Happy Fall Ya'll!

HAPPY FALL YA’LL BY JUDY CAUSEY LOVE, SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

I love October for many reasons but one of them is it my time to reminisce. It is a time when I clean out closets, and cedar chests and sort through the things that those who remain alive in the family no longer hold sacred. It’s disappointing that younger generations no longer value traditions like family recipes or hand-sewn quilts that once brought us together.

But life goes on as they say, and in my purging, I found a file holding some old quotes and quips and I thought you might get a little laugh out of them: I’m still 25 in my mind…much older I other places.

What would be the best part of living to be 100 years old? I can remember my Social Security number. It’s 3. Why don’t we ever see a headline that reads, “Psychic wins lottery?”

If flying is so safe, why do we call the airport a terminal?

One day I was young and today I have a favorite pharmacy.

When is a door not a door? When it’s a jar. Now, let’s look back at some things that perhaps we haven’t thought of in a long, long time. Things that we used to love.

Do you remember walking down a country road maybe with your dad or best friend heading to a creek to go fishing? I’m sure you remember when summers seemed to go on forever and thoughts of school were a million miles away.

Do you remember sitting out on the porch at night and listening to katydids singing and frogs croaking as tiny blinking lightning bugs flew past? Let’s not forget those Drive-In movies, Hippies, beads, Barbie dolls and of course rotary dial telephones with a 50 ft. stretchable cord.

Everybody played with Light Brite but the girls particularly liked the Easy Bake Ovens. We waited anxiously for the Sears Catalogue with pages and pages of wonderful things we drooled over. I know there were kids, including myself, who cut out pictures of the mannequins to make paper dolls.

One of my favorite things was Tang, the powdered orange drink mix.

How about Lava and Lifebuoy soap, Jean Nate and Etch-a-sketch? Gumby and Pokey or Dino the dinosaur with Sinclair Oil? (By the way, I still have a green Dino stuffed animal.)

What about Lincoln Logs, the Mouse Trap game, or an authentic old Olivetti-Underwood typewriter? (I still have one that works but I can’t find ribbons anymore.)

Remember Bayer Aspirin in little metal tins that you could carry in your pocket? Or the (SEE TWISTS & TURNS, PAGE A3)