Feb 12, 2010

Tell about the Valentine Day festivities at your school.

Duchesne had one tradition that I remember about Valentines and I hated it because I just couldn’t ever make a winning Valentines Box to put on my desk so everyone could put their valentines to me into it. We had a lot of long nights prior to Valentines writing every girl’s name in the class on a special valentine even when I really didn’t like the girl at all anyway. Oh well it was a tradition and you have to go along with traditions. I must admit it was much easier when Marie started getting them from me. However I think more than Valentines from her were the love noted in shorthand that she would give me and then make me figure out what they said. I did like those notes.

Feb 11, 2010

Who was your first girlfriend?

I can’t really say I had a girlfriend quite as soon as I actually thought I did since I don’t know if any of the first three even thought about me. However I did like Ione Hooper, LeaAnn Weber (pronounced Webber) then Karla Lewis. I think LeaAnn liked me more than I liked her in that relationship and I was 12 when I liked Karla, I remember that because I use to get her folks fast offering route and got to go to her place always hoping she would answer the door. It was shortly after that when I first saw Marie and then they all just vanished from my thoughts because she was so darn cute and very pretty also and I fell head over heels for her.

Feb10, 2010

What was your favorite meal as a child?

I think I related that my favorite meal was bread and milk after sacrament meeting. That was my favorite but not my only one. I loved steak, corn on the cob and baked potatoes.

Mashed potatoes came in pretty close after that but I the taste of the baked potato skin with real butter dripping out the end was really a great taste as far as I was concerned. Those kind of baked potatoes have given way to microwave baked and the skins just never get crispy and hard enough to scrape the potato put of them and then replace it with the butter to eat. Yes that was truly some darn good eatin.

Feb 9, 2010

Tell about a big lie you told.

I am sure I told probably many a lie in my youth but I am blessed to not be able to remember very many in fact I can only think of one right at this moment. My family went over to Price for some reason one day to shop. I remember seeing some glitter that was really neat so I stole it, yes I stole it and got away with it so I thought but the memory of it has haunted me through the years. I was never able to right it because that was the only time we went shopping in Price and I couldn’t even tell you the store or anything about it. That I guess was a lie because I never did fess up to it to my parents. In fact I doubt whether they even ever knew about it but I knew and it has always stuck with me.

Feb 8, 2010

Tell about another influential person in your life.

There were many very influential people in my as I was growing up and my Grandparents also took a very high role in that. Yet another person of whom I have referred to many times over the years when working with scouts was Sister Beverly Caldwell. Beverly moved to Duchesne with her husband Lowell and family the year that I was a senior in high school. She was somehow alerted to the fact that I was not an Eagle Scout and that the whole reason was because I couldn’t swim, remember the near drowning early in my life, anyway she saw to it that I learned to swim. She was a professional lifeguard and took me personally swimming in Starvation Reservoir, and the Roosevelt and Price pools. She spent a lot of time with me those summer days before my 18^th birthday. I had a 7 day a week job from 10 pm to 6 am and we would go swimming just after I finished the chores in the morning or early in the evening before I would have to return to work. I completed those merit badges, swimming and lifesaving, and passed the Eagle Board of Review just 4 days prior to my birthday. I know to this day I would not have been an Eagle Scout without her love and dedication.

Feb 7, 2010

Tell about someone who had a big influence in your life.

When I think about an answer to this question the obvious best first answer was my Mother and Father. However other than them I must write that the Hansen’s were very high on the list. First Sister Hansen was my first Cub Scout Leader and I spent a lot of hours in her home with Doug and Don, her sons, for many years after that because of the relationship I had built with their family at that time. The just a few years later after cub scouts I was lucky enough to have Ray Hansen as my scoutmaster for a couple of years and as a caring friend for many years after that. He was one of the major driving factors in getting me to my Eagle Rank in scouting. That was why Loren had the middle name of Ray, in honor of my scoutmaster.

Feb 6, 2010

Who was the most famous person you ever met as a child?

I was never lucky enough I guess to meet anyone famous as a youth. I saw General authorities come to Stake Conferences but do not ever remember meeting any of them at the time. Of course later in my early adulthood I met Pres. Harold B Lee. I didn’t put that into my earlier post since I had forgotten about it until I started thinking about my mission again. We did as missionaries meet in the upper room of the Salt Lake Temple where Pres. Lee spoke to us and answered questions that we had. I only shook his hand for a brief moment but it was a special moment.

Feb 5, 2010

How did you first smash a finger?

First of all I want to know how the author knew I had smashed my finger, does everybody do it sometime? If that is the case then I don't feel so spastic after all.

There are two possible answers to this question since I can remember smashing fingers plenty of times but have no idea the order in which they happened. However other than the smashing fingers with the hammer trick that I do very well all too often I think the actual fist finger smashing had to have been when I shut the car door from the outside (standing outside that is) and left my finger in harms way and that was where it ended up, right in harms way between the door and the frame of the door in one of our cars. (Seems like it was the old Nash but I can’t be sure of that at all. Anyway it was a real stinger and hurt for some period of time longer than a mere few minutes. Seems like it must have hurt for several days at best.

Feb 04, 2010

Do you have any knowledge of the origins of your family name?

My grandfather was George Alma Poulson,

His father was John Christian Poulson who came from Denmark. I do not have nay information beyond that point. I have a lot of information on my grandmother’s line but not grandpa’s. Therefore I have no idea whether Paul was made into Poulson somewhere along the line. Maybe even before Great Grandfather and mother came to America.

Feb. 03, 2010

Share a memory about a weather-related school cancellation.

I cannot remember a school cancellation due to weather. I suppose we could have had one but the worst thing that happened due to weather was the snow storm that caused us to have to walk a half mile to the bus. That story was related on Jan. 30, 2010 in this blog.

We had some pretty good storms when I was young and I remember walking to the barn with the snow near my shoulders as a little boy but remember I was pretty small so a foot of snow could have been pretty deep to me. Mostly the main thing that the snow did for us was to blow across the bench and create huge drifts over the cedar trees along the edge of the hill. That then created some great places to dig and have snow caves since the snow would go over the trees and under the trees would be bare ground. Those caves were a lot of fun, probably more fun had we gotten to miss school for it but that just didn’t happen that I can recall.