Well it looks like no one else is having any luck remembering anything from the past. Lately anyhow. So I will put on the thinking cap and see what I can come up with.
Darlene shared some things that happened with Donna before Lincoln was born and I will add to that. The night Lincoln was born I was working late trying to make a little as it was just before Christmas and with a baby coming we needed all the money we could get. I was working for the Oldsmobile dealer in Sioux City they closed at 9 pm and at that time they shut off the phones .so just shortly after 9 Pm I called Mom and Dad to see how things were doing. (That's where Donna and the kids were for the evening) Dave was there and I talked to him asked how things were going and he said just fine. Of course no one had told him that Donna was in labor and was waiting for me to call so she could tell me and I could come and take her to the hospital. I got home about an hour later and Mom told me you better hurry or you are not going to get her there in time, so off we go to the hospital when we got there they rushed her off to the delivery room and told me to get her signed in, when I finished I was hurrying down the hall to the waiting room for the delivery room and met this Nun pushing a baby cart and she said see it's a Boy and flipped the blanket up and was off down the hall. Later the doctor told me that if we had any more Babies I had better learn how to deliver them, as I wasn't going to make it the next time. Guess she was in labor about 3 and half hours.
I rember all the fights Dick and I would get into most of them Dick started and then he would take off and Ronnie would have to come and save me .I also remember selling newspapers on the street corners for 10 cents each and we got 02cents that was fun, also skipping school and hanging out at waregale bowling alley them are the good old days. I remember the old car's I used to drive ther'e worth a bundle now. Sure was nice being a kid then, when you think of it now Jerry,(BUTCH) as dad would call me.
I remember Mom taking all the local kids to and from school . At times there were so many Kids in the car that she didn't know that one of her own was missing until an other car chased her down with the missing child. Mom hauled all of these kids to and from school with little thanks from the parents and most of the time they didn't even help with the . To top it all off Mom didn't get her drivers license until many years later. The time she stalled the car on a hill and when she tried to get it started it rolled backward into a ditch , and we had to go to the near by farm and get the farmer with his tractor to pull us out. I remember David and I hoeing weeds in the bean fields for 35 cents per hour when we were 9 or ten years old and then the guy didn't want to pay us because we were to slow.
I remember the time I climbed out of the upstairs window and went to Shore Acres to a dance , when I was suppose to stay home. Mom sent Ronnie after me . That was embarassing and I about froze to death getting there. I guess I was about 16 at the time .
I remember the time mom planted her garden and the next day or a couple of days later Wade and Ed went out and pulled all the cabbage plants so mom had to replant them. Gearld and Michael were chased home by the police for thowing rocks at the police car, they were only 4. Mr Miller chased Wayne Julie Ed and myself through the apple orchard and around a couple blocks. Then called Mom and Dad and said we threw trash in his yard. Boy were we in trouble. But it was only a twig about 12 inches long.
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