Wednesday, February 10, 2021

History 1976-1980- Two Children in Mapleton

 Snow boots and wooden floors; little money; debt; Fred runs away

Wallpaper & paint; contact paper, painting kitchen cupboards light green

Lew giving us carpet and helps us put in carpeting; new refrigerator; dryer in up laundry area

Apple juice; pole from sheep shed; splattering!;Picking & preserving apples, pears, apricots, plumcots, cherries, & raspberries; David picking and eating grapes; rid roses & lilacs

Julie and David sharing the bedroom upstairs; wrestling with Dad “1,2,3, Kiss the Loser” (lizard);

Running in house; making wooden frame for front window; buy table & drapes

Shop in room under our bedroom; library in room by furnace; family room and bath down

Gathering and cracking walnuts during football games on Saturday afternoons

Making grapes juice and growing a garden but didn’t know when to pick

Spraying as instructed; Julene eating green sprayed strawberries; Starting organic gardening

Two busy toddlers; playing with Butterfield, Moore children;

Pippin; as puppy Mom gave to us; large dog on rope; give to dog catcher who loved him

David sleeps downstairs with his toys and light on; Julene room upstairs

Birthdays; Christmases all ornaments on same branch; picnics; bike rides & lunch at park; Halloweens- Trick-O- Treating, making costumes, cutting out pumpkins; coloring eggs

Wagon rides on dirt road ( Main now); Gravel road to south of house; throwing gravel in truck

Big cottonwood trees along road; ant hill; irrigation ditch; no Main St. by us or road to highway

David wearing coat and shorts even if summer; sweating; hide coat; reading on own

Plant walnut trees around yard; Freezer in laundry room;

Children helping make meals for week and freeze; freezing pies; making jam

Getting my wisdom teeth out; collapse; Julene contacts seven years old

Grandpa Groom and wife and two children visit; brought swing set for Julene’s fifth birthday

Playing in snow; making snowmen; quail, deer, pheasants

Christmas pageants; making donuts; Easter egg hunts with neighbor children

Cut off garage and make shed; have cellar; Making tower from phone poles

Buying Chevy car for me & getting my own checks; Ken gives us cat- Fluffy

Trips to visit grandparents Pearson in Pocatello, Idaho; trip zoo -elephant & train

Garrett graduates in Building Construction; grows beard and keeps

Riding trike in Mapleton 24th of July parade; from bank to corner

Julene takes dance classes; Making pretty tucked dress for Julene; fall, stitches in chin

David loving his frog shirt; wanted an applique of animal or fruit on all his clothing

Evergreens around house and trying to weed several gardens

Making sandbox; riding in wheelbarrow; Solar heating in laundry room

Preschool with neighbors; Doing my own preschool twice a week and do some tutoring

Primary classes Tuesday afternoons; Relief Society during on Wednesday mornings

Julene starts school then next year David starts school; Julene speech class

Garrett works days at Provo Post Office; I lighten my hair for a few months

Making stairs to attic; putting in attic floor; small stairs by our bedroom

Making two bedrooms downstairs for David and Julene; David helping

Julene insistent that we need to have another baby; David wants a brother; Julene a sister

Don’t tell expecting; David announces in Primary;

David telling Dad making robe for him for Christmas; making quilts for kids beds

Turn on porch light so Dad know where we live (working long hours at Christmas)

Julene fainting: Ogden’s pool, grocery store


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