Strangely enough I cannot remember ever having a bat in the house because there were sure plenty of them in the barn and flying around outside at night. I remember watching them as they would swoop this way and that catching the mosquitos and other flying bugs that were ever present around our place. I only remember hearing that one got tangled in someones hair only once and now I can't remember who it was or if it really was an event.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010
Relate a story about a mouse in the house.
That one is easy since we always had mice in the house. They were in the house when Pee Wee (our dog) and Smokey (our cat) were not even allowed in the house. Of course mom didn't want the mice in there either but they came in under the old foundation and always found a way in through several areas of the basement. When I was living in the basement there was a bookshelf next to the wall between the bedroom and the study room. There was about a 2 inch gap at the bottom between the shelf and the wall. I discovered that it was their favorite place to get into my bedroom so I started placing a trap right there against the wall, it had no bait but it didn't matter since they would run into the room, over the trap, and that would make me have to empty another dead mouse from out of the house. I caught over a dozen in one day using that method. I was only able to control the mice but never totally get rid of them since they came in from outside from the fields but at least it was a lot easier to catch them that way then with adding bait to the trap.
Oct 10. 2010
What was the strangest thing you ever saw in the sky?
Two comets. We lived outside of town and had no yard light unless we turned the one on in the front of the barn where it shown so we could play basketball, well shoot hoops since it is pretty hard to bounce a ball on loose dirt which was in front of the barn. There were only a couple of months in the summer though when we didn't have to turn on any lights but most of the time when we did need lights we just turned on the ones inside of the barn or garage. Well one night as I was just out in front of the barn I thought I saw a plane coming in to land at the airport which was p on the bench just a mile or so from the house. I was use to seeing planes fly over even though it was somewhat occasional. That night however it didn't quite look right as it approached since it was going way to fast and it had only one light. As it went over the area between the house and the barn I thought for sure that it was low enough to hit into the ground above the hill. I raced across the canal bridge and up the hill only to find no trace of it. Well the next day on the radio it was reported that it had hit somewhere in Wyoming . It might have been Montana I don't recall right now anyway it was a long way from where I thought it would hit. Later in another summer I was on a tractor mowing the football field at the Altamont High School when I happened to glance up and another comet caught my attention in the middle of the day. What was really odd about that one is it seemed to go between the earth and a plane flying overhead. It was reported the next day that it had indeed gone under the plane.
Oct 9, 2010
What was your most prized possession as a child?
A blanket made and given to me by Grandma Poulson. It had a basic yellow color to it on the one side and a whole bunch of 2 inch blocks on the other. It was warm and it was from Grandma. I still have that blanket today even though it is showing it's age it is still basically in one piece.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Oct 7, 2010
Do you have some good advice for me?
This blog could go on forever but I will make it short. Be true to the gospel, love your spouse and children, work hard, pay tithing first, play hard, go to bed early, get up early, listen to good music, read the scriptures daily, ponder daily, count your blessings daily and thank your Father in Heaven for all he gives to you daily. There are many more but that will do for now.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Oct 6, 2010
If you ever played in the leaves, tell about it.
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.
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.
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