TERRY
Terry was awake when I woke up at 8:00. She is currently reading the paper. Yesterday she slept much of the day so I am guessing today she will be awake most of the day. Just one day at a time like I say.
Carol Anderson, the brains behind the school reunion, sent some pictures. Below is Carol and Mary Skroch. Mary was a teacher at Marboe School and Carol, my age, was a student.
This is kind of picture day
This is the kind of TV tray most of us had at home. I am guessing they came in a package of 4 and maybe they were $29 or so. Well some things have changed as you can see below!
Well I am thinking IF you are fashionable you may NEED one of these. However IF you NEED one you may not have much left in your bank account! From the WSJ of course. I am SURE, for the common gal, IF you bought one of these it would most likely be empty! BUT then you could tell the whole world how fashionable you tend to be and that is important, right?????
I had an interesting day yesterday. I had an appointment for the car at the Honda dealership 8 miles to the north. They said it would take 3.5-4 hours. It included an oil change, a tire rotation and 4 recall items that needed to be done. I arrived at 7:30 for my 7:40 appointment. They said they would give me a ride home. So I arrived home at about 8:30 and finally got a call at 3:45 that they were on their way to pick me up. Everything was taken care of and the total cost was for the rotation only so 6 hours of work for $30 was not a bad deal. On the way home there was a strange noise and I thought to myself did they do something that was not right. Then as I glanced to my right I noticed the rear AC was on! They must have taken it out for a test drive!
Being this is the day of the Bergen/Wood Lake reunion and I am NOT there here is a little of history!
And the answer to that is we ALL used the same cup!!! In the background you can see the boys and the girls toilets.
While playing during recess the pump outside near the school was the go to water. Once the teacher stepped outside and rang the bell for the end of recess everyone hurried to get one last drink! The bottom picture is what we had in school. I mean IF you work so so hard at your studies you would need a drink often or was it just a matter of wanting to get up from your desk? For me I will not confess.
I do remember being bored much of the time in school. Talking to another student was a no no but it was hard to resist so when I got caught, and it was often, the punishment was usually write a sentence so many times. Maybe by the 3rd or 4th time in the week it got up to 500 times!!! It usually was something like "I will not talk during class time". Well it kind of became a game. When I was done with my work which was usually most of the time I would get out paper and write sentences and If I was assigned to do that I could just sit around and day dream and then later hand in the sentences! As I think about it I wonder why the teacher did not catch on? But of course there were 12 students in 8 grades so the teacher was kind of busy much of the time. Wood Lake School closed in May of 1956. So I went from having ONE classmate and 12 students in the room to having 11 classmates and 24 in the room in Cayuga as 3rd and 4th grade were together in the basement room. A causality of my Wood Lake Education was my spelling! Never did we learn to sound out words. We had a spelling book and memorizing was so easy for me so I just memorized the words and got 100% all the time. It did not help that I had the same spelling book for 2nd and 3rd grade. Anyway that is my story and I am sticking to it. Needless to say the computer has been a wonderful friend with words being changed as well as spell check.
Enough for today. I need some exercise so it will be the bike for a while.
The FP is gone and it was delicious this morning.
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