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A place to tell those funny, beautiful, scary, embarrassing, or exciting family stories that they're all tired of hearing, but are fresh for the rest of us.
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This is the place to read and write stories told in your family, either through the years, or new ones you'll tell the grandkids. We're glad to have eons adults, middle aged and up, here to read and share those tales! Find a place to curl up and read, and then find a desk and a quill pen (or computer) to participate. There are pages and pages of all kinds of good clean stories here. Check out the archives. (Scroll down to find those pages.)
Please respect and respond to each other. "Boom" the stories you'd like to show to other Eonites by going to Reply and click on the Boom button. We all like a little feedback when we write. You could let a picture be your story starter and post the picture with it if you can. Okay, time to get started...
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4th of July
I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. A bunch of gals here at the apartment complex got together for some food and fun in our community room.
Speaking of old times and freebees.....
Hey Baby Boomers, Remember when there were dishes in the oats, towels in the detergents, and Cracker Jacks, really had prizes in them?
Slang language of your generation
Groovy was one of the phrases of the late 60's, early 70's
when I was a teen, by the time my kids came along, everything that was groovy in my generation was narly in my kids generation. Do you remember any other slang you may have used to describe what was going on around you?
when I was a teen, by the time my kids came along, everything that was groovy in my generation was narly in my kids generation. Do you remember any other slang you may have used to describe what was going on around you?
An unusual celebration
There is a tiny town called Clute, Texas not far from the marshy, humid, Gulf Coast area where I call home. We are constantly bombarded with pesky mosquitoes that whir and buzz our faces and sting unprotected arms and legs all summer long and well into the fall and late spring. An army friend, stationed in Panama for a time, said that the Gulf Coast mosquitoes were the worst he had ever seen!
What good these pesks do, I do not know; mosquitoes do, however, cause disease in humans and heart worms in our doggy friends and year round misery for lovers of the outdoors.
Anyway, several years ago a Clute delegation decided to have a festival like many other towns to celebrate its identity. They didn't choose a Rose Festival, Fishing Fiesta, or a Rodeo Round-up. The elders of Clute, Texas celebrate each year with "the Great Texas Mosquito Festival"!
What good these pesks do, I do not know; mosquitoes do, however, cause disease in humans and heart worms in our doggy friends and year round misery for lovers of the outdoors.
Anyway, several years ago a Clute delegation decided to have a festival like many other towns to celebrate its identity. They didn't choose a Rose Festival, Fishing Fiesta, or a Rodeo Round-up. The elders of Clute, Texas celebrate each year with "the Great Texas Mosquito Festival"!
Alzheimer's
Hi Valley and everyone -
I wanted to tell you my story about Alzheimer's. My Mom died at 82 with Alzheimers. A friend of mine works with people with Alzheimers and he calls the few lucid moments they have "rainbow moments" My Mom had one a month or so before she passed on . And I'll never forget it. It made me feel like 5 years old again ! She didn't know anyone at this point . Mom never called me "Ron" It was always "Ronnie" So when I'd go to see her I'd say "Hi Mom, it's Ronnie" of course she didn't respond. For some reason I said "Mom it's Ronnie - the Christmas Baby" She brightened up and said " It's my Ronnie - My Christmas Baby !" now I have to find a tissue. :-) So Talk to them hold their hand you just might get a rainbow moment !
Peace & Love
Ron
I wanted to tell you my story about Alzheimer's. My Mom died at 82 with Alzheimers. A friend of mine works with people with Alzheimers and he calls the few lucid moments they have "rainbow moments" My Mom had one a month or so before she passed on . And I'll never forget it. It made me feel like 5 years old again ! She didn't know anyone at this point . Mom never called me "Ron" It was always "Ronnie" So when I'd go to see her I'd say "Hi Mom, it's Ronnie" of course she didn't respond. For some reason I said "Mom it's Ronnie - the Christmas Baby" She brightened up and said " It's my Ronnie - My Christmas Baby !" now I have to find a tissue. :-) So Talk to them hold their hand you just might get a rainbow moment !
Peace & Love
Ron
Does Anyone Remember Sadie Hawkin's Day?
It was born out of the mind of Al Capp via the Dogpatch comic strip. The story goes that Sadie Hawkin's was the 35 year old unmarried daughter of one of the founders of Dogpatch, who declaired a day where women could chase unmarried men in the persute of marriage. It was a fun celebration we had in high school once a year. We had a parade of dogpatch type costume. Seems I made the news, never saw it, but my friends at school did. I remember a boy that kept shooting me with a water pistol all over the school, until I started chasing him. When I caught him, I was wearing an onion necklace, I pulled it off and rubbed it in his face. He chased me the rest of the day, finally, we made peace at that time. It was a fun day.
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