July 21, 2010

Tell about the neatest shoes you ever owned as a youth.

Sorry there wasn't such a thing. Due to a disease called "perthies" and a leg brace for several months as a child of three, I had to wear corrective shoes until I was 19 years old and even then one pair that I took on my mission were corrective shoes. So my neat shoes always looked like sunday shoes but so did everyone else's. I did have Converse All-Star shoes for gym and a pair of track shoes for races but other than that my shoes were there to keep me from walking on the sides of them. I am thnkful too for Mr Kelch that made them for me all those years for I walk in my shoes not on the sides of them now as I would have had I not had them.

July 20,2010

Share a birthday party memory.

(Here is the version from my history stories.)

15th Birthday Party.

I have had several birthday parties to remember but the first one that had left an impression far too strong to forget was my 15^th one. As many of you know it is a standard in the church to not date before you are 16 years old so this birthday was pretty important since my girlfriend and I could not date. I remember going out to do chores and coming in to change my clothes and spend the evening doing I didn’t know what. As I entered the back porch and put away the milking items and the milk I started down the steps to the basement where my room was located. Little did I know that Marie Behrmann was scurrying as fast as she could to exit through my room and out the door on the other side so that I wouldn’t see her. She had come to throw a surprise birthday party for me and before long I was surrounded by several of my friends from school and of course my only true love Marie. I only remember Marie, Serena, and Don of my friends that were there and of course my sisters but I am sure that there must have been others. I only remember playing a couple of games as well but I will always remember being told how close I had come to seeing Marie at the bottom of those steps before I was suppose to know that she was even there. We started dating after she was 16 on the 16^th of December a full year and a half later and I can’t remember if we even had a party for her but I know that now I am glad that she was willing to be my girlfriend and later my wife and eternal companion. We have both had a lot of birthdays since them and some of them with parties and I will always remember my 15^th birthday party first when I think back on them.

July 19, 2010

What was your favorite holiday of the year? Why?

Christmas of course. Because we got to get out of school and we got to have parties and we got presents and made candy and ate candy that we had made and it was just a fun time. It was also fun shopping for presents and making presents at other times when money was scarce. We had about a $1.00 that we could spend on each person so we went to the "5 and dime" store in Roosevelt for most of our shopping since it had the least expensive things in it.

July 18,2010

What did you do to stay cool?

Got into the shade of trees as often as possible. Went swimming and also went down to my basement bedroom where it was always fairly cool. Upstairs however we always had to have windows open.

July 17, 2010

Share a memory about a heatwave or drought.

I don't have any memories of such. We lived in a desert so every year was really a drought and that is why we used irrigation as the source of water for our crops. We also had a well on the farm that we used for water for the house and in the early spring before there was water in the canal we would often run dry for a couple of hours or more so we had to be careful in the use of water at that time. After the water was put into the canal it would feed the underground water streams and then we would nave no more problems with water for use at the house or the barn.

July 16, 2010

What kinds of party games or party activities were popular?

Well face cards were popular with my friends but not in my home. Mother was very set against the use of them. However Monopoly and clue were two of the games that we played a lot in my youth. That was the inside games at least. In the summer we played what are now referred to as Night Games by the youth. They included "No Bears are out tonight", "Kick the can", and "Hide and Seek". We also played Cowboys and Indians a lot then as well. The popular activities were outdoor bar-b-ques and hot dog roasting by the fire. We did a lot of that and I still enjoy it today. Dad did a lot of Dutch oven cooking as well which was always really good.

July 15, 2010

Share a memory about going on a picnic.

When you go to Stan's place in Duchesne you will find two large pine trees planted in the upper yard. One by the well and one closer to the road by the old tree with the swing. I can still remember the 4th of July that we went up indian canyon and took the permit that Dad had acquired from the Forest Service and had a picnic. It was Mom's birthday and we were going to eat sandwiches and salad that mom had made and then go find dome small trees to transplant into the yard. We ate lunch and then went looking for just the right size trees. The two we found were probably only 8 to 10 inches tall and we took a five gallon bucket of dirt with the roots so that they wouldn't die while planting them into the yard. they some awfully small trees for a lot of years and finally started to grow to whee they are now very tall and beautiful. tan brought home 4 from the forest service a couple of years later that we planted at the bottom of the garden near where Grandma's house is now located. They were awful small for several years also and regardless of how well I watered them there was one of them that died. That was actually pretty good since the other three are now also very tall and beautiful.

July 14, 2010

Tell about the first meal you ever made by yourself.

This one seems easy since from what I remember the first meal that I made by myself was for a boy scout cooking merit badge requirement.

I had to cook something from the land and so I boiled dandelions. It was not very good because I let the water boil out and so it burned on the bottom of the pan. I filled the requirement because it didn't say it had to taste real good.

July 13, 2010

Do you remember having a favorite candy? How much did it cost?




This was my favorite candy because it had wafers that could sit in your mouth and slowly dissolve. They cost about 5 cents a roll and were really good. I had a lot of other favorites too which included Life Savers but I didn't eat them only saved them in a cigar box that I have no idea where it came from.

July 12, 2010

Tell about your biggest or best catch.

Can't since I don't remember catching any big ones and i wouldn't want to brag about an 8 inch fish or whatever I might have caught.