I learned it myself!

How many times has someone asked you "where did you learn that"....or "where did you learn to do that"??!!  Probably on your own.....but you probably didn't teach yourself, so you should say "I learned it myself".  That might not be so grammatically correct, but it's the correct answer, so who cares if it meets or doesn't meet Queen Elizabeth's English grammar test!

One of the first things I remember learning was how to baptize our cat.  It was sure funny seeing that cat with her feet stretched out in that wash tub, with her screeching at the top of her lungs.  I remember holding her down in the water and her paws kept flying around.  I got scratched on one arm and it sure hurt, but I finally got her completely covered with water so she was baptized. Cats had to be baptized before you gave them a name so when I was done she was Ezmerelda.   When I finally let go of her, I bet she jumped five feet in the air to get out of that old tub.  Water was dripping from her fur as she ran about 200 miles per hour towards the garage.  Let me tell you we didn't see that cat for about 4 days.

I sure learned at an early age that if mama and dad had been fighting,  you didn't let her brush your hair.  I didn't know that at first. Then one day after "a big one" she picked me up and jammed me on her lap and began to brush my hair just like she was slapping that old rug with her rug beater.  That brush went deep into the scull and those rats in my hair were no more because they were in the brush.  My scalp took about a week to heal from where the hair came out with the rats.  I hid every time there was "a big one"  before I had my hair brushed.

As I got to be an adult, I was still saying "I learned it myself".  One of the biggest things I learned was the real definition of "car sickness".  That was the day of the month when the car payment was due.....I sure had car sickness then.

As I aged, I learned pretty quickly that when you went shopping for breakfast cereal, you had to overlook the cool prize that was in the box and the cool chocolate taste or the fruity pebbles that were just sumptuous.  Instead you had to look at the fiber content and buy solely based on fiber.  I learned it myself for sure.

But the biggest thing that I learned for myself is that growing wrinkles is a fact of life and wrinkles don't hurt. 


Greenview Things

1974 -  The old legion Hall was razed in June to make room for a community building. 

1974 -  Les McKee died September 9 at the age of 92.

1974 -  Vince Evers was killed November 13 when the truck he was driving was struck by a C&NW freight train at an unguarded crossing.  He was age 30.

1975 -  Dr. Willis Beard, local veterinarian, died February 17 at the age of 78.

1975 -  Joe Wagoner was hospitalized for treatment of burns received when his home was destroyed by fire on September 21.

1975 -  Claude Beauchamp, who was the rural mail carrier from 1920 to 1964, died December 31.

1976 -  Five year old Craig Michael Bryant and one and a half year old Jennifer Lynn Bryant son and daughter of Mr. and Mr.s Michael Bryant died as fire swept through their home directly across from the Curtis elevator on January 14.

1976 -  Dedication services for the new Masonic building were held on Sunday March 28.

1976 -  An Illinois Bicentennial Wagon Train visited Greenview on April 19 to commemorate our nation's 200th birthday.

1976 -  Tripp Bros Hardware store celebrated one hundred years of business on April 17.

1976 -  John Allen Lash, age 20, drowned June 27 while on an outing with his family at Spoon Lake near Galesburg.

1976 -  Dale Edwards retired as petroleum salesman for Menard Service Co after forty one years of dedicated service.

1976 -  The old grade school gymnasium was torn down.  In 1926 the school board purchased this portable gym for $8,583.91.

1976 -  The old First State Bank Bank of Greenview building, built in 1913 was razed to make ready for a new Greenview Community Bank building.   The building next door was also razed .... it had been used in past years as a tavern, grocery store and recreation hall.

1976 -  The Daily Bread program began on December 6.

1976 -  The Federal Housing Units in Greenview were completed.

Thought For The Day

The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating
than the inability to remember.
--Mark Twain

There are so many times my mind seems to be wandering.  I will be sitting doing something or writing something or even in the middle of a conversation and then I find myself thinking about a totally different subject.  I think that's called mind wandering.

They say that first your mind wanders.....then eventually you yourself will began to wander once you lose your cognitive abilities.  Some day I think my mind isn't just wandering around in space, it's completely gone on a long walk.  But so far it seems to come home when it gets hungry or tired so I guess I don't have to worry yet.

At least I don't have to worry as long as my mind doesn't come back from its wondering excursions drunk or with some type of horrible disease that is.

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