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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Foots,

    Do you do any knitting needlework or crochet now?

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Watching Love Boat, Fantasy Island and The Carol Burnett Show on the weekends with my parents.

    Peanut Butter n Fluff sandwiches with Wise Potato Chips...Yummers!

    The crush I had on Randy Mantooth from Emergency! Wowsa!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Alittle cause of my Arthritis,

    Taking blankets and making tents to sleep outside in.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Oh, how fun tents were!

    Making cranberry bread with my mother.  We would put the cranberries in this "squisher" and rotate the arm...making awesome mush from the cranberries.  We would also grow rhubarb, peaches and grapes in our backyard.  Mom would then make pies, and I would try to make the occasional pie as well.  Never as good as my mothers...

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Did You save me any?

    Going to visit my Grandma, there was a hump in the

    road that was like a roller coaster ride, it was in the country

    were there was no traffic.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Foots :)

    Grandmas roast lamb, with potatoes marinating in the lamb juices, then everytime we had our special lamb at Thanksgiving, we would get almost to the end of the meal, when Grandma would remember the Mint Jelly!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Yes, Even the angelfood ones were good.

    Do they have carnivals at school anymore.

    I loved them

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    How about the "smell" of fall, apple cider, pumpkin pie, piles of leaves (and the smoke from chimney's,) the promise of the holidays to come...Mulling spices heated up on the stove that fills the whole room with beautiful smells, apple harvest....

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  • theresap60
    theresap60 Member Posts: 947
    edited September 2010

    All this talk about Grandmas and food!  I miss my Grandma.  I have holiday recipes passed down ... I'm so grateful that I was the one who loved to cook and bake when I was young, so I have all the recipes mostly in my head, like she did, and I'm passing them down to my daughter!

    Family gatherings for weddings and funerals, with loud, happy people, aunts from the Old World cooking up casseroles, pastries, fresh coffee always on, eating cinnamon rolls, pecan pie, turkey sandwiches on  homemade rolls.  Lots of hugs and wet kisses on the cheek. :-)

    Going to early morning Mass and stopping by the bakery to get fresh donuts to bring home with fresh coffee.  Mmmmmmm.

    Walking in the night snow with my brother... all man-made sounds were muffled... no cars out... just the sound of our boots squishing in the new fallen snow, and the hissing sound of the snow falling on top of itself.  Peaceful.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    oh boy, turkey sandwiches on home made rolls...(passes out)

    and the "sounds of snow" like you are in a cocoon..yes, very peaceful.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    My father would always throw the rolls at our hoilday dinners,

    and my brothers and nephews loved it, The ladies couldnt

    understand.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Foots,

    so funny!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    I remember the taste of my grandmothers ice cream.  I'm a good cook, and for years I tried to duplicate that taste and never could until I was reminiscing with my older brother, also a very good cook, and he said he had nanna's recipe book.  I couldn't get to it fast enough.......the secret?.....a junket tablet and fresh milk straight from the cow........YUM!!!!!

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    what's a junket tablet?

    How about being on a "party line?"  Who would believe that we actually shared a telephone with at least one other person.  I remember there was this poor guy who had our family, with two girls.  I used to call my friend Stephanie and tell her we had to talk as long as we could, because "that's what girls do." The poor guy would finally get on the phone exasperated and tell us to get off. They could not longer make the movie "Pillow Talk" with Husdon and Doris Day....

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    Squid, a junket tablet is a tablet added to warmed milk to separate the curds and the whey. The curds ended up being like a set custard and the whey sank to the bottom of the bowl.  It was made to feed to babies in the early part of the 20th century but it is still availalbe in some supermarkets here in Australia. My nanna used it to help the setting of the icecream rather than gelatine. chrissy

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    very cool info Chrissy!

    I remember our very first yogurt maker...hot new technology.  I was still reeling from my fabulous lite brite (sweet) and my groovy walkie talkies (Breaker 9!)

    but the coup de grat, (will check spelling on the later :) were our pogo sticks...squeak! squeak! squeak! squeak!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    Oh yes, I remember pogo sticks I just loved mine but I coveted my brothers metal roller skates that were adjustable but never adjustable enough to fit my small foot..lol

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Can anyone still do a hula hoop, I use to be

    pretty good. How about a Yo-Yo and walk the dog

    with it.

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Love it!  I remember walk the dog, I also remember losing control of the yo yo during "around the world"

    how about "shoot the duck" on roller skates? 

    I think the hula hoop would be a challenge with my post chemo body, LOL.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    Loved the hula hoop but there's definately not enough wiggle in the fgiggle anymore...lol

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    fgiggle, hee!

    Alright, I thought of one before I drifted off to sleep.  This is not one for weak stomachs.

    I was the very proud owner of rainbow colored toe socks.  Now these were thick wool toe socks, which I wore EVERY DAY for about 4 months.  In the heat of Summer.  I have the pics to prove it.  I am not sure how many friends "wafted away" that summer, but I think there should have been some parental intervention :) Maybe my mom washed them every night while I slept?

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    I had the rainbow toe socks and believe it or not, I was at my 40yr old DD at the beginning of winter and so does she now!  She also loves them because of their warmth.  Did you have the lime green and light lavender and powder blue crimpalene pant suites...lol.  Thank goodness crimpalene has disappeared.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    How about Rich man, poor man, baker man, thief,

    Doctor, Lawyer, Indian chief, jump roping song. You

    missed You marry.

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush...............

    Ring around the rosie, Pocket full of posies...........

    Mother may I.....

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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited September 2010

    Red Rover, Red Rover

    and

    One potato two potato three potato four

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Freeze tag

    kick the can

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited September 2010

    Simon Says

    hopscotch

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Head, shoulders, knees and toes

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited September 2010

    Playing game with string(everytime was different)

    like rock the craddle. 

    Playing Jacks

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Jarts

    (before they were recalled)

    Walkier Talkies...10-4 good buddy!

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