Yesterday's Memories

A Tank of Gas

2008-06-22T05:36:00.004-05:00

My hubby tells stories of him pooling his change with his buddies on Friday and Saturday nights to put a dollar's worth of gas in his friend Johnny's old car, so they could drive around and hang out together. They would go to Sky Castle's and one of them would order a coke while they sat and talked, and when the waitress would be about to shoo them out, another one of them would order something.

For All the Fathers Who Have Sacrificed for Our Country

2008-06-15T14:35:00.004-05:00

This picture and the following text was sent to me last year, and quite by accident today I pulled it up while searching for something else. It seemed appropriate to share it today in honor of all our young fathers who are away from home right now fighting for what they believe and for all those fathers who will never come home from battle. This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi

Our WONDERFUL 44th Wedding ANNIVERSARY

2008-06-14T06:31:00.004-05:00

Our wedding anniversary was yesterday, and we had a wonderful time celebrating it. Actually, we started celebrating on Thursday. The National Convention of Sacred Harp Singers was in the Birmingham area and we decided to go listen to some of it Thursday morning. We knew it would be loud, so we sat on the back pew as far away from the singers as we could get. It was still loud, but we both enjoyed

May Just Keep Daddy's Car After All

2008-05-14T09:09:00.004-05:00

We tried putting Daddy's car on eBay twice, but neither time did the bidders come close to our Reserve Price. I did get to write back and forth with one man who already restores these types of automobiles. He sent me some beautiful pictures, and he sounds like the perfect one to appreciate this vintage car. But, he is not willing to pay nearly enough to make it worth our while to sell it. I have

Enjoy Our BLOG VILLAGE Family Memories Carnival

2008-04-26T05:47:00.012-05:00

Join Us as we read these special FAMILY MEMORIES of some of our BLOG VILLAGE Friends! CyberCelt presents Take Me to the River posted at Texas RV Travel blog CyberCelt shares how her family outing at the river came to include the community at large. CyberCelt presents There is a Season posted at Losing Proposition On Losing Proposition

Family Memories Carnival Coming April 28

2008-04-16T20:00:00.003-05:00

I'm hosting the BLOG VILLAGE Quarterly Carnival focusing on FAMILY MEMORIES! It certainly seems like an appropriate topic for this blog. So, how about sharing stories of your childhood, or maybe how you met your spouse. Does your family have special bonding rituals? Do you have some "strange" family members who help to make your family unique? How about sharing lessons you've learned from past

Daddy's Car is on eBay this Week

2008-04-16T17:37:00.005-05:00

I did it. I finally bit the bullet and put the ad for Daddy's car on eBay for this week. I had so hoped that someone local would buy it, but we don't live in an affluent area, and all that most people saw was an old car. Those who did appreciate what a unique automobile it is can't afford it. So, after having it on Craigslist for a week with no inquiries, it was time to try eBay. After all,

Finally Getting Serious about Selling Daddy's Car

2008-04-02T18:41:00.009-05:00

Back some time ago I wrote about getting Daddy's car back in running condition and putting it out in the yard with a FOR SALE sign on it. We posted a FIRM price on it, so we would not be bothered by lots of local folks thinking it might be a $500 car. We have had plenty of people stop, a few who sounded like they would be back with the money almost immediately, a couple who seemed to really

Searching for a MARY DUNBAR GLASS LOAF PAN

2008-03-30T17:08:00.003-05:00

I posted last year about an interesting glass loaf pan that we found at an Estate Sale, and we received an email recently from a lady who read our post while she was searching for the pan on the Internet.Whatever happened to that Mary Dunbar loaf pan featured on your website? We just broke my Mom's, and need to replace it. It was her mother's, and yes she was still using it. Let me know if you

My First Presidential Election - The Man with a Hole in His Shoe

2008-02-27T08:46:00.004-06:00

Photographer William M. Gallagher won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for this photograph of Stevenson on the campaign trail in 1952. The image of the "Man with a Hole in his Shoe" remained with Stevenson and served as a symbol of his efforts during the 1956 presidential campaign. copied from the Princeton University Library This 1952 election is the first one that I was old enough to get interested in

Garage Sale Rant

2008-02-09T06:37:00.000-06:00

We're so used to our little routine of going to a few Estate Sales and garage sales every Friday on our Date Day that it's hard to break the habit. There's always this anticipation that we will see some unique items, even if the price is not such that we would buy them. Well, yesterday was a DUD to add to several other DUDS we've had lately! In fact, it seems to hold true that from about mid

Hmmm.... Looks Like I'm a Conservative Republican

2008-01-25T03:17:00.000-06:00

I still remember when I registered to vote. Back then, you had to be 21 to vote, and at that time you had to pay a poll tax. In Alabama, you also had to pass a quick test to be sure you could read English proficiently. I don't know if that was the case outside the South or not. I do remember that getting rid of those requirements was one of the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. Being white, I

Do You Know What This Is?????????????????

2008-01-14T11:43:00.000-06:00

One of our readers has been trying to figure out what this unusual vintage item is. I found your blog and noticed that it mentioned that if someone was looking for a 'particular vintage collectible' to contact you. I'm kind of working in reverse... I'm wondering if you would know what this item is... Its total length is no more than 6 inches. I'm really at a loss, and would appreciate any

Fouad al-Farhan STILL BEING DETAINED in SAUDI ARABIA??

2008-01-11T06:27:00.000-06:00

Something prompted me to try to find out if the detention of the Saudi blogger had really only lasted a few days, as originally reported that it would. When I Googled his name, I was overwhelmed by various links to sites demanding his release. I leave it to you, dear reader, to decide for yourself which sites are genuine, and which are just using his cause to grind their own ax. I just know

Not the Kind of News You Like to Read as a New Year Begins

2008-01-02T05:18:00.001-06:00

International / Middle East Saudis Confirm Detention of Blogger By KATHERINE ZOEPF Published: January 2, 2008 An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed.I followed the link to see this man's blog, not really knowing what to expect when I got there. It was no surprise that it was in Arabic, but the copy of his letter,

The Reason for the Season - JESUS

2007-12-22T06:10:00.000-06:00

Matthew 1:21 (King James Version) "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." The last few years have seen an obvious change in the way businesses handle greetings for the Christmas holiday. When I was growing up, in fact, when our children were growing up, everyone wished each other a "Merry Christmas!" But the last

SANTA .... He's EVERYWHERE!!

2007-12-17T06:33:00.001-06:00

We have always had a lot of fun finding unusual items at Estate Sales on our Friday Date Day, but this little Santa decoration caught my eye, and the more we looked at it, the more unusual it appeared. If you click on the picture, you will see that all of the dolls in Santa's stockings have sad faces! Doesn't that seem strange to you? So, it's not surprising that it was a Santa collector who

Tommee Tippee Memories

2007-12-05T12:36:00.000-06:00

Sometimes we find old things at Estate Sales that just flood my thoughts with childhood memories. One such item we found not long ago was a Tommee Tippee set of an old food dish and child's drinking cup. They were definitely used a lot, and this cup does not have the sippy lid, but the old decals with the teddy bear were enough to send me into a nostalgic reverie. I used the weighted round

Do You Remember Horace Horse Collar?

2007-11-20T18:32:00.001-06:00

We found this vintage Disney character doll at an Estate Sale about a month ago. It was made by GUND when their trademark logo was a lower case cursive "g" with rabbit ears. Horace was Mickey Mouse's sidekick in the cartoon series from 1929 to about 1940, before I was even born. Do you know who Horace's girlfriend was way back then? I found it interesting, when I did my research on him, to

Parents Shouldn't Have to Bury Their Children

2007-11-02T16:49:00.000-05:00

I've heard that expression all my life, and DH and I have been fortunate, in that our children and grandchildren are all healthy and safe tonight. But I know people who have dealt with the death of a child. There's nothing that can be said at those kinds of funerals that can help in the least. That's why this request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service blog is so heart wrenching.

Hurray for Plano! A+ for Customer Service!!!

2007-10-27T11:04:00.000-05:00

It's such a rarity to find excellent customer service these days that I feel compelled to share with you a very satisfactory experience I had this week. We have been looking for a really good way to store my week's worth of medicines in such a way that I can carry one day's pills with me easily, plus have each time's dose in a separate compartment. Right now I'm taking 27 pills, capsules, and gel

Join Us for our FALL FEST Carnival!

2007-10-22T17:15:00.000-05:00

Come join us for some fun by submitting your favorite post to Our Quarterly BLOG VILLAGE Family Carnival DEADLINE Extended to Midnight SUNDAY, Oct. 28 about Halloween or anything pertaining to Fall You can read all about it, plus use the link to enter on the BLOG VILLAGE Community NEWS. You can enter as a GUEST if you have a link on your blog to Yesterday's Memories, or any Villager's blog.

Stop Abuse Now!

2007-09-27T21:21:00.000-05:00

Today is the day that bloggers all over the world are writing about Abuse. Thinking about all the different kinds of abuse there are is simply overwhelming. Things were so much simpler when I was a little girl. Families consisted of a Mama and a Daddy, with Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles living nearby for many of us. People who got divorced were uncommon enough to be talked about in whispers.

"Better Than I Deserve"

2007-09-14T07:33:00.000-05:00

My DH and I both retired early to take care of parents, quitting before we were eligible for Social Security. I had a great retirement package as a public school teacher, but my hubby really just quit. Mind you, we're not wealthy people. But I had been working toward retirement for many years, always saving any pay raises I got, and purposefully living below our means, paying off credit cards in

One Life Remembered

2007-09-11T07:22:00.000-05:00

This is a repost of my attempt to remember one of those who died on September 11th. Norma Khan was on American Airlines, flight 77, on her way home to Reston, Virginia, on September 11, 2001, when that plane was hijacked and aimed at the Pentagon. She was 45 years old. She had worked as an organizer for fundraiser programs for non-profit organizations, and had been heavily involved in the