Beneath the Wraps

Ever since we moved to Oregon I would remember passing this sign: only to pass this sign less than two yards from the one above makes me laugh each time that I pass it. Most Tri-City folk are passionate about staying Tri-City - but any mail received is going to come up Myrtle Creek.  That's just what the system pulls up by zip code. you can find all these sights when driving along Old Pacific Hwy  First Student bus yard St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Tri City Fire Department Grand Victorian Ireland Trucking Comapany refer to this p ost pizza palace taken from Google And now for the pictures you've all been waiting for (LOL) From the three "My Life in Boxes" posts: garage at rental - before the move front room at rental.  Hard to tell  Jenna's room with no drawers more of garage we first looked at this house Dec. or Feb This is our ...

            All of my life people have thought or think that I am younger than I am.   My mind finally agreed with them and has accepted myself as younger.             When people had asked me how old I was, I seriously had to stop and think about it and subtract 62 from whatever year it was.   Now I add 42 years to whatever Jenna’s age happens to be.             Before I gave birth to Jenna, I had a bad case of tendonitis – or maybe it wasn’t that bad.   My cousin Michelle had experienced something with her hands – only with her there was pain.   With me it was just numbness – like Novocain numbness.   I’ve never been paralyzed – but I did have a tingling sensation sometimes.   Mostly my fingers just felt lifeless – even after Jenna came along.     ...

     I had hired a clown the year that Jenna turned three.   Her first birthday party with friends – one redhead, five blondes, and Jenna with her dark hair.      The clown’s name was Wheeler.   Two of my boys told me that I should hire my brother-in-law, Bill – who was actually not my brother-in-law at the time.   His wife, Annaleigh had some serious health issues and she would be a priority to whatever party plans I might have made.   At the time, I wasn’t aware that he really was trying to get gigs as a professional clown.      So on Jenna’s 6 th and 9 th birthday, we had Rocko come entertain the troops.   It was on her 9 th birthday that I realized she had had a clown at her party every three years.   I jokingly asked, “ Will you have a clown at your party when you turn 12 and 15?”      She said if it were possible, she would have had...

            When we moved from Salt Lake to Myrtle Creek, I was so careful about packing boxes.   Taping the outside.   Labeling each box with room name and contents.   I saved every box after we had broken them all down.   I kept them stored in the shed.   I knew that someday we would move and perhaps we would need more boxes and seemed to add to our collection.             When we moved from Myrtle Creek to Tri-City, I wasn’t so careful.   I taped boxes and filled and closed with flaps but did not secure – nor did I relabel any of the boxes.   The house that we signed to purchase is three miles away from the house we were renting.             I haven’t felt the need to hang onto boxes anymore.   I think we left just as many boxes at the rental on Myr...

I have always loved poetry by Langston Hughes.   Soon I was reading everything I could by him or about him.   When I read “ A Pictorial History of African Americans” I read a quote he had used in reference to Harriet Tubman. I can’t seem to find the quote, but it had to do with planting apple trees.     As a child slave she was not allowed to eat apples off the trees. She said she had wanted to grow several apple trees so that she would have enough to share.   After having escaped and helping several others to escape she settled up north.   She had planted and grew apple trees on her estate in Auburn, New York.               I was fascinated by Harriet Tubman and read all I could about her.   Several years later, I remember Kayla coming home from Snow College for a visit.   She mentioned that she’d been given an assignment to do a report on a historical figure....