Beneath the Wraps

                 During the course of our blogs, my brother and I have both mentioned how our growing up years may have seemed idealistic – how our share of problems pale in comparison to countless others.  I don’t relate to dysfunctional families and am highly grateful for that.  As I looked around the room during Relief Society yesterday I noticed each one of the sisters (or most of them) had been a part of a dysfunctional family either in childhood or parenthood – sometimes both I felt a sense of sadness.  I don’t/didn’t wish to appear like I was boasting with my “unexpected answer to prayer” example compared to great struggles and hardships of others.          I am GRATEFUL to be an oddball.   The closest I have come to experiencing the dysfunctional thing has been on the outside seeing a glimpse of Biff’s challenges and his in-laws.   I hadn’t thought of them as dysfunctional but there ...

               When I was in seminary each student received a package of 40 scripture cards for at least three years. I managed to save 120 of the cards.   The red cards were part of a package I had received in my freshman year, green doctrine and covenants cards recived in my sophomore year and blue Book of Mormon cards in my junior year.   I don’t have old testament cards.   That doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist.   I really don’t remember one way or the other.             Cards offered key words for reference and memorization.   I hadn’t memorized them all.   There are some I still remember.   Sometimes we were challenged to carry our scriptures to all of our classes.   Sometimes we were told the scripture cards would be sufficient.   Thus I started punching holes to carry on a large ring binder.   I don’t know how I was able to save the...

             I continue to receive emails from a booster program that prepares young mind to navigate into the real world.   I created a post for it 10 years ago and notice that some of my links are now obsolete. Our time spent at JA City ( here ) took place approximately six months before our move to Oregon.   Thus not only do I live in another state than the said activities but my child is now 20 years old.   I finally hit the unsubscribe button.   Hopefully it worked.

                 We passed a horrific accident returning home from the ward luncheon.  I don’t know how many people were involved or how many hurt.  I saw a stretcher out by a car in the ditch.  Ahead was a van all smashed up.  It had to have been going pretty fast to have been that smashed up – or perhaps it had been the other car that hit on the way to the ditch (I guess I don’t even know what direction the ditch car was facing)             We had to slow down as we passed.   Tears formed in my eyes.   I don’t know what happened.   I would guess it could have been prevented.   I feel bad for the victims.   I hope things will be resolved and health will be restored.

                 Doris Day and Rock Hudson made a few movies together including “Send Me No Flowers” which I had mentioned in my last post and “Pillow Talk” which is the segue into the topic of this post. 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! #16 mentions the party line which is not something that took place in our home but I did know of neighbors who had party lines.  I don’t know why some neighbors had them and some didn’t.  “Pillow Talk” gave me the impression that it was more common than not and yet I really didn’t know that many people who had them.           In “Pillow Talk” the solution worked out by the characters was to make or accept phone calls within a half hour time.   One could take the hour until half past while the other used the phone half past until the hour.   I don’t know that either of our neighbors had worked out anything.   I ...

  Dave Willock played the part of a milk man in 1964’s “Send Me No Flowers”.   I’d forgotten the now obsolete profession.   I don’t remember the milk man but I do remember the milk box that lived outside our door for years.   Once a week it was magically filled with four quarts of milk that we would take from box to fridge.   I remember having pulled out the heavy glass bottles and placing them in our fridge.   I think it had been delivered by Winder Dairy.   When we finished our milk we would return the empty milk drop container and they would be picked up when the next delivery was made.   I don’t know how old I was when we started picking up plastic jugs of milk because the four quarts were no longer enough.   Eventually the delivery stopped and the milk man was gone.   You can read more history at this site .

  In the 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! YouTube video there was mention of a record player and the speeds features for various record players.   I remember the different speeds mentioned and the record sizes.   I also remember a 16 speed (not mentioned) but never saw a record for that speed.   I barely remember the 78, 33 and 78 records had holes in the middle to fit over the piece in the middle of the turn table. But the 45 speed or singles had a larger hole which required an adapter.     I remember having red plastic circles but did not use myself as someone had brilliantly invented an entire tube to fit over the stem and so the hold would fit in place over the tube.   I had created this post in 2015 and thought there was another that gave indication to my first phonograph and stereo.   Must have been a page I had created for a memory scrapbook. Perhaps an entry for another post?