Aunt Naomi recently typed up some of the memories that Uncle Vernon wrote down some time ago (can anyone tell us when?). Here’s the first installment…
I have been asked by my younger siblings to put in writing some of the things that happened to me or to the family when I was young. I’ll start off with a few of my very earliest memories (the events that forever remain in the mind of a child).
- One day Mom sent me out with a deposit in the pot that Beatrice had just made and told me to give it to Daddy for his lunch. He and another man were out in the well house working on the well.
- Another earliest memory was a project of getting hair and mop thread out of the rollers on the baby bed we all used.
- The custom was to go outside for a pee before going to bed.
- There was large sandstone outcropping near the toilet, and I always wanted to beat on it with a hammer to make sparks.
Lloyd Jr. says
I think I’m going to have to what I can to revive the custom of going outside to pee before going to bed.
Jane says
Hey, you live in town. You can’t do that besides where is your outhouse at? Are you going to beat on your patio to make sparks??
Lloyd Jr. says
I’m thinking that we should plant some bamboo around the patio. I could use a little more privacy for just such occasions.
Pete Sommerer says
There is nothing wrong with going outside to pee especially in the winter with snow on the ground. Ha Ha
Lloyd Jr. says
Lauren has a compost pile and she says that’s where I should go, but it’s scary out there.