Tell about a bike you had.
I had an old one sped bike that was made for boys. It was red in color as far as I can remember and probably older than me but I rode it for a lot of years and was always so excited in the late summer when I could ride it all the way to the top of the hill coming out of Duchesne onto Blue Bench where we lived. It was a pretty good steep hill and was always a challenge to ride a bike form the bottom to the top without having to get off and walk part of it.
Describe a few of the favorite hairstyles of your youth.
Long hair with curls bringing the end of the hair flipped back up, however it was only on the girls until the late sixties when the flower children, hippies, started wearing it long on the boys and the girls. The boys hairstyles were neat and kept somewhat short and well off the collars and out of the eyes. Then in the summer it would be buzzed as short as the clippers could shave it without actually shaving our heads. It was much cooler for the summer but required wearing a cowboy hat whenever we were outside to avoid getting the tops of our heads sunburned. The girls styles look much lie the styles that today’s cowgirls are often seen still wearing with the hair ratted up above their heads.
Did you go barefoot in the summer? If so, relate an experience about stepping on something.
Only between the house and the canal and even then we often wore old tennis shoes due to the rocks and stickers. I did step on plenty of them when we went barefooted but we also didn’t wear them in the canal as we swam so the areas of the canal where it was sandy on the bottom it felt pretty good but other times when we landed on the rocks it didn’t feel at all great. I do remember coming back through the barnyard a couple of times though and stepping in fresh cow manure not because I wanted to but there was no where else to step. That didn’t happen but just a couple of times since the smell of the manure would stick to you for hours, it was bad enough always coming in from doing the chores smelling like a cow as to have to do it on purpose.
Did you ever make mud pies?
Lots of times and as I got older I got pretty good at making them and then using them to dam the ditches and make the irrigation water go where it was needed. Of course by then I was using a shovel instead of a spoon to collect the mud from the sides of the ditch. I never did eat any of them that I can remember nor did I offer them to anyone else to eat, we just played with them in the mud.
