SIDEBAR #18- Arias/Alexander forum

[Zuri]

I don't know if you all have experience the joys of Autocorrect on your smart devices.


I texted my 22 year old daughter that I drank one of her Mikes Hard Lemondae. Well it changed it to Mikes hard *n Lemonade. OMG WTH :banghead:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Wanted to share this with you all - since we are talking about growing up in the '50s, as I did!!

A Stroll Through Time...

Remember when?? I still do!!

If you are old enough… take a stroll with me… close your eyes… and go back… before the internet… before semi-automatics and crack… before SEGA or Super Nintendo… way back…

I’m talkin’ about hide and go seek at dusk, sittin’ on the porch, Simon Says, Kick the Can, Red Light-Green Light. lunch boxes with a thermos… chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, Jacks, Mother May I? Hula hoops and sunflower seeds, Whist and Old Maid and Crazy Eights, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Janes, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the name of cities on the bottom, running through the sprinkler, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty… all in black & white.

When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, climbing trees, making forts… backyard shows, lemonade stands, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, sittin’ on the curb, staring at clouds, jumping down the steps, jumping on the bed, pillow fights, getting “company”, ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to church, walking to the movie theater, being tickled to death, running until you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, being tired from playin’… Remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back… paper chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington… the smell of paste in school and Evening in Paris. What about the girl that had the big bubbly handwriting who dotted her “i’s” with hearts? The Stroll, popcorn balls, and sock hops… Remember… when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly uniforms. When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus. When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday and wore high heels. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And, you didn’t pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed… and did! When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum. And the prom was in the auditorium and we danced to an orchestra, and all the girls wore pastel gowns and the boys wore suits for the first time and we stayed out all night. When a ’57 Chevy {I had one!!}was everyone’s dream car… to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail polish so it would fit her finger.

And no one ever asked where the car keys were cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key. Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like “That cloud looks like a…” And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was a game! Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And… with all our progress… don’t you just wish… just once… you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace… and share it with the children of the ’80s, '90s, '00s and ’10s…

So who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk… as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike riders, playing in the cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to the pool… and eating Kool-Aid powder out of the envelope.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, YEAH! I remember that!!

{and again Thank you all for the birthday wishes - you all are a great bunch!!!}

:seeya:

December Bride, Paton Place, Outer Limits, Jack Benny, Arther Godfrey, Red Skelton,The George Gobel Show (my dad would work on his and Love That Bob, Bill Cummings planes), I've Got A Secret, The Millionaire, The Ann Southern Show, 77 Sunset Strip and Kookie Kookie lend me your comb, Ronald Reagan and Death Vally Days and twenty mule team Borax. I remember watching Queen Elizabeth's Coronations. There are so many....

Remember the little wax bottles with syrup in them? Candy Cigarettes and Bubblegun Cigars? Big Hunks, Charms Suckers and sometimes you won another sucker? Cinnamon toothpick, and Jolly Rancher Firesticks, and my favorite to this day Atomic Fireballs. Backjack, Clove, Juicy Fruit, Doublement, and Spearmint gum. I loved Snowballs and French Pastry.

Ah Evening in Paris and Shalimar and Old Spice for men, Sweetheart soap, Jergen hand lotion,and visits from the Avon lady. My mother wore Maybelline mascara in the little red box.

We lived with my great grandmother off and on between the times two twenty year old had four kids between 1949 and 1952 and she was the best cook ever. She had a boardinghouse during the depression and she raised my mother and her brother after their mother died when she was four and he was six months old .

She got up every morning at five and made biscuits and syrup from scratch. We drank ice tea out of crystal goblets and rocked in the rocking chairs that Uncle Lee made ( he didn't want to be called grandpa so he was always Uncle Lee) and the seats were made out of Horse Hair Hides. I loved Sweetheart soap and she always kept kitchen matches in the bathroom.

She'd take her hair (that fell below her waist) out of the bun she wore all day and put her hairpins in a small metal Feen A Mint box. We slept on feather mattress and during the day she's tell us to keep our heads out of the windows before they fell and killed us, but at night she'd say put your pillows in the window and get some fresh air. She said we'd see fairies dancing under the street lights on the corner, but I didn't believe her.

She taught me to sing "put you little foot" and to count and know (not just say) my ABC's. My mother's brother, Uncle Benny, taught me to wash dishes the way they did in the Navy. Silverware first, plates and glasses, bowls and then the pot and pans last. She'd cook a big lunch and we'd have leftovers in the evening. She hated soap operas and loved wrestling and Gorgeous George. Uncle Lee watched As the World Turns and The Guiding Light and had a bowl of Vanilla Mellorine while he watched the ten oclock news and went to bed. He hated wrestling. They had a storm shelter and we'd play in it while he cleaned out the spiders and critters each spring. He had a box of letters that were his mothers that were sent by Pony Express and he always wore a blue shirt and khaki pants and a straw hat. I remember the night Uncle Benny brought a dog home. Cora said he'd be nothing but trouble, so that was his name. He would walk to the store and pick out his bag of Purina Dog Chow.

Remember Penny Loafers? Boys wore button down shirts (no t shirts) with a collar, a belt and leather shoes, no tennis shoes to school. I hated gym in junior high, and those tight one piece gym suits. We did one exercise that we sang "you must you must increase your bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater". I miss grandma Cora and Uncle Lee still. They were my safe place.

 

[m1279]

Goodnight all. Unfortunately I have to work tomorrow :seeya: Fan is in the window and can't wait to snuggle under the blankets tonight finally.

 

[daisymae]

December Bride, Paton Place, Outer Limits, Jack Benny, Arther Godfrey, Red Skelton,The George Gobel Show (my dad would work on his and Love That Bob, Bill Cummings planes), I've Got A Secret, The Millionaire, The Ann Southern Show, 77 Sunset Strip and Kookie Kookie lend me your comb, Ronald Reagan and Death Vally Days and twenty mule team Borax. I remember watching Queen Elizabeth's Coronations. There are so many....

Remember the little wax bottles with syrup in them? Candy Cigarettes and Bubblegun Cigars? Big Hunks, Charms Suckers and sometimes you won another sucker? Cinnamon toothpick, and Jolly Rancher Firesticks, and my favorite to this day Atomic Fireballs. Backjack, Clove, Juicy Fruit, Doublement, and Spearmint gum. I loved Snowballs and French Pastry.

Ah Evening in Paris and Shalimar and Old Spice for men, Sweetheart soap, Jergen hand lotion,and visits from the Avon lady. My mother wore Maybelline mascara in the little red box.

We lived with my great grandmother off and on between the times two twenty year old had four kids between 1949 and 1952 and she was the best cook ever. She had a boardinghouse during the depression and she raised my mother and her brother after their mother died when she was four and he was six months old .

She got up every morning at five and made biscuits and syrup from scratch. We drank ice tea out of crystal goblets and rocked in the rocking chairs that Uncle Lee made ( he didn't want to be called grandpa so he was always Uncle Lee) and the seats were made out of Horse Hair Hides. I loved Sweetheart soap and she always kept kitchen matches in the bathroom.

She'd take her hair (that fell below her waist) out of the bun she wore all day and put her hairpins in a small metal Feen A Mint box. We slept on feather mattress and during the day she's tell us to keep our heads out of the windows before they fell and killed us, but at night she'd say put your pillows in the window and get some fresh air. She said we'd see fairies dancing under the street lights on the corner, but I didn't believe her.

She taught me to sing "put you little foot" and to count and know (not just say) my ABC's. My mother's brother, Uncle Benny, taught me to wash dishes the way they did in the Navy. Silverware first, plates and glasses, bowls and then the pot and pans last. She'd cook a big lunch and we'd have leftovers in the evening. She hated soap operas and loved wrestling and Gorgeous George. Uncle Lee watched As the World Turns and The Guiding Light and had a bowl of Vanilla Mellorine while he watched the ten oclock news and went to bed. He hated wrestling. They had a storm shelter and we'd play in it while he cleaned out the spiders and critters each spring. He had a box of letters that were his mothers that were sent by Pony Express and he always wore a blue shirt and khaki pants and a straw hat. I remember the night Uncle Benny brought a dog home. Cora said he'd be nothing but trouble, so that was his name. He would walk to the store and pick out his bag of Purina Dog Chow.

Remember Penny Loafers? Boys wore button down shirts (no t shirts) with a collar, a belt and leather shoes, no tennis shoes to school. I hated gym in junior high, and those tight one piece gym suits. We did one exercise that we sang "you must you must increase your bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater". I miss grandma Cora and Uncle Lee still. They were my safe place.

I remember many of those! How about I Married Joan? I think Lucy mimicked her.

Thank you for sharing. Many very sweet things in your post. :seeya:

 

[daisymae]

Hey Y/N You're up late.

 

[YESorNO]

December Bride, Paton Place, Outer Limits, Jack Benny, Arther Godfrey, Red Skelton,The George Gobel Show (my dad would work on his and Love That Bob, Bill Cummings planes), I've Got A Secret, The Millionaire, The Ann Southern Show, 77 Sunset Strip and Kookie Kookie lend me your comb, Ronald Reagan and Death Vally Days and twenty mule team Borax. I remember watching Queen Elizabeth's Coronations. There are so many....

Remember the little wax bottles with syrup in them? Candy Cigarettes and Bubblegun Cigars? Big Hunks, Charms Suckers and sometimes you won another sucker? Cinnamon toothpick, and Jolly Rancher Firesticks, and my favorite to this day Atomic Fireballs. Backjack, Clove, Juicy Fruit, Doublement, and Spearmint gum. I loved Snowballs and French Pastry.

Ah Evening in Paris and Shalimar and Old Spice for men, Sweetheart soap, Jergen hand lotion,and visits from the Avon lady. My mother wore Maybelline mascara in the little red box.

We lived with my great grandmother off and on between the times two twenty year old had four kids between 1949 and 1952 and she was the best cook ever. She had a boardinghouse during the depression and she raised my mother and her brother after their mother died when she was four and he was six months old .

She got up every morning at five and made biscuits and syrup from scratch. We drank ice tea out of crystal goblets and rocked in the rocking chairs that Uncle Lee made ( he didn't want to be called grandpa so he was always Uncle Lee) and the seats were made out of Horse Hair Hides. I loved Sweetheart soap and she always kept kitchen matches in the bathroom.

She'd take her hair (that fell below her waist) out of the bun she wore all day and put her hairpins in a small metal Feen A Mint box. We slept on feather mattress and during the day she's tell us to keep our heads out of the windows before they fell and killed us, but at night she'd say put your pillows in the window and get some fresh air. She said we'd see fairies dancing under the street lights on the corner, but I didn't believe her.

She taught me to sing "put you little foot" and to count and know (not just say) my ABC's. My mother's brother, Uncle Benny, taught me to wash dishes the way they did in the Navy. Silverware first, plates and glasses, bowls and then the pot and pans last. She'd cook a big lunch and we'd have leftovers in the evening. She hated soap operas and loved wrestling and Gorgeous George. Uncle Lee watched As the World Turns and The Guiding Light and had a bowl of Vanilla Mellorine while he watched the ten oclock news and went to bed. He hated wrestling. They had a storm shelter and we'd play in it while he cleaned out the spiders and critters each spring. He had a box of letters that were his mothers that were sent by Pony Express and he always wore a blue shirt and khaki pants and a straw hat. I remember the night Uncle Benny brought a dog home. Cora said he'd be nothing but trouble, so that was his name. He would walk to the store and pick out his bag of Purina Dog Chow.

Remember Penny Loafers? Boys wore button down shirts (no t shirts) with a collar, a belt and leather shoes, no tennis shoes to school. I hated gym in junior high, and those tight one piece gym suits. We did one exercise that we sang "you must you must increase your bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater". I miss grandma Cora and Uncle Lee still. They were my safe place.

BBM :seeya: everyone (having storms here, so internet unpredictable :stormingmad: )
here's a great recipe for biscuits: (not for people on a diet :floorlaugh
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The recipe is simple, but as delicious as it is humble. She rendered her own lard and used it often in the biscuits, but on occasion she'd use the bacon fat saved from morning's breakfast -- it adds a whole new dimension of flavor, a smoky richness. Rendering your own bacon fat may sound complicated, but it's really simple. Just fry bacon on the stove top as usual, and when the bacon is crisp and all the fat has melted into the pan, pour it into a heat-proof jar. The bacon dregs (if there are any) will collect on the bottom of the jar and the bacon fat above will turn white and solid as it cools. Store the jar in the refrigerator after it cools completely. You'll want the fat to be cold for flaky-biscuit-making.

Rosie's Buttermilk Biscuits (recipe by Rosa May Finley)
Makes 12
2 cups self-rising flour
2 tablespoons cold bacon fat
1 cup cold buttermilk (full fat)
2 tablespoons butter, melted

pastry blender will make quick work of cutting the fat into the flour, or you can use a simple hand chopper like I do. My grandmother's method was even more low-tech. She'd rub the fat into the flour with her fingers.
After several minutes of blending, the fat should be roughly cut into pea-sized crumbs.
Make a well in the center of the mixture and pour in the buttermilk.
Mix with a fork until the liquid and dry ingredients are just combined and a sticky dough is achieved. If your dough is too stiff, add 1 to 2 more tablespoons of buttermilk.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and then lightly sprinkle the dough with additional flour. Knead briefly and pat the dough flat with well-floured hands to 1 1/2" thickness.
Cut dough into rounds using a 3 inch round biscuit cutter or cookie cutter (here I'm using a can that once held mandarin oranges). Re-roll scraps and cut more biscuits until all of the dough is used.
Place biscuits, just touching, on a lightly greased 13 x 9-inch baking sheet.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and fragrant. Brush with melted butter and serve.
http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/old-school-buttermilk-biscuits-182200194.html

 

[Nore]

I remember listening to the "Hermits Cave" on the radio. also "The Shadow". My mom liked the spooky shows. H.C. "turn out your lights, turn them out HEHEHEHE". I was only 6yrs. at the most but darn I remember! I guess thats where I got the urge to study crimes."The Shadow Knows"..no tv then we had to use our imagination. So many many memories. Now I'm watching BigBang..I was born at least 40 year too soon! :floorlaugh:

 

[YESorNO]

Hey Y/N You're up late.

Evening/morning sis :seeya:
I'm up late because I fell asleep on my couch watching Alfred Hitchcock movies on TCM at 7:30 tonight (should never lay on the couch when I watch TV :floorlaugh. I'll be up for a while-as long as the internet lets me or I get tired again).
Big storms here this weekend. :scared:

 

[daisymae]

Evening/morning sis :seeya:
I'm up late because I fell asleep on my couch watching Alfred Hitchcock movies on TCM at 7:30 tonight (should never lay on the couch when I watch TV :floorlaugh. I'll be up for a while-as long as the internet lets me or I get tired again).
Big storms here this weekend. :scared:

Does the rain hit like on a tin roof? I'd love hearing that.

Frazier is on here. Am tired tonight. Busier day than usual - yard work, scrubbed my shower, mopped kitchen, etc.

 

[YESorNO]

How'd the tennis matches go today, sis?

 

[YESorNO]

Does the rain hit like on a tin roof? I'd love hearing that.

Frazier is on here. Am tired tonight. Busier day than usual - yard work, scrubbed my shower, mopped kitchen, etc.

No tin roof here, but the rain is very noisy anyway.
watching Frazier now, also.

 

[YESorNO]

And it's very muggy that I need the AC on.

 

[daisymae]

How'd the tennis matches go today, sis?

Enjoyed the matches today. While I do love watching tennis, baseball is my game. wondering how the Braves are doing towards end of the season. World Series time coming. Don't like football at all. :floorlaugh:

 

[daisymae]

And it's very muggy that I need the AC on.

AC is always on .... current power bill is 261. - very high for me.

 

[YESorNO]

Enjoyed the matches today. While I do love watching tennis, baseball is my game. wondering how the Braves are doing towards end of the season. World Series time coming. Don't like football at all. :floorlaugh:

I don't like sports at all :floorlaugh:

 

[daisymae]

I don't like sports at all :floorlaugh:

I played what what offered in high school ... softball mostly.

 

[YESorNO]

AC is always on .... current power bill is 261. - very high for me.

I dread the winters here- that's when I pay a lot for heat every month 'til it warms up again in the Spring.

 

[YESorNO]

I played what what offered in high school ... softball mostly.

The doctors wouldn't let me play sports in school because of the Rheumatic Fever I had and my heart- couldn't take gym classes.

 

[daisymae]

I dread the winters here- that's when I pay a lot for heat every month 'til it warms up again in the Spring.

I know how that is. Normally AC is quite low, but with 3 of us here running TV's, washing/drying clothes, showers, and I insist on using the dishwasher. I'm a bit of a germaphobe.

 

[daisymae]

hi scmom