As far as raking leaves we had plenty of them as well since we had an orchard where the lawn also was. There were apple, apricot, pear, peach and several other types of trees. (Mother loved trees.) Anyway one year we had a huge pile of leaves under one of the apple trees and were jumping into it for some time before Marsha came out holding her mouth. She had hit a rock and broken one of her front teeth. I haven't jumped into a lot a leaves since then.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Oct 5, 2010
Do you have any special memories about raking or burning leaves or mowing the lawn?
Wow do I ever, well maybe not special but very memorable. We did not own a power lawn mower until I was in High School. All of the mowing of the lawn was done with a push mower where the blades turned because of the wheel turning and they were ones that swept against a bar and trapped the grass between the bar and the blade to cut the grass. They were not easy to push and all of you have seen the size of the yard where I grew up. It took hours to mow. However I did like mowing better after we got a gas powered mower than I did weeding the garden so I systematically mowed more and more area so that it would grow into grass and not be available for garden space. It is that size now since Stan moved the garden area out into the field below the barn when he moved into the house.
Oct 4, 2010
Do you have any memory of going to a big concert?
Not until after I was married. MArie and I went to one in Provo one year and I can't even remember who it was (as Marie and I talked about it we think it was the Carpenters concert that we went to). Concerts were not a part of my activity schedules through the years. There have been some that I know I probably would have enjoyed but it was never put as a line item in the budget. Loren and I basically got to attend a Lee Greenwood concert that he did for the Utah National Parks Council at our Jamboral in the year 2000. I remember him coming out and saying that he had a lot of requests for the song that made him famous and so he sang the jingle about the MacDonalds sesame seed bun that was apparently one of the first songs that he ever did. He did finally sing "God Bless the USA" toward the end of the concert.
Oct 3, 2010
Tell about any other extra-curricular activities.
I am not sure these count but I did track and field and debate. They were part of the school activities but took quite a bit of time outside of school as well. I went to track meets in the fall for cross country event and in the spring for the 1/2 mile race and sometimes as a member of a relay team. During the winter and early spring I went to debate meets, even to state one year and to band competition and drama competitions as well. I was in a couple of plays for the drama team.
Oct 2, 2010
Can you recite any of your school cheers?
Not really. I have forgotten them through the years and I am not sure I could even remember the school song even though I know we had one.
Oct 1, 2010
Did your High School have cheerleaders? What did they wear?
Yes, Duchesne High School did have cheerleaders. Serena, Wendy and LuAnn were three from my class that were always cheerleaders. The wore a white and blue cheer outfit, but I don't know how to explain them other than they were the typical blouse and skirt combination that they could easily move in while doing the cheers. I photographed them for the yearbook each year and probably still have black and white photos of them in my albums.
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