Harvest Lane Cottage

     If you've been reading awhile, you'll know that I've had non-stop company since May 7th. Among our other company, our daughter, Amy, her husband, and our 10 month old grandson have been staying with us for a few weeks while they complete their move back from Illinois. Let me tell you, I've been loving my time with Amy and baby. My industrious son-in-law found work the first week back, and has been working long hours to get everything ready for their new home. So, I've not been writing much.      My solution for my lack of inspiration is to use a random number generator to choose a year between 1969, when I have my first memories, and 2024. I've written about 1973 , 1978 , and 2004 so far. In 1998, the world was coming up on Y2K, aka the year 2000.      My husband, Lowell, my first grade son Matthew, and my one year old daughter, Emily, were living in Carthage. My husband was working for the Names and Numbers telephone directory and tra...

  1978      In 1978, I was really into pop music.  I recognized nearly all of the  Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles when I looked the list up. ~smile~ I included a countdown video below. Let's just say that music videos have come a long way.  Seeing the costumes they were wearing amused me. I wonder if they ever seemed cool to me. Cool was everything to a 13 year old.       My friends and I were into Tiger Beat. TV was my window to the world back then like it was to a lot of young people. I wasn't riding my bike much anymore, because we moved to the country. We lived on a busy road, no shoulders, and the speed limit was 45. TV, listening to albums, and reading took the place of most of the fun play.  Mork and Mindy was great fun and an introduction to the talents of Robin Williams. Dallas was already gaining popularity, too.  Please share memories from 1978. Some of you may be too young, but I hope the rest of you will...

     Time for another year in my Randomness series. This time it's 2004. I expect most of you ladies were alive in 2004, though many will remember it better than others. Believe me, when I wrote about 1973 recently, I was amazed to realize that it was 51 years ago! How did that happen?       Let's see now, what was I doing in 2004. One would think that would be easy to remember since it's so recent, but, well I've done a lot of sleeping since then. ~smile~      In 2004, my high school sweetheart, Lowell, and I celebrated 18 years of marriage. We had four children ranging from 13 down to 3. Most of my time was spent with them. We lived in Pittsburg, Kansas. We moved there from the farm early in the year. We downsized our home and bills dramatically. Lowell missed his tractor, but he didn't need it on our corner town lot. That's when we went from having Harvest Lane Farm to Harvest Lane Cottage.         We were in the ...