A Bike for Christmas
By Vickie Perkins nee Alumbaugh
The Christmas I remembers most is when I got my first two wheel bicycle. It was green. It was in the 1950s and I was around 6 or 7 years old.
At that time, I thought I was in love with the milkman and I wanted to show off for him while riding my new bike. I was so intent on impressing the milkman that I wasn’t paying attention to my surroundings and ended up running into a barbed wire fence. I think it hurt my pride a whole lot more then it did my body.
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From Harvey Wike
Yes, Christmas Memories can be valuable. My mother used to make molasses Taffy and put Black Walnuts in it. One year while I was stationed in Germany, she sent me a big box full and I handed it out to all my buddies. Two years in a row, our daughter Sandy worked in a bank down the street from our house, so she had me sit in the bank handing out candy to the customer’s children. Then one Christmas Eve I dressed up in my Santa suit and visited family and they didn’t ever know it was me. After I left the one house the older boy ran outside to see where I went but I was gone already. He ran back into the house and said Santa sure is fast. It is great just to see the sparkle in the children’s eyes.
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Grandma's Apron
From Chalet Bill
The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a holder for removing hot pans from the oven; it was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken-coop the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came those old aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids; and when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling-wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled it carried out the hulls. In the fall it was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out on the porch and waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields for dinner.
It will be a long time before anyone invents something that will replace
that old-time apron that served so many purposes.
Author unknown
Published in U S Legacies Magazine December 2004
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