Saturday, January 17, 2009

New Bicycle


This photo is dated 1948 and I have a new bicycle !! How could I be so lucky to get the doll I wanted for Christmas and a bicycle for my birthday all in the same year ?? My brother would say "Mom and Dad always did like you best !! " I'm sure my little brother and big sister received things they wanted, too, because Mom and Dad never believed in treating one child differently or better than the the other. Looking at the barn in this photo reminds me of the day my sis and I found some "baby kittens" in the haymow with no mother anywhere. We brought them up to the house to show Mom and she was aghast. We were reeking with "skunk" odor and we hadn't even noticed !!! We were stripped of our clothes and scrubbed down outdoors, then again, indoors in the basement laundry room. We did learn the difference between baby skunks and baby kittens that day !!

5 comments:

Tammy said...

I guess stripping and scrubbing your children outdoors must run in the family! LOL! Although I don't remember doing that Hilery, you'll have to ask her. Was that bike black and white? I remember riding a black and white bike at the farm when I was little.

Ginny said...

My bike was blue and white. Your Uncle Donny's was black and white, so that's probably the one you rode.

Hilery said...

I never heard that story about the baby skunks, I love it!

And YES, my mother did the same thing to me at the beach in Japan. I guess I was covered in sand, so she made me take my bathing suit off and wash off in the water, then walk back to the car in my birthday suit!!!

Tammy said...

The black and white is the one I remember.

Tammy said...

Oh POO! Surely she had a towel around her! I can't imagine making her parade back to the car buck naked! Shame on me if I did!