyable ones. Even while in the mission field when our Christmas tree was just green streamers taped to the wall in the form of a tree. The year I made the little pencil holders was a memorable one as well because of the hard work of keeping the secret while working on it and then the other Christmases when we would travel to Roosevelt and buy all of our gifts at the Five and Dime store since everything was basically less than a dollar and we could get everything we needed for less than $10.00. I have had good Christmases all of my life and remember the most consistent part of it being the Christmas story on Christmas Eve that we have read every year that I can remember even the year we did it in a snow cave by the front door of our home in Mapleton.

Dec 20, 2010

Tell about your experiences with Santa Claus.

Santa would come to occasional parties at school and church. I sat on his lap each time and received the little bag of candy and nuts that he would hand out. Other than that I didn't have a lot of experience with him. I knew that mom and dad stayed up late each year and were very busy putting out things for us. You see in my childhood home I slept up stairs. It was an older home and there were two rooms upstairs where the girls would sleep in one and the boys in the other. In the girls closet there was a vent to the room downstairs. In the winter we would open it up so the heat from the old coal stove would be able to come up into the rooms to give a little heat to the rooms. The best part of that vent however was the fact that you could see down into the room and watch what was happening in that room.So on Christmas eve we would watch for a few minutes and knew what was happening. It never spoiled Santa for us however since we knew who he was and the presents were still just as great. He was the one that always brought the books and put into our stockings the ones that were signed or written in with:

"To Kent from Daddy and Mother with love- Xmas 1961"

"To Kent Dec 25, 1962"

"To Kent on Xmas 1964"

"Dec 1965 Love to Kent"

"Dec 25, 1966 Dear Kent, Here's resource material for your talks. Merry Christmas, Love Dad & Mother"

"Dec 25, 1969 Dear Kent, Sister Stewart says, beautifully, some things that mean so much to happiness. May you enjoy this little book and find inspiration and courage to live the life of happiness and joy that comes from living the principles of the gospel. Lovingly, Mother"
"To Kent with love, Dad & Mother Dec 25, 1971"

Dec 19, 2010

Tell about the worst Christmas present you ever received, as a child.

Under pants and socks. What to tell about that since they were always necessary but never very fun.I did appreciate them since they were pretty much the only clothes that I didn't receive as hand me downs. I did get new clothes but the majority of my clothes came from the older brothers who grew out of them before they wore them out.

Dec18, 2010

Tell about the best Christmas present you ever received as a child?

I received some very nice presents each year and, as I have mentioned before, there were always books in our stockings. I suppose they were the best present that I received since I got one practically every year and used them every time I had to give talks in church. I think I also used them when I talked at seminary graduation my senior year. There were other presents like clothes for school that I received every year and there were also toys, usually one a year. I remember a large tractor one year that we played with in an old tractor tire filled with sand. Along with some other toys that stayed there for several years. It was a lot f fun and we all enjoyed it.

There was one present however that remains in my memory or actually one present that I never got when I was young like I had expected. Each one of the older boys got a .22 single shot rifle when they turned about 14 years old. So I expected one as well. It was year after year that I was disappointed in that I never received one. In fact I went on my mission and had still not received one. I didn't ever really need one because I had one to use since dad owned one that I was always able to take. It wasn't until a few years later that I learned why I had never received a rifle for Christmas and it was because dad had always intended that I receive his rifle as an inheritance. The rifle no longer works well since the firing pin is worn down from all of it's use but it remains as the best present I didn't receive until I was suppose to in later years.

This was dad's brand bar triangle. Everything was marked with that brand.

Dec 17, 2010

Tell about the neatest present that you remember giving to your dad.

It was a small pencil holder made from a piece of wood cut from a limb of a cedar tree. It was about 3 inches high and tall and had the bark removed and then 3 holes drill down from the top into the wood so a pencil cut be put into it. I remember that it was pretty cold as I worked o them out in the barn so they wouldn't know about it. I actually made several of them at the same time.

Dec 16, 2010 Happy Birthday, Marie

Tell about the neatest present that you remember giving your mom.

I do not remember what I gave to mom since it was probably something small bought at at store. I know she always liked cameo pins and it seems like that was one gift we gave as several of us together one year. I think though mom and dad got more from watching the joy on our faces as we ran to our socks and opened the presents than what we gave to them. It just seems to be something I guess that comes from being a parent. I made mom lots of small gifts in school and hand prints in plaster and macaroni pictures seemed to be the norm for those years. They even hung in the house somewhere for several years.

Dec 15, 2010

Did your grandpa or grandma ever make gifts for you? Tell about them.

The one gift that I remember being made for me by a grandparent was a 3 legged bear made from the old upholstery that was taken off the couch that I ended up having for many years after we were married. The old brown couch we had until 1993 was given to me by mom and dad and was the couch that was redone with new fabric when I was only about 5 or 6 years old. Grandma Poulson used that old fabric and made all of us little animal pillows or what we always referred to as a stuffed bear. I still have it somewhere in my stuff.

Dec 14, 2010

Did you hang a Christmas stocking?

Yes, kinda. We never had a fireplace so we would each get a spot in the room where we could put one. Usually a chair or on the couch. We would always look forward to going to our socks and I remember the two things that we could always count on being in the sock were an orange and a small thought book from mom and dad. I don't really remember when I stopped believing in Santa Claus and maybe that was because I knew mom and dad were always a part of it since they apparently gave the books to him to put into the sock.

Dec 13, 2010

How did you decorate your trees?

We always made fresh popcorn strings. We would make a long string and then put it around the tree. It usually would reach around several times due to the length that we would make them. We would also put the glass balls on the tree and also hang an incredible amount of tinsel (which we would have to remove string by string as well). There would be the few and far between ornaments that we would make in school that would be hung on the tree as well.

Dec 12, 2010

When did you put up your Christmas tree? Where did you get them?

We usually put up the tree about two weeks before Christmas. We would either go cut down a tree (cedar) on the hillside above our home or we would buy one from the Scouts who would sell them for fund raisers. I even was a part of going after those trees for a couple of years. It was always nice to have the smell of fresh cut trees in the home but in our married years we had to buy a fake one that would last for several years due to the raising costs of the fresh trees , that around here were never fresh.

Dec 11, 2010

Were you ever in a church or school or Holiday pageant?

I remember a lot of plays that I was in when I was in Mutual and school. I don't remember any pageant however even though I am sure I had to have been in them at one point of time. I remember being in May Day programs and in July 24th parades but I don't remember ever being in a Christmas Pageant.

Dec 10, 2010

Tell about something that you built, designed, or made as a youth.

Well as I think about it I made hay stacks probably the most of anything. Every summer we would build two or three of them and only once did it fall over. I think I have told about that day already.

Dec 9, 2010

What did you like to look at there?

I already answered this on the last blog. I need to read ahead a little more.

Dec. 8, 2010

Tell about your favorite stores to browse in as a child.

That's not hard since there was really only one store to browse and that was Kohl's. It was in the middle of the business block on main street and we had to walk past it every time we walked to Primary so that was when I would "browse" if it could even be called that since we really only had a few minutes to get there after school. I use to like the candy section followed by the tools section. We had everything in that store from clothing to candy to tools and lumber or hardware. It was the only store in town for a lot of years before Wilkerson's built the IGA that then basically ran Kohls out of the food part of the business. There was only one cafe also for many years Cowan's Cafe and to this day I have only been in it once and that was as a representative for the school yearbook asking for donations. I don't know why I have never eaten there but it was a cafe and I usually went to the Dairy Queen or the Frost Top, fast food places. There was also one drugstore that I would frequent once in a while but not much compared to Kohls.

Dec 7, 2010

Pearl Harbor Day--- If you are not old enough to relate a memory of that day, relate any other childhood remembrance.

I was not born until many years later from this historical event so I can relate no memory of it. I remember the Viet Nam war and grew up in the era of the draft evaders such as one of our future presidents was during that time. I remember Stan going to Viet Nam and the events around his Honorable Discharge from the Army and I remember Clair serving as a Military Police at Fort Ord and I have known many who were in that war. War is never a pleasant thing even when it is written in the history books many years later.

Dec 6, 2010

Do you have any knowledge of how your first name was chosen?

I really do not.

I may have to ask Alma and see if she remembers.

Dec 3,4,5, 2010

Use the next three pages for anything else you would like me to know about your childhood.

The question is why I have put these three dates together for this entry. Since I can put as much as I need on a blog page and not be limited to the small pages in the book.

I hope you have learned a little about me this year that might be of worth to you for your life. I have enjoyed the experience even though I know that most of you have hardly followed it anyway but that's OK since it is now written and I am on a roll to add a lot more that you may never read but it has been fun. I am a bit ashamed of all that I have forgotten about my youth but in a few moments will tell you about what really mattered most anyway as I was growing.

Many people consider their childhood as a painful experience and even though I had some challenges as a youth I must admit that they were lessened extremely by those whom I was associated with during that period. I have written about the Marie Behrmann's, Ray and Donna Hansen's, Sister Beverly Caldwell's, Harold Spencer's and Steve Aycock's that were there for me and gave me great direction. But I have not written as much about the Grandparents, parents and siblings that really were the greatest blessing of all that I had. Yes I have told you about Leesa (Tim) throwing the sugar bowl lid and hitting me but I haven't told you about the many times that she was a mentor and loving sister. She gave to me a great example to follow and I will always appreciate it. She had high grades in school that eventually prompted me to seek for the same. She was active in Seminary and church which made it easy for me to follow the same path. She was fun to be around and when pauline was added to the family it was even better as I got to be a part of their life as well together. Alma (Loyle) was always my best friend, and I thank her the most for having taught me to love to sing as she was the one who taught me to sing alto in a song that we sang for Sacrament meeting as a family one year. Stan (Nadine) was the one who first set the example of going on a mission and giving service to his country as he went to VietNam during the war in the military. He told me once after his mission that he never dated because he wanted to go on his mission, serve in the army, and complete his education before he married. He did just that too and we were shocked the month before he graduated from Utah State University when he brought Nadine to a concert that Lynn, Leesa and I were performing in at Snow College. he was married a month after he graduated and had already served. I loved listening to him play his guitar also. Both he and Clair played the guitar. Clair (Ruth) was a great mentor to me also and to his credit he was the more rebellious hot headed one that learned what life was all about and changed so that he became an example of the right things to do in learning how to control his temper and refrain from swearing. He was in a bishopric and setting a great example by the time I was called to serve a mission from the same ward. Lynn (Julie) was closer to my age and consequently we probably fought more with each other. I never remember having any fights with Stan and Clair even though they fought each other enough as it was. Lynn and I did though and he always won(he had four years on me). However it was with Lynn where I probably learned to work the most since he and I were the ones at home, after Stan and Clair had left, to be the ones to help dad with the farm work. We hauled a lot of hay together and it was usually just the two of us by that time. We had the haystack fall over that we had to rebuild and plenty of other experiences but most of all he set the example to get his Eagle Award in scouting and instilled the desire in me to also want it. We were also room mates during my first year in college and I have always been grateful for that even though I hardly ever saw him.

Even though she was younger by three years Marsha (Scott) was always fun to be with as well. She helped me to stay active as well since I was the one to whom she most likely looked to for guidance at church and school. I will never forget the accidents that she had where I wish I could have taken the pain from her. The broken tooth from jumping into the pile of leaves that I had also been jumping into, and the fall from the car onto the road where she was scrapped up so badly and the doctor had to scrub out the rocks with a wire brush. As I look back though I am sure glad that was what had to happen with so many other things that might have happened.

I have not really told much about my grandparents and cousins. There are too many cousins to really mention them here but I had some great friends in them as well. Although my cousins on Dad's side of the family were all much older they were still some great mentors to me. It was more their children with whom I played when at reunions since they were all in the range of age that I was. Many of them are dear friends as well today and have set great examples for me as well. My mother's side of the family were also a lot of fun and great examples. I was toward the middle of the ages there and so had older ones to look up to and ones my age to always play with. Some of my dearest friends are cousins as well. My Aunts and Uncles were always a special part of my youth (and adult life) as well. I only knew two of my father's brothers since Melvin (Helen) and Veda (Jack Skewes) had both passed away years before I was born but I loved to be with Mont and Florence and to go to Tennis and Fern's place in Orem. They were the two brother's of dad's that I knew. Then on Mom's side there were all of her sisters and their husbands that I grew to love dearly. There were Velma and Kay Lyman, Zelma and Lyle Clement, Helen and Chester Hill, Carma and Carling Allen, and Ardyth and Doyle West that were all very dear friends and I learned a lot from them and how they treated people especially each other. I had many special experiences with each of them and their families. I hope to continue my blog well into the future as I put my history into stories on this blog for you (and probably mostly for your children). I am reminded that there are a lot of stories that I have not listed that I should tell about where my cousins were a huge part of my life.

Grandpa George Alma Poulson was my one grandparent that I can only vaguely remember as my only memory of him was sitting on his lap in their home in Duchesne. Grandma (Nana) Rozilla Johnson Poulson however was a huge part of my life as I spent every afternoon of my kindergarten year in her home until Mom and Dad were done with work. I loved her tapioca pudding and great chocolate cookies and raisin cookies. She was with us in our home for each Christmas including her last the day before she passed away. She was always such a special part of my life in Duchesne. Grandpa Charles Savern Hanse from whom I received my patriarchal blessing at the age of 13 and Grandma Alvira Westover Hansen who always had fresh bread and was always cooking something in her kitchen when we arrived in Centerfield, Utah to visit was a huge part of my life. Every birthday we could look forward to a dollar bill in a birthday card from her. Mostly though what I got from each grandparent was a knowledge of the fact that they loved the gospel of Jesus Christ and were always great examples of living it to the fullest. I had very very special grandparents.

Dad (Kermit Poulson) and Mom (Gertrude Ilean Hansen Poulson) however were the greatest factors in my having a childhood that was fun and not very full of heartache from wrong choices. They set the example that I should follow and helped me to learn all along the way. I spent a lot of my childhood days at the feet of my parents during Family Home Evenings, a thing not stressed yet by the church, and around the piano singing as a family. I went to church with them and enjoyed their company at many of the activities in the ward. We always went as a family to tithing settlement at the end of each year and they taught us the principles of the gospel and how to live them. I rode with dad to many a ward meetings throughout the stake as he served on the High Council and then later rode to many meetings with him since he was in the Bishopric during my teenage years. I also spent a lot of time with him during the summer going to schools to work with him throughout the county as he was the Superintendent of Buildings and grounds for the Duchesne County School District. I spent many years with mom also in the library at Duchesne High School learning to love books and how o properly care for them and how to file them. I spent one entire semester at school organizing and cataloging all of the schools periodicals for her. Most of all though I learned from them to love the gospel as they bore testimony of it in all that they did in their lives. Dad was not always active in the church and in fact was smoking the first time mom saw him as he came out of the post office with Tennis shortly after she moved to Duchesne to take a job as a county social worker. She changed his life and he changed mine.

Now I have not been as good as them and I have had my own personal challenges through my life but I do want each of you to know that I am working hard to be like them as I want to be with them through the eternities. I have spoken of many today in my family that have had a great influence on me and my testimony of the gospel is stronger each day because of my desire to be more like them. I have worked hard in the church because they worked hard in the church and showed me why it was so important. I love the gospel and though I have made mistakes they are not nearly what they could have been had I not been raised with such loving family and friends. I hope you each know how much I love you and want the best for you. I hope you each strive to do all you can for the Lord as you continue to build your strength in the gospel and your testimonies of it. You have a great heritage and it goes even beyond me and my parents for many generations. We have truly been blessed by each of them even though we have not known them personally here on this earth. I believe that we did know them before and made promises to them to try our best and to follow their righteous examples that they tried their best to do when they were here for their test. May the results of our test be acceptance back into the presence of the ones from whom we have had the greatest help and example, our brother Jesus Christ and our loving Parents in Heaven, we call him God the Eternal Father and we call her Mother since she is so precious to him that we know little else about Her. We do know she loves us as well though and wants along with Him to have us each back with them. This gospel is true, strive your hardest to learn that for yourself and gain a strong testimony of it. Now I want each of you to know that I love you and that I know this gospel is true because I have felt the promptings for the other member of the Godhead even the Holy Ghost as I have been in some very special places and He has let me feel of the goodness and truth of this gospel. May the Lord Bless each of you along your way as he has been blessing me to this point and I know will continue to so do through the rest of my life.

Dec. 2, 2010

As a youth, who was your favorite movie star? Why?

John Wayne. He was just a rugged cowboy in most of his movies and that was where my roots came from so I enjoyed his movies.

Dec. 1, 2010

More Favorites:

Bible Verse- The Lord's Prayer

Pastime- Rabbit Hunting, We would take .22 rifle's and go up above the house and hunt Black Tail Jack Rabbits. They were a problem but it was probably more the fun of hunting that we did it. I don't care to hunt anymore with guns but love to go out with a camera instead.

Nov. 30, 2010

More favorites:

TV Show: Rifleman, and Lone ranger and Zorro. Yeah that's three but I liked all of them a lot.

Song: "Hey Jude", by the Beatles. I was dancing to it with Marie once when I was tapped out by Leon Mallow. I was really liking Marie and didn't like that I got tapped out but I still walked her home after the dance.

Color: Blue

Nov. 29, 2010

Tell your all-time favorites:

Food- Baked potatoes, I loved the peelings after they came out of the oven and after I had scooped out the potato and put butter into it then squeezing it together and taking a bite of that hard crusty peeling. Of course that wasn't my only favorite food since I absolutely love homemade ice cream and root beer.

Book- My favorite books from my youth was probably the books that mom had where we would go to identify birds that we would see in the yard at various times of the year. It was always fun to find out what they were.

Movie: Well I don't know that it was my favorite movie but the one I always remember the most was Old Yeller. I really did like it a lot even though it was very sad.

Nov 28, 2010

Tell about the Thanksgiving traditions of your youth.
I don't remember a lot of the traditions but it seems as though we use to go play basketball in the front of the barn where we had a hoop mounted. We couldn't really bounce the ball since it was all dirt in front of the barn but we could play Horse and we had a lot of fun. I do also remember preparing the turkey that we had raised that year. I was involved from the start when we caught it to when I helped eat it. I don't remember being upset by it because as i remember it was a pretty big turkey and I was a little bit scared of it.

What foods were on your Thanksgiving table?

Turkey, Carrot Pudding, mashed potatoes, rolls, fruit and juice. Well I am only guessing on most of these because that is what we have had most of the last several years at our home but I don't really remember what we had but I do remember always being too full after it was over.