Christmas I Remember

The Christmas I Remember most is when we were really broke. Dad found some old toy trucks, fixed them up for my brother. Made a kitchen set from salvaged parts making cabinets for it. I remember helping him, what little I could as a young child, dad did not have the patience to work slow enough for kids to help. I know from experience that a kid helping is often more work than doing it yourself. I don't remember what I got that year I just remember working with him.  

One year we got so excited about what we might get that we opened everything on the 23rd, made Christmas day a let down. 

Hope you all had a good holiday.

Things I Remember

I remember a barn raising after a storm took the roof off.  A cattle drive to get our just bought cows from a few miles away.  A crop harvest for a farmer who was ill.  A wall phone that requires you to crank a certain way to get the person you want (one long crank, two short sort of thing). AN ice house where you put the ice you cut off the lake in the winter.  A time when calling on the phone to someone out side your town often required an operator and cost according to the distance.  A one room school house where I had first grade.  No emergency services so going to the ER ment driving fast.  Single pane windows so the frost could get to be a quarter inch or more thick.  Winters that are sooo could, I remember a winter with a wind chill hit -59 degrees.  The DNR had an orange truck that someone had to go out and run every hour, they forgot and slammed the truck door shut, hear a crack, looked out to see the snow turned orange....make truck.😉