Facebook

Today I had my own Blast from The Past that made my heart so happy that I cried. I was contacted on Facebook by some family that I had not heard from in many years. I could never have guessed that this thing called Facebook could do so much good. Who would have imagined that all you would need to do to get information is to type it into a machine and then poof there it would be. Google is an amazing thing. That reminded me of an article that read recently about all the things that a baby born in 2011 will never know about. Check out the link. Things babies born in 2011 will never know
Back in the sixties Bob Dylin said it best.

The Times They Are a-Changin' 

 

Bob Dylan - The Times they are A-changin' -1965

Television and Radio

Every morning when I open my browser I have it set to open to Facebook of course and also Hulu. Today I saw that they had added Degrassi High to the list of available shows you can watch, when you want. Recently our family gave up cable TV. This is a first for us. When we figured out that we could hook the computer to the television and watch programs and movies on demand we decided that "cable" was a bill we were willing to give up. When did we become so oriented around the world of television? Did you have a console televisions when you were a kid? We had a console but it was mostly used as a stand for the smaller TV. Consoles were heavy and not really worth the cost of repairing the picture tubes that would go out. It was also before remote controls and most of us only had three channels unless you flipped the antennae from VHF to UHF to pick up PBS. Wow, great fun. Sometimes we even had to go outside and twist the antenna to get better reception. Often we didn't know if the snow was part of the show or not and you had to be home to watch a show. We didn't get a VCR until I was in high school. If you wanted to watch a music video you had to stay up until after midnight to watch Friday Night Videos. IMDB says it was NBC's response to MTV, which you could only get if you had cable which we didn't because the cable company thought it was way to expensive to run "line" all the way out to where we lived. If you wanted to hear a particular song you had to either have a record album or wait for the song to come on the radio. If it was currently on the charts I would spend all day Sunday after church holed up in my bedroom with my boom box listening to the Top forty with either Casey Kasem or Rick Dees. I used to have lots of cassette tapes with little pieces of clear tape over the hole on the top so that I could record over them.:) Now if you want to hear particular song just plug in the info in any search and up pops youtube.com.
It makes you wonder if we are remembering such good times what are our kids going to consider blasts from the past. “Hey do you remember when we actually had to use our fingers to type words that appeared on a screen and if you wanted to hear a song you had to type the name instead of just saying it?” And I thought we were living the Jetson’s life now.

My Mammaw

I grew up in Southern Ohio, but my grandparents came from the coal mining area of Kentucky. My Pappaw worked at the White Gravel Mines in Minford but he passed away when I was six so I don't remember him much. My Mother's mother was known by all of us grandchildren as Mammaw. She was under 5' tall, was 90 lbs soakin' wet and always smelled like butterscotch lifesavers. That was one lady you didn't sass or disrespect. She would not allow it. She would calmly tell you what you should have done then hug you and go ahead and fix everything for you. Although I did hear hear raise her voice more than once to say, "Don't slam the screen door." But even that wasn't all that loud. Going to her house was always such a treat even though she didn't live that far away from us, just minutes really. She had the softest greenest front lawn of anyone I knew and she didn't mind if we played on it. My sisters and I would even climb the trees in the front yard. We weren't really supposed to but all she would say is, "Ok girls go ahead and climb down now." Those two trees in her yard were planted when my sister and I were born. I can't remember now which one was "mine" but Jody always claimed the bigger one. Even though mine was planted first. :) Mammaw had buckets of "hens and chickens" sitting all around the yard too. Remember them? I think they are a kind of cactus. There would be holes cut out so they could grow all around the buckets. I found this picture on another blog.

Link to fellow blogger

Of all the memories I have of Mammaw I would have to say that her fried chicken holiday meals and of course the infamous chocolate gravy and biscuits would have to be my favorite. Go figure food related memories stick out the most. Do you remember chocolate gravy and biscuits? It was what the kids would say now is "the bomb." 

Mammaw has been on my mind lately although she has been gone for quite a few years I still use all the wonderful knowledge she instilled in me, well everything except putting water in your rice crispies. I just could never bring myself to try it. Well, to each his own I guess.

Thank you Vannie Rose Curtis for helping shape who I am today. I will always love you.  Thats all for today folks. I didn't mean to make sad memories, but in case I did take a moment and when you realize that those memories make you who you are you will find your smile. Till tomorrow be safe. Angie

Searching for the "Right" Quote

I thought by sharing a little I could bring maybe a few smiles to the world everyday I post a new blog. I began this morning by searching for the perfect quote. A quote by someone important. I wanted it to say something about how looking back on our fond memories from childhood can bring us a little happiness in the present. I searched all the right keywords and looked on all the popular websites for things to say but in the end all I still had was my own words. So here goes world.
"When you see a random picture or hear a particular song that takes you back to a moment in time that makes you smile, stop for a moment and let that memory linger long enough for you to carry the smile all day."
A. Schaeffer

Enough with the sentiment on with the smiles. Todays Blast came when I was searching through Hulu.com  for cartoons for my son. Remember a show called "The Littles" Click the link below the picture to hear the theme song.

Theme Song

"Humm mm hummm, cause the littles don't stop." Now you have the song stuck in your head for the rest of the day just like I do. See you tomorrow with another Blast from the past. Be safe. Angie

* Disclaimer picture is maybe copyrighted.