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Aunt Lolly’s Story (part 7)
I was ll years old in 1949 when we got electricity on the farm. We were so excited. Our older brothers and sisters had bought Mother a new Sunbeam mix-master. Mother was looking forward to using it. One summer day, Mother and Daddy had gone to town and the electricity came on. We ran all over the house turning on lights, then out to the smoke house and cellar to see if the lights worked. They all worked great. Then we ran out to the barn and tried all those lights. Everything worked fine. We were so thrilled! Cleo baked a cake and used Mother’s new mixer. When Mother got home she was so upset. She wanted to be the first one to use the mixer. The cake was good though. I didn’t have to fill coal oil lamps anymore after that. Electricity really changed our lives. Our older siblings bought us a radio and electric iron and refrigerator. We were “up town” now!! Every piece of laundry that was washed –we had to iron. Even the rags. Before electricity, we stood by the stove, summer and winter, so we could always keep a spare iron getting hot on the cook stove.
Aunt Lolly’s Story (part 6)
Beatrice was always singing and dancing around the kitchen. She liked to imitate Betty Hutton. I was eight_years old and I was walking through the kitchen when all of a sudden a big ole foot landed on top of my head. She was as surprised as I was.
Mother would have a song or poem for every occasion, idea, or word spoken. She was amazing. She taught us to sing. Cleo and I spent many, many, many hours at the sink washing and drying dishes. Cleo liked classical music. There was a program on the radio with that kind of music. I would get so mad at her for having to listen to it. She was always singing. If she sang a song I liked, I would sing with her. If I didn’t like it or if I was mad at her, I would sing off-key just to aggravate her. I discovered that I could make my singing off-key sound pretty, and I tried harder to make it sound good. That was how we began singing in harmony. Cleo sang soprano. I sang alto and when Naomi got older, she sang alto and I sang tenor. We sounded pretty good together. The Johnnie Boys were a country music group that played for our 4-H dances. They also had a radio show every morning on KWOS. We sang with them at one of our 4-H dances, and they invited us to sing with them on the radio. Mother and Daddy took us to Jeff City to the KWOS studios. It was fun.
Photo Friday
On the photo it said Christmas, 1967
Grandma’s Necklace
During Grandma Week, Julie put together some information about the necklace that Grandma was wearing on her wedding day. She posted a link to it in the comments, but I wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to see it, so if you haven’t seen it, click here.