You know you are old when the baby you held just yesterday is driving now. Or signing a letter of acceptance to a college when she was just running through our beaded curtain and giggling. Sweet memories. Almost Kleenex time when I think too hard about it!
It's baby chicks time. I used to get baby chicks, I love them. I'll tell a story about myself. I had maybe six baby chicks. I kept them in a cardboard box with layers of newspapers on the bottom. There was a light clamped on the box to keep them warm. One night we were sleeping in our upstairs bedroom at the house on Campbell's Drive in Prosser. I woke up and smelled what I thought was cookies. I wondered who would be making cookies at that time of the night so I went downstairs to check. No one was making cookies. The chicks had pulled the light down into the box. They were huddled in the corner farthest away from the light. The downstairs was full of smoke. I rescued the chicks, and called the Fire Dept., and by that time everyone in the house was up. That light burnt through the layers of newspapers, the cardboard box, the indoor/outdoor type of carpeting on the floor and it scorched the wood. There were no flames. The insurance company paid well. They paid me and I made all new curtains, we had to paint, and I can't remember if we put carpet back on the floor, but I doubt it. It could have been so much worse. So every spring I think of baby chicks and my toasted little chicks. They survived! I don't recall if Crippy Hippy was of this batch or not. I'll have to ask the kids about it.
Jerry and Anne are back from their adventure! We sure enjoyed going with them. The pictures and the places they went were very interesting and we had not heard of some of them.
That family history problem I mentioned a couple of posts ago? I have yet to solve it. I'm about to give up and just leave the parentage blank. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. But I'm like a dog with a bone. I have to quit looking, I've done it many different ways, so I just need to move on. (That's what she said.)
I don't recall hearing this story about the little Chickie's! Good thing you smelled cookies! No telling how much would have burned! And I loved following along with Jerry and Anne! Feels like we took a trip while sitting on our couches didn't it!!
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