A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....11-01-02

Billie

[ST.LOUIE1]

ant and grasshopper

Now that's funny!!!

[ST.LOUIE1]

Take care, Sis! Hope to see you later. : )

[JustAmy]

I'll check in when I get home.
Goodnight All.

[Dubya]

Thanks for the ping. Keep up the good work.

[LadyX]

Sorry I wasn't around before to see your posts, Louie-Louie.

Every now and then I do actually cook!
Tonight it was salmon loaf, potatoes au gratin, and peas.

Back in the saddle for the evening ~ ~ ~

Where's Nan? Cooking chicken livers or sumpin'??

[WVNan]

Hey Lady. I've been around, but it seems like I'm about the only one. It's been really quiet around here.

[LadyX]

And then I vanished!
My sister is back at her home in Florida and wanted to catch up on everything.
Let's start a thread about 'Things Those over 60 Surely Remember' ~ ~ ~

Like: "I bet your mother was the first to try Duz !!
And then Vel - -

And the answer to what were they is: _______?

[LadyX]

And then sing the jingle!!

[GailA]

Closing the night with another graphic for our men and women in service to our country.

[LadyX]

During WWII, Gail, I actually purchased on Fridays war stamps for ten cents to place in my war bond book.
Most children then did so to support the effort!
The value, when filled, grew to $25 - a fortune in those days..:)))

[WVNan]

Laundry detergent

[WVNan]

I filled many a book of war stamps. I don't know what ever became of them. Probably cashed them in for college money.

[LadyX]

Wasn't it a thrill to have detergents after the Ivory Snow years?
We take so many convenience and improved things for granted.

Didn't have television, (generally speaking), or plastics until after WWII either!!
Note: I appeared on television in 1947, representing Florida in the National Spelling Bee - the first year it was televised!

[WVNan]

Ivory Snow? Try Grandma's lye soap. Ivory Snow was an improvement. LOL.

[WVNan]

BTW, how did you do in the spelling bee? Television was sure different back then eh?

[Humidston]

(What is this? -- The geriatric thread??? LOL!)

Hey, I remember war stamps too! Every week my brother and I greedily collected/earned every penny we could in order to buy our stamps on Friday.

He (bro) also collected foil and rolled it into a large ball - to be turned in for the war effort.

And that heavenly victory garden in our back yard!! Nothing better than a fresh-pulled carrot, complete with dirt, for the best eating.

[GailA]

I'll say it was..I read about the victory gardens, the rationing, etc. But can't imagine the scope of what you had to go through.

[Aquamarine]

[LadyX]

Laughing at your message in a bottle!
Was engrossed in doing odds and ends of laundry since no one was answering for a time!

Guess we are the Geriatrics at that, Humidston, and proud of it - we survived, didn't we?!

In the spelling bee, I had just turned 13 that month and placed 22nd, actually.
Unlike some, I hadn't trained for a year - just a month.
My first and last names had 13 letters - was 13 - missed in the 13th round on a 13-letter word!
Just wasn't my day..:)))

I used to go around my neighborhood in Coral Gables, Florida during WWII with Tommy and his little red wagon, and we collected scrap metal and newspapers - and yes, it was my job to cut off the ends of the tin cans and flatten them to turn in!

Gail, rationing was the pits - gasoline, butter, sugar, coffee, etc., and shoes - only 4 pairs per year per person.
Many mothers sacrificed some of theirs for the feet of growing children.
It was the height of pride to have the toes cut out of tennis shoes - holes in the soles of leather shoes self-patched, etc.

Patriotism was unlike anything seen since; even since 9/11.

Boy, would it have been nice to have e-mail - except security these days is shot.
Then, ALL mail going to or from military was heavily censored - anything sensitive blacked out by the hand of the censor.

[WVNan]

LOL. It wasn't Friday the 13th was it? Again, Lady, we remember the same things. Flattening the tin cans, collecting paper and magazines in the wagon hauled all over the neighborhood. Rationing of course. I still have my ration books left over from 45. Remember how our dads had to patch the innertubes in the tires? When did tires stop having inner tubes?