But I do remember some things. Gin Rummy and the air conditioner in the back room going full blast. Trying to catch the fan blades on the metal fan without cutting my fingers off. Eating on TV trays - it seemed so decadent :-). One time Mimi dumped out a big coin bank and told Diana and I we could keep whatever we could count. Give me a break - she was two years older. I was so worried about the loot she was counting, I could barely count to 10. Playing the piano or playing like we were playing the piano. The heat vent and straddling it in the winter until we got too hot to stand there anymore. Walking to Theta Pond and getting a wee bit too close to the swans. Watching couples "spoon" on the benches. The attic fan. Oh, it was terrific. Loud, scary, cool. And I was always wary of those closets under stairways. Someone told me there were monsters there (now who could have done that?), but they were not as bad as the monsters down in the basement at Mother B's and Daddy H's. And then there was that "garbage thing" sunk into the back patio. What was that?
More later. But I still want to find out about the years we don't know about.
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Well you know Mimi was older than Upton. Upton as a kid raised cattle in the Oklahoma panhandle when RS decided he wanted his boys to graduate from college so he moved the family to Stillwater. and you know none of the boys graduated from college but, all of the girls did. I think Mimi was a secretary/business clerk and met Upton in Stillwater or Perry.... and then it gets fuzzy..
ReplyDeleteYou have a good memory about he rest. Kelly and I tlaked some about the smells.... and memory. Right now that is the strongest I have ... the smells of Mimi's kitchen and all I can say is it was clean and 19050-ish and like water.. clean water.. or soft smells like pillows...
However some of the dating stories about Richard... his getting stuck in the car and coming home with muddy clothes and the girls were in their slips to avoid getting dirty... is a classic.
Richard's nose was bent out of shape literally b a Guthrie basketball fan who hit him with a pipe after a state or regional basketball game. Fighting then was common... very.. a way of life.
That's it fr the moment... but other moments come