- living on the farm
- Wisp (my favourite milk cow)
- riding Beauty and 'the carrot whip'
- hating to have my hair washed
- listening in on the party line (telephone) and getting in so much trouble for it!
- adventures with Sammy & Sadie (the two dogs on the farm that went everywhere with me)
- cuddling with Sadie in the kitchen
- Mum reading me Little House on the Prairie at bedtime
- sitting on the glass jar and needing stitches
- making the farm scene out of green, brown, red, and yellow felt with Mum
- the excitement when Holly and Robin came home
- starting school and Mum dressing me by standing me on the corner of the kitchen table
- Papa and Gram picking me up for Sunday School
- Papa reading me the funnies on Sundays
- Papa buying extra milk for me at the cafe (the store was closed and I'd drink them out of house and home!)
- eating maraschino cherries with Papa
- eating cucumbers in vinegar with Papa
- riding the tractor with Auntie Wendy
- Papa pushing me on yellow swing in the backyard
- Papa's stories about Mrs Jimmy Skunk
- Auntie Verna making me feel like the most important person in the room
- feeding the cows - Dad putting the truck in 'bull low' and me steering while he pushed hay out the back
- 'holidays' at Holly's when Mum and Dad would milk the cows early one day, drive to Holly's and watch cable TV, then come home and milk the cows late the next morning
- Mrs Henderson's (babysitter) butterscotch pudding
- Mummy Dunning
- making Kraft Dinner for dinner with Dad when Mum was at Figure Skating meetings
- The Brady Bunch
- The Carol Burnet Show
- Snagglepuss
- Yogi Bear
- black and white tv
- going to school at the 'old school'
- Mrs Newton's classroom (grade 3/4) in the old school which was 'old school!'
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