Jog your memories

Story ID:	1414
Written by:	Gail Lee Martin
Organization:	Kansas Authors Club
Story type:	Musings, Essays and Such
Location:	El Dorado Kansas USA
Year:	2007
Person:	Anybody

Jog your memories

This year I plan on writing what I remember about some of the following topics. Do you have memories about any of these writing triggers?
Let’s share.
We made ice cream in a hand-cranked wooden bucket.
Homemade butter in Mother‘s Daisy glass churn.
Homemade buttermilk and cottage cheese.
When people had horses & buggies.
Riding in a horse-drawn sleigh.
Your first car in my case my first bike.
Your first or worst accident.
FDR was president.
Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Walking to school.
Catching crawdads for a summer treat.
Sledding down a hill for winter fun without a sled.
We had an ice box instead of a refrigerator.
People did their own canning of garden vegetables & we still do.
Two-room schoolhouses.
Going fishing with a stick fishing pole and grasshoppers.
Milk was from our cow named Cream.
Life before television.
Working at Boeing.
Life away from home the first time.
When World War II ended.
When prayer was a daily part of our school.
When kids respected parents, teachers etc.
When we had to hand-crank the cars.
We enjoyed evenings on the front porch.
Chased lightening bugs.
We had pen pals and autograph books.
We played jacks, jump ropes & marbles.
Advertisements were on paper matches,
wooden nickels & Burma Shave signs.
Making rings from our baby’s spoon.
My first permanent wave.
We wore silk hose and long neckties.
When we graduated from eight grade & high school.
Bird nest in the overalls.
My acting career was in school plays.
We had fun with May baskets & April Fool jokes.

These topics should keep me writing for awhile so I better get started. A good example is the one Scott taped of his father’s first car. Which one shall I start with?
Gail