ThFlash back to early day's What brought me to the place and time in my life as it is now? I share with you who I'm and what I'm about to understand one is to have a glimpse at us all. We really aren't that different.

I recall looking at Pikes Peak loving the scene of snow on the peak, with the warm summer breeze caressing my face. Waking early in the morning on Saturday to watch cartoons. Ruff and Ready followed by Mighty Mouse,and others.
The great Oak tree I would climb as far as I dare go. The chicken pen where the best meals came from, especially after my finger got pecked by an old hen. The Cherry tree where I would collect the branches for my punishment. Remembering a time when I brought a little twig in, and was instructed to go and get two more of the same size. I watched in horror as my Mother braided all three of them together. The next time I brought in a branch I could barley carry, my Mother laughed till she cried.

The photograph taken by a Gazette Telegraph reporter, he put his hat on my head snapped the picture. Took me two weeks to get that picture I looked like a gangster hide it away. Walking to school first grade, Helen Hunt was the name of the school.(did you lose something go to get the picture) We huddle in a closet my brother my Mother and I the wind was howling, rain beating on the roof thunder shook our little house. God was busy we were to remain quiet till He was done. (tornado)

High up in the great Oak tree watching a man mechanistically taking parts, cleaning them and lay them on an Army blanket. Under the hood of a 58 Oldsmobile he removed and cleaned all the parts he put on the blanket. As I watched form my throne in sky he put it back together again.

Mrs Wilson putting all kinds of hot stuff on my brothers thumb, to help him stop sucking it. When she was done he looked at his thumb looked at her, and stuck his thumb in his mouth and continued to suck.

God Mother Shaw and that old gobbler that lived in the barn. He didn't like me and I didn't like it he would wait till I was having a good time playing around and he would chase me into the house. I can see my self as I type enjoying that big turkey leg for Thanksgiving as well as Mother Shaw grabbing that axe.

Having dinner I did number two Mother Shaw took me to the bathroom, I swear she was trying to flush me down the toilet. I was trained after that episode. I recall a fire the funny papers went up in flames, Mother rushing in my brother being punished.

The taking of baths in a wash tub, the old wringer washing machine watch out for the wringer it didn't care if it was hand or clothes.The first time I washed dishes, Mother was sick and was saying she would take care of them the next day. I told her I would wash them she prepared the water I stood on a box and did the best job ever she was very pleased. My mistake.

Eating Kellogg Corn Flakes reading contest rules to win a car, asking Mother for a stamp and envelope, inquiring why I told her I was going to win her a car. Saying that was nice I was given a stamp and envelope filled out the form on the box and mailed it off. One day a man came to the door and asked for me, I had won the car Mother didn't drive.

We were safe warm and the snow was falling Mother said I glad Father is safe on base. From where I was sitting watching television I looked at out the window and told my Mother, Father was not on base he is here he was in front of his car shoveling snow to get to the house with food which we had plenty.

I climbed the great Oak tree one day as far as I could and found a perch and sat watching as people went by. Then a man with a broken arm walked by and I called down hello,startled he looked around,saying hello again. Looking up he saw me and said hi you are way up there aren't you. I asked him what happened, he said he fell out of a tree. That was the last time I would climb the great Oak tree.

I recall going to work with my Mother at Safeway she candle eggs.The four of us became five with the arrival of my sister. Mother always said there is nothing you can not achieve, if you put your mind to it. Soon after that we moved to Fort Carson.

These are memories of my early years five or six a lot more to come I hope you enjoyed.
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