Karen’s Opinion

I was thinking about all the games that children play on the computer and wondered, do kids play games like I played when I was little?

I loved to play jacks. The game was played with little metal pieces that were thrown on the ground. Wherever they landed made the job of picking them up more intriguing. The object was to bounce a ball, pick up as many jacks as possible before catching the ball as it came down from the air.

What games do you remember playing as a child?

I have been slow to watch some of the reality shows because I don’t think they are reality. The coupon savers, Kate Plus 8 and The Bachelor are not the norm. Neither are the shows where they put a group of people in a house and the cameras let us see how they get along or more often how they don’t get along. I won’t waste my time watching people swear at each other and treat each other badly.

The reality shows I do enjoy include, Deadliest Catch, American Pickers, Something Restoration, sorry I can’t think of the name of that one. I also like The Duggers, The Little Couple and Pawn Stars. I usually learn something new from those shows. I miss seeing The Little People. I can understand why they needed time away from the cameras. The Roloff’s marriage was under so much strain due to the show and the turmoil of raising teens. They needed a break.

Do you watch any of the reality shows?

“What do you give?” is how the auctioneer began his spiel when starting the auction for each item from a large estate sale. Mom and I headed to a quilt show Saturday but decided to check out an auction first. We were “just going to look”. Famous last words.

Little did we know that this auction had boxes of fabric and quilts. We were as excited as a shopper with a 700 credit score! We had our eye on a quilt top that looked to be from the 1930′s. It was a Grandmother’s Flower Garden pattern. It was not a finished quilt and the rest of the box held “cheater quilts”.

The auctioneer went through box after box of old dishes that included some carnival glass and depression glass. I did pick up a few salad plates and discovered that two of them might be valuable.

I also bought some old fashioned mixing bowls. I knew I better be careful or I’d be checking my free credit score in order to have some money left over to bid on some quilts.

Mom and I were keeping close tabs on the boxes that held the quilts we were interested in and were a bit put out as we watched several ladies rearranging the boxes contents. We rearranged them back to their original contents more than once! I hoped there wouldn’t be a fight before the auctioneer finally got to the boxes of which we were longingly waiting to bid.

The box that held the quilt went for way more than it was worth, ($80.00), but I did get a box that held 19 quilt blocks. I only paid $5.00. The quilt blocks are paper pieced using newspapers dated 1928! I am so excited to have acquired these old blocks.

When we got in the car to head to the quilt show, the temperature was 98 degrees! We were red in the face and sweating profusely. We were kinda gross to go to a quilt show but off we went.

I don’t know what got us to start talking about the time a friend of ours dressed up as a huge bunny rabbit but it brought, once again, tears of laughter. There is nothing more fun than dressing up for an occasion.

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It is that time of year when my husband gets fishing fever. I don’t know about you but to me, this has been the longest winter. I am catching my husband’s fishing fever! I cannot wait to get our little fishing boat out onto the lake.

I have loved to fish since I was a little girl. I don’t know if my mom begged my dad to get “the girls” out of her hair but, during the summer, my dad would take his daughters fishing. Bless his heart. I never remember him getting mad, no matter how many times he had to get our lines out of a tree or get them unstuck from a pile of brush. We did have to learn to bait our own hooks. Minnows weren’t too bad to put on a hook but I usually would use the stick and stab method to bait a night crawler worm. I refused to use bemoths as bait. They looked like overgrown maggots. Nope, wasn’t gonna use bemoths even if it meant not catching any fish. Anyway, I fondly remember stopping at a little grocery, picking out my Orange Crush pop and PayDay candy bar before getting down to the business of casting my line. Dad told us that the fish wouldn’t bite if we were noisy. Was that his way of getting three little girls to stay quiet while watching our bobbers?
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These days, you might hear me singing, admittedly rather loudly, while patiently watching my bobber sway while being pushed by ripples caused by wind blowing across the water. That hasn’t deterred my husband from asking me to go fishing with him. He has been cleaning up the boat. It is cleaner than my car. LOL Each year we buy something new from Cabelas to make our fishing trip more enjoyable. I would love to find an inexpensive depth finder to replace the one we used to have. I will be checking out Promotion Code.org to find the most up to date coupon code to use before hitting the submit button for my purchase. I was, recently, able to save on the new paddle we purchased to go along with our required life vests. I have grown up to discover that along with candy bars and pop, it takes equipment to catch a few fish! Who’d have thunk it??

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