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Almost 70 years ago Clyda and Veon were married. That union is why we are all here. This blog is created to capture our thoughts and help us get to know each other better. There will be a new question posted each Sunday until December. Please use contributors first names only. If you are posting anonymously please add your first name to the text. Enjoy!
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Attention everyone...Marilyn has a WEB PAGE !! You can check it out at www.marilynsmithartist.com!
Nicole, please publish the following disclaimer in a prominent place:
I hesitated to make long narratives with these posts, but Nicole said she might put the whole blog thing into a book form someday, and I could use this as a forum for writing for my kids and grandkids. I can’t pass up an opportunity like that. So rather than bore you, feel free to skip anything you’re not interested in or don’t want to be bothered to read. Sonja
Note from Nicole:
I am happy to do this for anybody that is interested. I am enjoying hearing from each of you and would love to hear from more. Thanks Sonja for taking the time to work on this and giving us an opportunity to get to know you better.
Kids from Lt to Rt:Marilyn, Barbara, Veon Jr., Gladys, Gerald, Evan. Clyda and Veon in the Middle.
Sonja
Ve's Wife
Nicole
Glady's Youngest
Marilyn
The Youngest Daughter
Evan
"The Baby"
Daphne
Glady's Oldest
Clyda
8 comments:
As a young child, family picnics were the things I liked best. When I got older, I rode a horse as much as I could. That was my joy to get out into the mountains and hills, and up into Bryce Canyon.
Clyda
I loved playing outside games--Hide and Seek, Kick the Can, tag, "Butt Ball" (a handball game that involved a painful whack with the ball you-know-where, usually to me who lost a lot), "Bump" (basketball game I rocked at, even against most of the 6th grade boys). "Bloody Murder" remains my favorite and most memorable (similar to Hide and Seek, but a little different and we got to yell "Bloody Murder!!!" at the top of our lungs and had "graves".) I miss those days!
Alicia
I was pretty good at jump-rope and jacks, so I liked to do that at school. At home I was usually by myself, since we lived 'way out of town on a 220 acre farm. I spent a lot of time in the woods talking to the trees and birds. Really.
Sonja
I thought Liberty Park was an extension of my yard so I spent a lot of time swimming, swinging, and pretending to play tennis (somehow, I just could never get the racket and ball to make contact). Night games were a big favorite too . . . No Bears Are Out Tonight, Hide and Seek, and "Baseball" (Played with tennis rackets and balls at the nearest intersection).
Daphne
We played outside a lot! When I say “we” I mean me and Daphne because really I loved doing anything with her (I guess some things will never change). We spent hours at Liberty Park and running around the neighborhood. The most memorable were, "No bears are out tonight..." (Hide-and-seek but you don't run to a home base you wait for the hunter to find you and if you are the last bear you get to be the hunter). Cops and robbers. The cops had bikes (mine was a yellow trike until Daph outgrew her purple banana seat bike then I inherited that one) and the robbers were on foot. We also had our version of ghetto baseball. We would use a tennis racket and ball for the bat and baseball. The bases were sidewalk corners at the intersection between Denver Street and Williams Avenue. One time we were playing 'baseball' and we had all moved to the side of the street for a car. A motorcycle came the other direction and the two slammed into each other. When the police and the ambulance came and were questioning us as to what happened he told us all about how unsafe it was to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. He did not mention anything about running in 4 way intersections with no stop signs. I don't know if he did not think about what we were doing as being dangerous or if he thought we were on the way back from Liberty Park after a game of tennis.
Inside we also played Barbie’s and dolls. Sometimes we would take a room and it would be "Barbie Land". We would make our own furniture and build little houses all over the room.
Sometimes Grandma Marchant would make us play dough out of salt and flour and we played with that for hours on the porch. She would also color with me once in a while. I also had a set of dishes I played with. My aunt Lois had made me a red and white apron with my name sewn into it one summer when I was at their place in Delta. On would go the apron, out would come the Salteen crackers, and I would play 'Dishes' on the porch. When I would visit Grandma and Grandpa she had plastic toy boat that I loved to run down the gutter when the apartments above their house were draining the pool.
I always liked hanging out with the adults. They always talked about interesting and funny things, especially my dad and his friends and brothers. I would laugh so hard my cheeks would hurt. I also loved going to picnics in the mountains with my family. I don't know how many watermelons we lost while chilling in rivers; barbeques, birthdays, or any event with food and fun, relaxed conversations.
Mindy
I liked building models, airplanes, cars, rockets, whatever. Then after appreciating the experience for a while, I liked to do a pretend crash and burn. Literally.
Climbing anything, play sports and games, sometimes watching TV. As I got older, skiing was the big thing. When I was in high school I had visions of still skiing when I was 60 years old. I haven't skied for 3 years, then only because I had a free pass. It is not the challenge it used to be, and the body or a sane mind doesn't agree with the level that makes it a challenge anyway.
I liked bicycling as a kid, and still do.
It seems that most of my time was spent reading. I don't remember learning how to read. There was a little library right across the street from our building and you had to pay 10 centimes to borrow a book. I spent a lot of centimes there through the 14 years I lived across the way! As teenager, I played basket ball and volley ball. I loved climbing trees at my cousins', and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. My dad and I would get up at 5 AM, go swim for an hour and ride our mopeds, he to work, and I to school. We did that for several years. I also met with friends at the beach for the noon hour and we ate cheese and apples and swam, even when the water was too cold to put our heads in it.
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