Some childhood Memories!

Are you guys getting tired of these kind of blogs! I got a letter from my friend Thelma, ( my 8th grade teacher's daughter) today and she was telling me that after she and her daughter left my Birthday party, they went to Chico and then went up to Tri-Cities Wa. where another daughter lives and they, the two daughters and she really had a nice time visiting. But then she went into the Birthday Party and how she and her daughter really enjoyed the Mass before the party, and all the things that went on at the party and all! Then she was telling me about how her Father who used to cut hair for all the men and boys in Wawawai, when they were there. She said that the first year they were there, which would have put me in the 7th grade,her father would just come down to Wawawai on weekends because he was going to barber school up in Lewiston, Idaho, where they had come from that year! She said he told her in later years, that he just couldn't sit around all the time while Mrs. Earl was teaching. It wasn't that far to Lewiston either and it gave him something to do because he had retired from his job!!! So she said, in her letter, that she and her Mother that first year would walk up to our house and "visit" in the evenings! She said those were, in her opinion, the best days of her life! She said that they had just loved our family and then, when that first summer when the men in the area decided to fix up the basement of the school as living quarters with a couple of bedrooms, a kitchen, etc. that really made them feel close to the Community!!! Then she asked me if I remembered us taking our sandwiches at lunchtime in the Spring and going down to the creek and putting fresh watercress on them. She said it didn't matter if it was peanut butter or meat, we still ate the watercress and she said like I told you before, it was so good!!! And the beautiful flowers on the hillsides,etc. It brought so many memories to me today too! She said her daughter has talked her into getting computer lessons and then she can E-Mail me, she said. I remember, while sitting here, my brother Bob, who was in the first grade when we moved there!!! He always had to wear a white shirt, trousers and talked Mother into getting him a "bow-tie! He never went barefoot! Always had to have his shoes on!!! He was so darned cute when he was little! He was neat as could be and always had his hair combed, etc. Mrs. Earl and the other teachers over the few years we were there used to really get a kick out of him! He was always a "little gentleman!" And when I saw him at my party, he hasn't changed. He was always pretty quiet but could really be funny! He had a dry wit like my Father had! I could say something to him and without ever cracking a smile, come up with something that had me and him laughing our heads off!!! I saw that in him at the party too, in some of the quiet little "cracks" he would make, Oh no, not about anybody, but about something!! His kids will tell you that he is like that!!! I really hated to see him move away from here but he needed Doctoring and I was getting too "old" to cook like I used to for him! Hey Bob, I miss you and our quiet evenings here at the house! I am rambling on now so it's best I get to bed for now!!!