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Show See yon all at the parade ! By MARCELLA WALKER This week is Strawberry Days and it is also the first week of summer. As I drove to work on Tuesday morning the City of Fun Carnival was being put into place on 200 South and at the Downtown Park. I can hardly believe that it is Strawberry Days time but I am more than ready for summer. We are getting lots of juicy red strawberries from our patch and the roses have blooms on them. Soon the raspberries will be ready and the tomato plants already have blossoms on them. We finally got the petunias in the ground. With all the cold weather and other interruptions I didn't think we would ever get the flowers in. In fact when I went to buy them they had gone on special because it was so late in the season. That is the only good think that came from getting them in late, they were cheaper to buy. They already had blossoms on them and were quite tall. They were more than ready to remove from those little potting cups that they are grown in. As you know, up there where we live there is an abundance of rocks. The strawberries like the rocks and so do the potato bugs. The flowers need a bit of soil to thrive so we added some more peat moss this year. I never have figured out where the soil goes, leaving big rocks in its sprinkle the cloth ' -ly.waitawhile, . noned. They got mll What a mesa1 W( i When we got the . I was a big help. H0 rarely use the steam usually only ironn I needs a little touch up 1 sewing, or to apply Pa' ! some handwork I can remember wh, i would spend aT , washing and haium,, H clothes. (I do no?23 I clothesline.) In the Z1 would sprinkle the ckSjj ' them ready to iron on Tu ' I throw a batch of ckf ! washer whenever I (J?1! I eodothekids.Thei!r0S f wash and no set day ?!; a though they do no H J clothes to meonSaturdayfi f better forget it I Sattirtey.ordoitthernsejv15 1 and more they do it themsSr 1 I donf know how conversation got from Stra,k S Days and summer to the L and ironing. However iH your washing and ironing, next few days and enjoy K C days of summer with Stru Days of Pleasant Grove See you at the parade! place. The mother swallow is on her nest on the patio and her husband and his cohorts dive bomb us when we go out to the patio. Summer is here for sure. All of the shorts are now out of mothballs from the winter. The girls wear them, sometimes too short, and the boys wear them, rarely too short. I remember when I used to wear shorts. It was back in the golden days of the 40's and 50's when I looked good in them. My mom once got me a darling pair of Daisy Mae shorts with the picoed edge and a top which left a bit of bare midriff. That was one of the cutest shorts outfits I ever had. Most of the rest were homemade with little sleeveless tops with a bare midriff. Mom would make them out of anything, including old flour sacks. My kids have nothing made out of old flour sacks. Remember when flour sacks came in pretty printed designs and they were always used to make something out of when the flour was gone? We used to get more for our money than we do now. First you could use the flour and then you could use the bag. My mom made dish towels out of them after they were, empty sometimes. She made aprons of them, too. Of course anything made of flour sacks in those days had to be ironed. People ironed their sheets and some ironed their underwear. I hardly ever iron any more. I am supposed to be teaching the children this skill before they get out on their own. Although most of them have at least tried ironing once or twice I'll bet none of them know why the ironing board is narrow on one end and not on the other. When I was a kid our ironing board came down out of the wall. When it was out of use it was completely out of the way. Homes do not come with built-in ironing boards any more. It will not be long before we will probably not even need ironing boards at all. All fabrics will be totally unwrinkleable. When I was first married we had to do a lot of ironing. I would |