Mar 15, 2010

If you went to college tell which college you chose and why?

I went to Snow College and on my mission and back to Snow college for my last year of education. I was young enough when I graduated from Duchesne High School to go a to full year of college. Snow had given me a scholastic scholarship plus Lynn and Leesa were both there that first year so it was a logical place to go. (Not counting the fact that mom graduated from there as well as Stan and Clair too.) It was a small college also and that would allow me to fit in better after having attended a small school during my youth. I liked Snow and really enjoyed the two years that I was there before graduating with an Associate of Applied Science degree in Electronics. I went to work right after school and getting married using that degree to jump start my career in TV repair and equipment maintenance. After that it was just OJT in other jobs and professions.

Mar 14, 2010

Do you remember your first pizza?

NO! I must have had it sometime but I don’t know when. In fact the first pizza’s I really remember were after my college days. You see Duchesne, Roosevelt, Vernal and Ephraim were not good places for pizza establishments because we all pretty much ate hamburgers and fries with milk shakes or drinks. I really have no idea when I had my first pizza, it was probably on my mission.

Mar 13, 2010

Did kids ever tease you and why?

I think that I have answered this question several times already just explaining other experiences like the hair cut and the physical size. Other than that I pretty much liked everyone and they must have liked me. When you start out in elementary with about 25 kids in your class and you grow up with them and graduate together all of those teasing things get over long before you get very far into school since you can’t just go and get a different set of friends. They are all your friends and really pretty good friends at that. Now we were joined in about the 8^th and 9^th grades by another 20 or so kids but we got to know them pretty quick as well and didn’t really get treated poorly by them either. I was very fortunate to have grown up with a bunch of youth that I can still call my friends today. (Some of them are even my Facebook friends now as well.)

Mar 12, 2010

What was your favorite movie and why?

As you can tell from the movie’s I remember those must have been my favorites. However my most favorite part about the movie’s that I did get to see was not the movies at all it was the Nickle Lollipops. I always bought two or three, not that I ever really liked them I just liked getting a free one every so often because the whole point of those suckers was the occasional; one that would have a free sticker inside the wrapper. I think I actually got a few of them so that was probably why I kept get them. I even remember occasional times getting a free one with a free one, now that was the real jackpot.

Mar 11, 2010

What was the first movie you ever saw and who starred in it?

I think it must have been Old Yeller. “Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Jeff York. A boy brings a yellow dog home. The dog loves the family as much as they love it.” OK so I cheated and googled the cast.How can I be expected to remember who starred in the movie I was crying to hard to remember anything but the loss of the dog. Later I saw “Where the Red fern Grows”. Another very sad dog story and I have been marred all my life because of it. I still can’t watch those movies. I also remember “Bambi”, “PollyAnna” and other tear jerkers. I needed to have seen some funny movies I guess but we were lucky to even have a movie theater in town and real lucky to get to go to a movie.

Mar 10, 2010

What radio programs or stations were your favorites?

Finally an easy question. I can only choose from one because that was the only station we could get in Duchesne or the Uintah basin for many years. It was KOMA out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Apparently the signal “skip” from back there was just perfect for the Uintah Basin. The main thing that I remember listening to also was the Dodgers baseball games. KOMA for some reason was the station that transmitted all of their games across the nation. I can’t remember listening to much else even though I most likely did since I eventually had a collection of 3 or 4 old radios that sat up in our attic for years. I was going to have a room of antiques but eventually was forced to get rid of them so the only one I got to keep was the big Zenith radio that we used in the barn to play music while we milked the cows and washed the milking tools. We even tuned into Greenwich time clock with it and listened to the tick tock of the station which is all it did except on the minute when it would say the time. Now that was fun only because of the novelty of being able to do it due to the age and bandwidth selectors of that radio and the fact that the signal from there must have also had the perfect skip.

Mar 09, 2010

Tell of a difficult or term paper assignment.

What, I can’t remember anything like that, I put all of those bad memories to rest a long time ago. Here again I believe the poor author of these questions must have had a pretty bad experience in school or watched a lot of other sweating out assignment given by her in class. I really do not remember the essays even though I do know that I had plenty of them to write and was never very good at it, especially the English part of it as you can tell evidenced by my writing skills here. In fact I hope you teachers in my family will please give e a little slack and if I ever am tempted to publish these stories I only ask that one of you do the corrections before it goes to press. (Either that or talk me out of it.)

Answering these questions has been like trying to write a term paper so maybe it is coming back to haunt me for not learning how to do it way back then.

Mar 08, 2010

When on car trips, did you play car games?

Wow I really don’t remember anything other than asking or listening to someone else ask “Are we there yet?” or “How much longer?” I am sure we must have done some games but the thing I really remember best is being squashed into the car. With 7 children plus mom and dad there wasn’t much room to move so most of the time I sat there as the second youngest squashed between two other siblings. Mom and dad in this day and age would have had to by a bus to put in enough car or booster seats. They would also have had to install a lot more seat belts, Oh wait, there were no seat belts, period, until I was in High school.

Mar 07, 2010

What was the naughtiest or meanest thing you remember doing in school? Were there consequences?

Wow the author of these questions must have had a pretty bad childhood since so many of the questions are asking about negative things dealing usually with behavior. Maybe the author is really a retired school teacher as well. The only naughty thing that I probably did in school was pull the girl’s hair or something like that. I really couldn’t be bad since I knew that my mother was an employee of the school and was not very far away at any given moment. While I was in grade school she was a teacher there and when in High school she was the librarian and taught occasional classes. Dad was also an employee of the school district for most of my school days even though he wasn’t always around the ones in Duchesne he knew all of the faculty at each of the schools so I really didn’t want to draw negative attention there either. For the most part though I was probably never in trouble because I had been taught to respect the teachers and faculty and to be good. The biggest reason however was most likely because I was the smallest kid, other than Ralph Mecham, and I had received my only beating in 6^th grade and didn’t care to repeat it.

Mar 06, 2010

Tell about how you spent your Sundays.

Sunday had a little more standard routine. We got up and milked the cows before going n and taking a shower and going to Priesthood meeting at 9 AM. We would then stay until 10 and go to Sunday school until about noon as I recall. We would go home for the afternoon and basically take a nap and then get up around 5 pm and milk the cows before going in and cleaning up, getting dressed and going to Sacrament meeting at 7 PM until 8:30 PM or so. We would then go home and have supper, usually the bread and milk I have talked about earlier or onions and salt with the bread and milk. Sometimes I would go with dad on his High Council assignments to the various small wards in the Stake so getting home would be a little later and leaving for Sacrament meeting, the few times that I went at night, a little earlier. Once in a while we would also have Family home Evening after getting home from Sacrament meeting. Most of our FHE’s were on Monday nights.