Hey friends,
Hope yall have had a beautiful Sabbath.
We went to town today to load up on pine bark mulch and more soil for
our big raised garden bed. I've started cleaning some of it out- old carrots mostly and want to plant beets to hopefully pickle a few. After the garden bed was first built we had it filled with a whole dump truck load of soil from the river bottoms. . I just knew that soil was gonna be the cream to the crop. It was so black and rich looking. Man was I wrong. It made good filler but the plants
need so much nutrition .... I guess the river maybe washed all the nutrients out... is that possible? I dunno but another friend of ours got a load as well and basically planted her whole garden in that. It all pretty much croaked for her. It's very silty. Mine has done okay but I loaded the top layer up with other garden soil mixes. Today we bought more to add to it and walkin in the farm store I saw that four pack of strawberry Crush. It brings back sooooooooo many memories. If you're anywhere near my age... it surely does you too. Us kids back in those days didn't drink sodapop in place of a glass of water as many kids do now. It was a treat. I want to say it cost maybe a nickel? Is that right? I do know chico stix and a pack of sunflower seeds were each a nickel. Separate pieces of candy were all a penny.
Does this take you back as well? Oh man.....
who wants a moonpie?
Funny how something can spark a matchful of memories.
I'd gather empty, glass soda bottles until I got enough to take back to the grocery
store for hard cash. I was rich yall! :) I bet some of you did that too. I'd scour the ditches and grab every bottle I could find and it really would add up! Some kids would just go buy candy. Not me!
I'd save all my money... and then on a special day I'd take some of that hard earned cash and
ride my banana bike to the Red Owl and buy fruit. Yes fruit! Green grapes and bing cherries. Ohhhh yeah baby! Momma
hardly ever bought fruit and I loved it so much !!! It was my popbottle treat!
Cheers to the good ole days!
Until we meet again..
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4 comments:
My memories are pretty much the same. We rarely had soda. My allowance was .50 a week and I’d save it up to buy gerbils or hamsters. In all my years at home we ate out maybe twice. I know one for sure. I had a blue banana bike and I rode it 3 1/2 miles one way into town so I could go swimming in the cement pond. For that .50 a week I had to work too, I didn’t get it for sitting around watching our small black and white tv..which by the way had aluminum foil wrapped around its antenna. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Good morning Lea, I don't know what it is but I am finding myself looking back on things when I was young...memories...maybe it's an age thing or just with all the crazy stuff going on in the world, it's nicer to look back on fond memories and cheery things!!
Thank you for sharing your memories.
God Bless
Dawn, your memories ... it sure was a simpler life back then wasn't it? Our rabbit ears were wrapped in tin foil too. I'm so glad we got to live back then. I wouldn't trade now from then for anything.
Jeanie, I bet your life growing up in Scotland was different from ours?
There is much of back then that I just miss.
The simplicity I guess... carefree... I've been thinking about it more too. Maybe it is an age thing as you said. Looking back to see where we've been. Alot of people I know start searching for their roots.. ancestory and tracing back great great grandparents etc. Some travel to find where their kinfolk lived. I'm with you on cheerier things!
Blessings to you as well...
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