After days and days of not getting on my blog (lack of info on my part - about my blogging address), I finally figured out what to do and the blog has some new features. Or at least, new to me. And I can click on comments and read your wonderful comments about my older blogs. What fun! Sorry I missed them before. To my children - you are all so good and complimentary to your Mother. Just made my day so bright and wonderful. Thank you very much.
I just have to comment about recipes. In the last few weeks we have been to several lectures about South American history. I have been quite impressed with the knowledge of the speakers and have said to myself that I am very dumb. I know very little about very few things. Then I started thinking about what I should learn. Well, where can you go with that? I directed my thoughts to what I am interested in - well, music for one thing - but over and over I think about how much time and how much I like reading recipes. And to think that I have passed it on to the next generation. I DO like to cook but not as much as I like to READ recipes.
Here in Nauvoo, there is a lady who has a kitchen store. It's a fun place to visit. She sells kitchen gadgets as well as dried foods, spices, candies, etc. Her husband told us she wants to open a bigger store so she can display her collection of cookbooks. She has over 2000. Oh my, I thought I had a lot. Nothing compared to her collection.
Well, when I figure out what I want to become an expert on, I will let you know.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
A Letter To My Grandchildren
July 24, 2011 - Today in Relief Society our teacher challenged us to write a letter to our grandchildren about something in our life - she suggested that we do it one thing at a time. That way our grandchildren would not have to wait until we die to know what it was like in "olden times." I decided to accept her challenge and write something.
I never saw a TV until I was about 12 years old (maybe I was older, I can't remember for sure.) Not very many people had a TV and we didn't feel we could afford one. There was only Mother and me. Remember, my father had divorced her and my two older sisters had gone with my father and his new wife. We didn't have a telephone - to save on expenses, and we didn't have a newspaper. When Mother and I would go to the movie there was a newsreel that told us about current events and there was always a Disney cartoon before the feature film.
We had a little radio about the size of the large set of Scriptures we have now. On Sunday afternoon we could listen to "The Shadow," "House of Mystery," and "The Green Hornet." We could also listen to "The Lone Ranger." Then Mother decided to buy a TV. The screen was about the size of a piece of computer paper and it was all in black and white. No color. We had two channels. My favorite TV show was "Our Miss Brooks."
The TV station signed on in the morning at 8 AM with a little song and signed off at 10 PM with the national anthem.
When I listened to the radio, I saw everything in my mind in color. But when those same programs came on TV, they were only black and white. I liked it better to listen to them on the radio when I saw everything in color.
Can you imagine watching TV in only black and white? Now everything is in living color. Have fun watching TV. Love, Grandma
I never saw a TV until I was about 12 years old (maybe I was older, I can't remember for sure.) Not very many people had a TV and we didn't feel we could afford one. There was only Mother and me. Remember, my father had divorced her and my two older sisters had gone with my father and his new wife. We didn't have a telephone - to save on expenses, and we didn't have a newspaper. When Mother and I would go to the movie there was a newsreel that told us about current events and there was always a Disney cartoon before the feature film.
We had a little radio about the size of the large set of Scriptures we have now. On Sunday afternoon we could listen to "The Shadow," "House of Mystery," and "The Green Hornet." We could also listen to "The Lone Ranger." Then Mother decided to buy a TV. The screen was about the size of a piece of computer paper and it was all in black and white. No color. We had two channels. My favorite TV show was "Our Miss Brooks."
The TV station signed on in the morning at 8 AM with a little song and signed off at 10 PM with the national anthem.
When I listened to the radio, I saw everything in my mind in color. But when those same programs came on TV, they were only black and white. I liked it better to listen to them on the radio when I saw everything in color.
Can you imagine watching TV in only black and white? Now everything is in living color. Have fun watching TV. Love, Grandma
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