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- Back in 1967 I needed a job to help pay for radio school. My mom suggested I ask a family friend about working for him in his flower shop. It was a family florist owned and operated by two brothers and their sister. It wasn't the biggest in town,...
- What are your favorite Christmas songs and carols?
- Halloween is passed. The aroma of yesterday's Thanksgiving dinner lingers throughout the house. It's time for the magic. The magic of Christmas!Forests of trees have grown in vacant lots around town. The forests are lighted by strings of bare light...
- Halloween is passed. The aroma of yesterday's Thanksgiving dinner lingers throughout the house. It's time for the magic. The magic of Christmas! Forests of trees have grown in vacant lots around town. The forests are lighted by strings of...
- First, let me tell you I'm not a deer hunter. I helped my dad cut up too many of them to want to kill one. But, I married into a deer hunting family and one year they invited me to go on a deer hunting trip. The company my father-in-law worked...
- One of my mom's favorite activities was ceramics. She made all kinds of things,,animal and human figures, napkin holders, plaques, buildings and more. She made a large Nativity scene for herself and smaller sets for my sisters and me. You'll see...
- When I was growing up in the late 40s and early 50s, milk came in clear glass bottles. There was little or no labeling on the bottles themselves and people had to identify what was in the bottle by the color of the aluminum cap at the top. ...
- I've been thinking about family Christmas traditions. They were never thought of as traditions. They were just things that were done every Christmas without even thinking about them. I guess the longest lasting tradition was the Christmas stocking....
- I will be posting old Christmas cards in the photo section from time to time. Many of them will be older than you are. The first one has been posted. Hope you enjoy them.
- Thanksgiving is a little over 2 weeks away and then the Christmas season will begin in spite of what all the stores are doing now. Let's start, now, to go through the family albums and find those treasured photographs of Christmases past. Dig deep...
- As I've driven through neighborhoods around my part of town, I've seen the annual ritual of pecan picking,,,all types of people, young and old picking pecans off the ground, some digging in the fallen leaves, and others thrashing the trees with cane...
- I was in the hospital for a day and a half last week with a painful, swollen right leg. It was very red and weeping to the point it soaked a hand towel. Doctors diagnosed it as a strep infection and proceeded to give me intravenous antibiotics...
- A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween night, when behind him he hears Bump...Bump..Bump. Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright coffin bouncing it's way down the middle of the street...
- While I was working in Little Rock, Arkansas, our store dressed up for Halloween. I decided to dress up as my true self,,,the devil.(you can see the makeup in the photo section) My boss got a kick out of it and asked if I could visit his son who...
- One of my favorite memories of Halloween was while I was living in an apartment is a small town. I decided to give the kids in the complex a real scare. I put a pole lamp filled with three red light bulbs next to the door and I had a Halloween...