I called my "old" cousin June Crithfield ( she's two months older than me!) yesterday and I was telling her about my blog. She said she doesn't have a computer but is doing the same thing with her typewriter, writing about some of the things in her life. I told her maybe she could remember some of the things I don't remember and I may have some stories she has forgotten about! She told me the following, as a "for instance"! She said after my father and mother were married, they lived in a little house on the Wawawai Creek. That year after they were married in March, up the canyon beyond them, after a heavy rain which became a cloudburst, the creek was really rumbling. My mother was frightened and took a kerosene lamp, yes, the ones with the glass chimney, and ran out of the house down by the creek. Then she put the lamp on a boulder so she could try and see what was happening, there was not much in the way of radio, T.V.,etc. in those days and apparently no telephone! Anyway when she heard the roaring and rumbling of the creek she ran back to the house leaving the lamp! After the creek calmed down, some of the people came to see if Mother and Dad were O.K. and the lamp was still sitting on the boulder where she had left it!!!! The water had just swirled around it! June said everybody sure got a laugh out of that for a long time!!! So thought I'd pass it on!
