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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
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It was a mixed up blend, his rich heritage and her elbow grease life. How they came together is kind of amusing. He was from California, well educated and had been of a culture that he could stroll in the most elite crowds with great poise and dignity. She, on the other hand, was thirteen years younger, and was more accustomed to strolling along the fences with wires and pliers in her hand, mending holes where needed, while trying to avoid the cow patties as she walked their well-broken trail. She had lived the Great Depression. As a senior, she had only one dress to her name, plain navy blue. Though poor as mud, she didn’t let it get her “goat” as she would say. She always had a little extra ingenuity up her sleeve. I remember feeling sorry for her when she told me about that sole navy blue dress, but I found immense pride when I learned how she had figured a way to accessorize it into several dresses. She had taken small scraps of fabric and made detachable collars and cuffs and sewed them on when she wanted a change. Mom’s motto was “if you come against a wall, you go around it, over it, or under it. There’s always a way.” My mother has a rich “poor” heritage, where she had to do adult work all of her life. Among her tasks were egg gathering, milking, making butter and other milk bi-products. When she wasn’t working inside the house in meal preparation, she helped Grandpa tend the livestock, garden, and make repairs on roofs and buildings. My eighty-one year old mother still lives in the farmhouse and still does much of her own repair work. Matter-of-fact, we joke that she has moved the kitchen into every room in the house, but the bathroom. She’s just that kind of self-made person that exercises abilities that others don’t even know they could have. She learned many her skills through her father, L.J., who only had a third grade education. How my two parents ever got together is kind of a Cinderella story. My mother’s small town friend moved to California and married a guy who worked with my dad who was thirty-two at that time. Barbara showed my father a senior picture of my mother, one with a pretty sheepish smile, and that started it all. The letters began, then a train ticket was sent to her, and then, she made him her famous apple pie. After that it was history! Even though there was a thirteen year difference and a cultural difference, the product of the blending was phenomenal. After all, they raised four pretty good kids! When we’d ask how the two had gotten together, Dad would always say that he fell in love with her apple pie. Their apple pie romance made the Cincinnati Enquire, announcing her engagement and the love my father had for her pie. She did, and still does make the best apple pie you’d ever taste in your life or in your death. Incidentally, my father had just asked for second piece of that apple pie when he died in the dining room in 1976. At least he died one happy man eating the American Pie that we all dream. [This message has been edited by Sadelite (02-09-2004 09:58 PM).] |
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Endlessecho Member
since 2003-09-05
Posts 398I live within myself |
That story is as sweet as apple pie! ;-) haha Seriously, this was a very good story. It gathered different sentiments and emotions in it - nostalgia, humorous "After all, they raised four pretty good kids!" Very cute. I liked the history. How you built on their characters - especially mother's. One thing - you probably don't need the sentences in the second and third paragraphs to be in parenthesis since the sentences after them go along with the thought. Just a small thing though. And I'm also feeling a little guilty for giving grammer advice - considering I am SO bad at that when it comes to my own writings. I break all the rules. Well, I really enjoyed this peice. You always paint such a nice picture.  |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
Endlessecho, Good comment about the deletion of parenthesis. It reads a lot better now. Thanks. Happy writing to you! Sadie |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Good writing. (Check your email.) |
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