Good day today...all went smooth on the paper route. No skunks,foxes, opposum or any other of God's creatures except one white Cadillac..it kept passing us on the street. Guess he decided that we were legit! They do that. Think we are something beside paper carriers. One man kept passing us one Sunday and finally stopped and after we rolled the window down , he saw it with newspapers. Promptly said" Oh I see what you are doing." They think we are drunk. As we have to go on the left side of the road as much as the right side. We have been stopped 4 times by the police and then they just laugh when they realize what is going on...Oh well, at least they are doing their job. Maybe no new rookies are out there. When they realize that we are carriers then they leave us alone.
Nothing new today, slept through the morning hours. Honey got up, showered , dressed and left for church. Did I wake up...No I did not...slept until 11:30. I was really tired. My body likes the am hours to sleep. God made me that way so I suppose He understands and lets me go on like that. I would rather work at night, I have more energy then.
When I was a child, I would lie awake in the beautiful bedroom that my mother had decorated for us girls. Me, Shirley and Kathy. Carol was just a thought in Gods mind. My cousin, Eloise Leonard was a most talented lady. Artist, decorator and kept a beautiful home in Coral Gables. The room was painted a light yellow, 3 beds against one wall (big room) with each bedspread in a different color with the most beautiful butterflies all over. Mine was Pink, the next was green and Yellow for the last one. The drapes were just like the bedspreads, only a lighter yellow. Our furniture was white...We were 3 very blessed girls. BUT it was hot. Florida has beautiful weather in the winter but killer in the summer..No Air conditioning...that came later when mother had Carol. Only it was in her room and we used to play sick so we could sleep on the floor at night!!!! M other caught on and we would be herded back to our room. It was only after I went to college that Central AC was installed. By then I had my own AC!!!!!! IN MY OWN HOUSE!!!!! I swore that I would never be hot again!!lol
Childhood memories are wonderful. I think back now that we had a wonderful life. No worries,only had to keep the house clean ALL of the time. Sweeping, dusting and keeping the dishes done was really all that was necessary . Mother had a housekeeper most of the time as she helped dad in his business. They worked so hard. One time dad took me with him as I kept asking him "what do you do?" So one saturday,I went with him on the job!!! They used dynamite to dig holes through the rocks to install big gasoline tanks then pumps were installed. He was busy all of the time..It was a very scary time that saturday and I never asked again to go!!! But another time he had jury duty and I went with him. So interesting, seeing the lawyers, judges and of course the prisoners....I was so fascinated by the courthouse and all of the scurry. But that didn't make me want to be a lawyer. He kept telling me that medicine was the way to a better living. People would always be sick and I could be a help to them...how ironic, I became a nurse...Dad did good by his teachings. Enough chatter today. Thanks for listening grandpa..love you.
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What great attention to detail. I can see that room, but oh how hot it must have been and yet you lived~~~ We never had ac while I was at home, but then we lived in some of the most hideous parsonages you can imagine - I never intended to make that run again - but low and behold there he was calling out my name and I followed him home to Alabama and here I am after years of wandering all over creation back in Alabama. . . still following, just a bit more slowly and may I add with a great deal more prayer ~ p
Amen.
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