I can't believe it's Thursday already. Time to post progress on my CHS stocking. I am almost embarrassed by my lack of stitching this week.
I had to write a paper on,"Were we better off in 1920 rather than 1980?" Since I was born in the early 60's, twenty-five years earlier than my fellow students. I have a little more first hand experience than they do. I have seen plenty of changes so far in my lifetime. My girls have not had the pleasure of listening to a record player or 8-track tape. They never talked on a telephone party line,watched a black/white TV,or detasseled corn for a summer job. Company computers use to take up a whole room, you could not afford to buy a personal computer and car phones came in a portable box. Boy, do I feel old!
Last week one of the students asked the professor if he had one of those ugly polio marks on his arm. He replied he was not old enough to have a mark then he looked at me. Speaking before thinking, I said I do have one, but is not on my arm. That was probably TMI because I heard a few snickers. Then I could hear them gossiping in the background, "How old is she anyway?" lol!!!! Then I felt really old. I knew I should have taken this class online.
Last week one of the students asked the professor if he had one of those ugly polio marks on his arm. He replied he was not old enough to have a mark then he looked at me. Speaking before thinking, I said I do have one, but is not on my arm. That was probably TMI because I heard a few snickers. Then I could hear them gossiping in the background, "How old is she anyway?" lol!!!! Then I felt really old. I knew I should have taken this class online.
It is mushroom season in Indiana. It is quite the contest with the men around here on who can find the most and earns bragging rights for the next year. You can almost smell the testosterone. Mushrooms sell for $18 a pound. Ridiculous! I would rather have shrimp or lobster or both. My dh loves when mushroom season rolls around. Not me, I like to eat them but I do not like to hunt them. It seems like I come home with more than mushrooms(ie-poison ivy or ticks). No thank you. This weekend there will be a festival at Mansfield. They have a contest on who brings in the most or the biggest. Vendors come to sell a few crafts and antiques. I like to go just to walk around and enjoy the day.
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Hey, any progress IS progress! YGG! Are you doing the satin stitch? I was going to cheat and just do straight Xs.
Are those mushrooms in your second photo? They are funky lookin' 'shrooms!! My family loves mushrooms but they totally skeeve me.
LOL about the class-I can only imagine! I give you credit for just having the courage to take the class with all the young'uns.
I had to laugh out loud about the mushrooms and I understand totally, just yesterday as I was walking to get my kids from school a little old man came out from the woods I was walking by and nearly scared me to bits...and he had to stop me and show me his morel. "Look how big this beauty is!" he exclaimed...I told my huband later last evening that men over compensate for other things by trying to find the LARGEST morel! LOL! :)
I was born in 1970 and I remember talking on party lines, watching black and white tv and I had a corn detasseling job! So you're not old...cause I don't feel old...yet! :) One thing I can say is: today's parents don't make their kids "work" to learn the value of a penny or respect themselves for a job well done. I plan on my kids knowing what it takes to earn a dollar...that's how I was raised and makes me value my education and our money more....I'm scared for a lot of kids to be honest, some just don't seem to "get it".
I'm really sorry for laughing about the age story, but you're a funny girl :o) I know how you feel and you're *even older* than I am LOL.
Love the look of those mushrooms! Love mushrooms. Sorry.
Hey, and you made great and beautiful progress on your stocking, esp. compared to mine. Which was ZERO.
Nice progress on the stocking! I probably should have explained better -- Kathy said to go all the way across the stocking with the satin stitch and then work your way back. But this works too! lol! Funny story about the class. Isn't it true -- they think you're so ancient! Nice mushrooms too!
Great post!
I'm one of those with the polio vaccine scar on my tush. I hope the kids realize what an incredible thing that vaccine is.
I never did the detasseling thing, even though my husband is a corn breeder. Every summer, for the past 30 years, that's what he does, as well as making the crosses. I counted a ton of Japanese beetles and potato beetles for research projects though! Ick!
Girl, at least you got some progress this week, with your schedule, I know that wasn't easy! Hope you get an A on that essay!!
Have fun in Mansfield this weekend, wow, great weather for it too!
What those kids in your class don't know is people will be asking the same thing about them, sooner then the pin hits the floor!:)
You're making some progress on the stocking and that is a good thing! Wish it was mushroom season around here - we love them, although I don't think I'd want to pick them. And about the class and your thoughts about TV, computers, etc., that really brought a smile to my face because I was just telling my kids almost the same things you were telling your class. Makes us sound like really old farts doesn't it!
LOL--I've gone back for a 2nd degree. I was born in 55, and I remember all those things. And you know what--let them laugh or gossip. (I mostly find them fun, although sometimes the kids are tedious, and Lord are they spoiled.) There are a lot of things they haven't gone through yet--marriage, divorce, death of a parent or a spouse...we know a lot more than they think we do--the deep-down important stuff...
Loving the stocking!
How do you know you aren't picking a poison mushroom though? I can spot a clam in a sandbar and know if it's ok to eat, but I've never picked a mushroom!
Very interesting about the mushrooms! I had no idea that such a festival existed or that hunting was an event!
I do have one of those marks on my arm. I was a nontraditional student, too, and went to classes pregnant as well! Don't let them make you feel old. We all age.
it wasn't polio. it was smallpox! Yes, I go back that far!
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