I had a breakfast-making mishap this week. When the toast came out of the toaster, I took the lid off the butter dish on the counter and it was EMPTY! After attempting to spread the toast with rock-hard pats of butter carved off a new stick fresh from the fridge, I decided putting the toast in the microwave for a few seconds would soften the butter. It did, but it wasn\u2019t good for the toast. It came out way beyond crisp. When I tried a bite of it, I gave Bill a warning saying, \u201cIt\u2019s really crunchy, Euell!\u201d He got it. I have a sneaking suspicion that most of my blog readers did, too. Not only do you remember that Grape Nuts commercial you probably remember Euell Gibbons, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then a week or so ago, when something in the house came dangerously close to tipping over, I said aloud, \u201cTippecanoe,\u201d to which Bill responded, \u201cAnd Tyler, too.\u201d We\u2019re old all right, not old enough to remember the 1840 presidential election, but we\u2019re old enough to remember the phrase. Our kids and grandkids? Not do much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How about \u201cHi, ho, Silver, away!\u201d Say that, and you\u2019ll draw a blank because they\u2019ve never heard of The Lone Ranger or Tonto, or Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, either, for that matter. And that\u2019s too bad. Those heroes and heroines of black-and-white movies and early TV were people worth emulating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Christmas decorations gradually leaking out of the garage and into the house, it\u2019s easy to be nostalgic about what isn\u2019t there. Tinsel anybody? And how about bubble lights? My folks had a couple strings of those, and I loved them. The clips on the bottom, the ones that held the lights on the branches, tended to disappear faster than the lights wore out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking about clips on bubble lights somehow made me think of clothes pins. I doubt our grandkids have ever seen a clothes line to say nothing of hanging wet laundry on one using it wooden clothes pins. How about metal stretchers to get the proper crease in a pair of jeans? And what about popping buttons off shirts by running them through a wringer washer. And irons and ironing boards? Nope, nope, nope. Forget about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last night someone sent us two separate Smothers’ Brothers video clips featuring duets of and comedy routines built around Waltzing Matilda and They Call the Wind Mariah. Their commentary made us laugh out loud. What impressed me is that they stood on stage singing a simple duet, accompanying the lyrics with one of them playing a guitar and the other a bass fiddle. No electronics. No lights flashing behind them. No clouds of artificial fog. Just two guys singing understandable and familiar lyrics. Their live audience loved it and so did we.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So pardon me for taking you on my own personal trip down memory lane this morning. And now that I\u2019ve done so, I\u2019m going to go work on decorating the tree. Sad to say, when I\u2019m done, there won’t be a bubble light in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And oh, if you happen to have a chance to see the movie, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, it\u2019s worth the price of admission. I went to see it, and since Bill can\u2019t go to movies any more, I brought home a bag of popcorn for us to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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