Back to continuing the questions where I left off… Not only will you have some questions you can answer today, but Linda, sent me a few pictures that I’ll share with you… they will break up the “only questions” posts!
Here are Linda’s pictures…
Here are Molly, Susan, Ruthie and Betsy waiting and ready for customers! What will you be buying?😊
Here is a closeup picture of the wonderful bounty of the girls garden, plus even some homemade bread and cheese!
Here are the girls “after the Farmer’s Market… work still has to be done!”
Thank you, Linda!
Now for today’s questions!
Question 1:
What food would you eat everyday, if you could?
Questions 2:
What was your favorite subject in school?
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, what wonderful pictures, Linda. Thanks so much for sharing! I would buy some of the girls’ peaches, I think–it’s time for a peach pie!! (If anyone wants my recipe, I can send it to Jeanne, along with a picture I took a few years ago–if I haven’t done that already, I mean. It’s delish!!)
Mom used to have a wringer washer similar to that one in the second picture. It was okay if I stood on the other side and took things as they came out from the wringers, but she never would let me feed anything into them!!
Okay, questions:
1–I would probably eat fresh blueberries every day if I could. They’re my favorite fruit. And I love turkey, so that’s another thing I wouldn’t mind having a lot!!
2–My favorite subject in school was English grammar. I loved-loved-LOVED diagramming sentences!!
Ron gets his stitches out tomorrow–yay!! (He fell a week ago…)
Dear Charlotte, oh my goodness, I was just thinking that I loved diagramming sentences and then I saw your comment!
Prayers continue for you and your husband.
Diagramming sentences was not my bailiwick although I was good at other aspects of language arts. So glad Ron gets his stitiches out tomorrow. Sounds like he healed in good time.
Thank you, Jeanne, for showing my pictures, and Charlotte for the kind words! I had fun setting up the veggie stand, which really is the ice cream cart with a different top! It’s also been a flower stand!
Kit’s washday set is fun also, and brings back memories of wash days long ago! I don’t recall my mother having a wringer washer, since she had a Maytag automatic washing machine, but my grandmother had a wringer washer and wash days at her house were so much fun, (at least for me), to watch and “help”!
As far as questions:
1. I love nectarines and peaches! Absolutely love them and can eat them plain, or in pies. Right now I am in heaven since they are in season here. I owld love to see your peach pie recipe, Charlotte!
I am not sure if you are talking about grade or high school, but I especially loved art and in high school, Home Economics, but English literature was a favorite too! I am certified to teach Art and English, and love both equally. As you can see, I am NOT the science and math person! My mind doesn’t work that way! 🙂
Oh dear, fat fingers here, I can actually spell the word “would” if my fingers would cooperate!
Dear Linda, I would like to purchase a loaf of the bread. Do your girls accept Paypal? (laugh)
Oh, sure, Dorothy!😊. Even though the girls live in the ‘40’s I gladly take PayPal! Ha, ha!
Linda, your photos are always fun but these today and the best for bringing back memories in your laundry day. My grandmother had a wringer washer and my great-uncle did the wash in it. He would let me help when i was a kid. And I can still see the ironing board and ironing with a coke bottle with sprinkle lid on it, sprinkling the clothes.
As for school, in elementary it was reading, and in high school it was mechanical drawing, because there was no art class. I learned more about art there than I did in art classes later!
I hope y’all are staying cool. We are leaving the hot, rainy, humid coast for the cooler, i hope, Long Island, NY coast to visit my older son and his family. They back to GA for a week, then off to MDCC.
Thanks, Sissy! I always thought my grandma had the most fun with the laundry compared to my mother’s automatic washer, but now that I am older than my grandma was, I am not so sure it was all that much fun for her!😊
Mechanical drawing? It was only for boys in my school back in the “olden days”!
What fun pictures of your girls and their market sale. I love that their all wearing aprons too. I think I’d buy some peaches – they look plump enough. Both set ups are really cute. They all seem to be working well doing the laundry too.
I remember the 7-up and I think a Pepsi bottles was used by my mother for sprinkling water on clothes for ironing. Times sure have changed with irons. It’s always so much fun seeing your pictures, Linda.
My favorite treat I think I would like to eat every day is strawberry shortcake. The Cheesecake Factory serves a delicious one and some of the best shortcakes are found at Trader Joes.
My favorite classes in school were always art class and as I got older, history classes. I still enjoy checking out historical stories and especially seeing historical places.
Everyone, keep cool – I’d trade this heat and humidity any day for fall and winter.
Thank you, Paula! Back in my day, RC cola was the bottle used for sprinkling clothes. I always liked the fact that we could sprinkle the clothes, roll them up and be done with them for awhile! I’m not too fo d of ironing, but I do it!
Another art lover! I never liked history the way it was taught, because it was all about wars, and that did not excite me in any way!
My mother used to “dampen” the clothes as we said where I lived and then she would roll them up and put them in the refrigerator until she was ready to iron them to keep them from getting mildew if she waited too long. Then she got a steam iron. I always loved to iron and still do so I would eventually take over that chore from her.
Interesting Barbara about the refrigerator as my mother did that as well. 🙂
Dear Jeanne, I am continuing to hold you and your husband in prayer.
Question 1: I would eat Carrot Cake every day if I could. It’s a bit too sweet for me now so I cannot eat it too much but I sure do love it.
Question 2: I loved English class. I still carry my 8th grade English teacher around on my shoulder to correct my grammar. I also loved French class. We had Pen Pals. I still have some of the letters I received.
It is fun to see your pictures, Linda! I hope I can find one of those doll drying racks at a garage sale soon.
Good luck, Jeanne! 🙏
I think I would choose pizza or ice cream for eating every day.
My favorite subject was art.
Good luck with finding the drying rack, Karen! That one came with Kit’s Wash Day set, and I wished it was wood, like real ones were, but this is plastic. Oh well, it works!
Thank you for the compliments!
Karen, my comment to our is awaiting moderation for whatever reason, so I will again reply to you,
I mentioned good luck in finding a drying rack. I wish mine was wood, but plastic was what American Girl came up with for Kit’s Washday Set. Oh well it works fine and who k owns from pictures?
Thank you for the compliments!
Linda, I loved your pictures, especially all the cute little produce, bowls, etc, my favorite was the corn on the cob!
I think I could eat ice cream every day, but would sure hate getting on my bathroom scale after a week or so!
I am glad to see so many people loved English class! I was a big fan of anything to do with English, literature, journalism, working on the school newspaper. I didn’t care much for math classes, but ended up working in electronics for over 40 years! Life sure is strange sometimes!
Thank you Terri, I too love the corn on the cob. It’s from Queen’s Treasures, I also like “real” corn on the cob, so much that when it is in season, I have it at least 4 times a week! I have quite a stash of food for the dolls, so this was easy for me to put together without having to buy anything to set it up.
Thanks Linda and Jeanne for sharing and showing the fun photos. How inventive to use the ice cream stand for a totally different look as a fruit/baking stand. Love the girls and their cute aprons too. Such helpful girls to tend to the stand and then return to work on the laundry. I’m sure their mom is grateful. 🙂
As to the school subjects, I enjoyed the one sewing class I’ve ever had in 7th grade and dance class in high school. With so many grammar/diagraming experts around here, I’m sure my exploit descriptions are clogged with horrible mistakes. I somehow missed that part or hated it in my English class requirements. You will have to excuse me.
I don’t really have a food choice that I would eat everyday except for what I usually do. Yogurt and oatmeal for breakfast. 🙂 Pretty boring.
Well, I had a very interesting delivery on Saturday. Other person and I were out in the front yard working on the huge oleander bushes yet again. As I was working away, I had an allergy attack and thought that I had better run in and take a pill. Inside, after a pill and water, it was hot, I found that a load of laundry was dry, so pulled that out and transferred another wet load. Then, I thought that I heard the mail truck. Oh no. Peeked outside and it was just leaving. Well, with other person right there in the yard watching, no way could two boxes have escaped detection. Popped open the front door, and there were the two boxes on the mat. Grabbed them and tossed them inside then pulled out the mail from the box. Put the mail on the counter and went back outside to continue cutting up oleander. I was waiting for some choice comments. As I looked towards other person, I discovered that he was up on the ladder on the back side of the bush. Apparently, he did not see that the mailman was carrying two large distinctly doll boxes to the porch. Saved again. 🙂 But, today, I have a UPS delivery in the afternoon. This will not be so easy. Why do these deliveries all seem to come at once?
Hope all goes well this week for George and Jeanne. Be thinking of you guys.
Thank you Joy! I thought it was that time of the year for a veggie stand, and of course, as we all know, wash day never goes out of style!
So glad you were able to get the two packages in without any trouble! Your escapades always make for good reading! And who is coming today??
Well, I ordered Glory, RRFF from Samantha’s. Also a couple of outfits because she was having a big sale. Couldn’t pass that up. 🙂
Hi Joy, great save on the two dolly packages. Hope you are as lucky today.
Dear Joy, thanks for my daily chuckle! I just l love your stories. I could see them in a comic strip or storybook of some kind. I can’t wait for the next one.
Keeping you and George in my prayers. I love Linda’s pictures. As usual she knocks it out of the park. So many ways she finds to present her dolls for us all to enjoy. Thanks for sharing Linda and, of course, Jeanne.
What would I eat every day if I could. I love ice cream but had to cut it out almost entirely after I started accumulating weight around my middle. Sure do miss my mini blizzards from Dairy Queen. I can’t eat a lot of fruit because I seem to have some genetic thing that makes not only citrus a problem but tropical fruits also. I can do blueberries. My daughter has just moved to Maine so I’m hoping she might start sending care packages of blueberries when they are in season. I really can’t think of what I would eat every day if I could because after a couple days of even my husband’s wonderful briskets I say enough.
My favorite subject in school was reading from the first day on. I loved it in school and at home too. And I love languages and took French two years in high school as an elective because it wasn’t part of my regular curriculum. But regarding math there was something I hadn’t a clue about until I was grown. I didn’t do well in math in school at all. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it so I did not take a course in high school that included any maths. But when I went to college (at night while working during the day) I decided to major in Geology so I had to take it all since it was largely maths and sciences. But I think I was ready for it then. I had to take basic, intermediate and college algebra. My teacher nearly blew me away when she told me that few people had the math aptitude I did. But it’s actually a sad statement on how parents can discourage a child. I was having trouble in arithmetic when I started school and my parents kept telling me I was one of those people who didn’t do well in math and no one told me any different until my college algebra teacher.
Wow, Barbara, you turned out to be a wizard in math in spite of not doing well in your younger years! That would never happen to me! I took math as a freshman in high school, just plain math, thank you, and not again until college. My math professor had a time with me, I can tell you that! I never did get the “math gene”, and at my advanced age, I doubt if I ever will!
Thank you for the kind words about the pictures!
Linda…the veggie stand is awesome and my favorite is Sweet Corn and I could eat it everyday. Remembering days when the sweet corn was ready and we were living on our little farm. Just before dinner one of the kids would go to the field…pick it…strip it right by the pig lot and throw the leaves to the pigs and there would be a big pot of water boiling ready for the corn. We would each eat several big ears. Butter it was easy…we put a big pat or two on a piece of white bread and lay the corn on it like a hot dog.. it all got buttered at once that way😀 Love the aprons on the girls…you knew some serious work was ahead when the aprons came out.
I took Home Ec classes and was the teachers pet…but should have taken the business classes…it would have helpful later in life🤔
Hope you do share your peach pie recipe Charlotte😀
That was an amazingly easy delivery this time Barbara.
Thank you, Kathie! Sweet corn means summertime to me, and I put butter, plus salt and pepper on it. Just delicious! So fun to hear about the memories you have with sweet corn!
I loved Home Ec. Classes too!
Fun photos as always, Linda. I would definitely buy peaches and fresh corn on the cob. Agree about peaches fresh or in my grandmother’s version of peach pie that has a cream base. YUM!
The girls doing laundry and ironing brings back fun memories visiting my grandparents. I do recall RC cola and my grandmother always had a glass soda bottle with a sprinkler top for ironing. I thought doing that was great fun. They look so cute in their aprons. I love that one of Kit’s that you have two of.
As far as food I would eat everyday, it would be summertime fruits… Strawberries, cherries, peaches, plums etc.
Favorite subject in grade school was language arts. I loved to read, write (we also could write stories, and spell. Never was without a book to read.
My favorite high school subjects were Biology (had an absolutely wonderful Christian male teacher even in a public school) and Physiology. Aced both and even got the end of year Outstanding Student Award in Biology and was told I was his best student in 32 years of teaching. Wow, for the ego boost that sticks with you forever. Once again loved English in high school because I absolutely loved literature and didn’t mind diagramming sentences. Now by comparison Algebra and Chemistry took an amazing amount of work to understand even a quarter as well. It may be the teacher though as my Algebra II teacher was so much better than the one I had for both Algebra I and Geometry.
Thank you, Laura! A lot of us seem to like fresh fruits in season! They are so much better when locally grown, or better yet, from our own gardens!
It seems that quite a few of us had grandmothers who had wringer washers. That was always fun to watch and “help” with as a child. It certainly didn’t seem like drudgery to a child, but I just wonder how our grandmothers thought of it!
I too, loved that apron of Kit’s, that’s why I have two!