QoD: Which were your favorite Saturday morning cartoons as a child? Mine were Looney Tunes, Mighty Mouse & Underdog.
I had to watch my brother’s choices too, since there was only one TV in the house. He liked Jonny Quest, which I came to enjoy after a while. Also, he liked Sky King.
I remember all of those cartoons. I remember the Lone Ranger, too. I don’t remember a favorite, though. It was just so nice to have something on the television for kids. Our children and grandchildren have no idea, just like we had no idea what it was like for our parents not even having television when they were young. What might it be in the future!
My husband decided it was too cold to go to the monthly men’s breakfast this morning. We are old enough to not want to be out when it isn’t necessary.
I didn’t have a TV growing up. When I was 15 we moved to an isolated country community, not yet incorporated (the other side of the Grand Canyon from, but in the same county as, the infamous FLDS Mormons who still practice polygamy–I only found that out a couple of years ago), and my parents were used to getting news by radio but we couldn’t get radio signals, and so they went to two or three stores in the next town until they managed to find one black-and-white TV (they could have more easily bought a color one, but that seemed even more reprobate, I guess), and after that we discovered the Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan’s Island, etc. And we’d already discovered Little House on the Prairie on one stay in a hotel room (I’d even written about in once when a teacher asked the class to write about our favorite TV show and I had to write my paper based on having seen one episode of the show); now we could watch it regularly. During the commercials, if anything indecent was on (my mother was the judge of that), one of us girls was elected to jump to the TV and scramble the image, and then recreate it after the commercial was over, or by the time the show started again.
A few years before this, when I was about 12, a family moved in next door to us in Phoenix, a Mormon couple who were raising a four-year-old granddaughter. We ended up babysitting that granddaughter some, playing with her in her yard and ours, and otherwise interacting with the family a lot; she even called our mother Mom and we, not having any grandparents, sometimes called her grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. (They were friendly, but a totally dysfunctional family. One daughter bore this child out of wedlock and then didn’t raise her, and my last contact with them years later this child herself was still living with her grandmother in her twenties and had borne three or four little girls by different men and had beaten up her grandmother several times–the day I visited the granddaughter was out and had one daughter with her, but the great-grandmother was caring for the other ones at home. Another daughter married a black man just because the Mormons were so racist and she was giving them the finger. The older couple eventually divorced, but when they were our neighbors my mom thought he had another wife in Utah, since he spent about half his time there.) So yes, I grew up around Mormons, and no, not seeing them as having happy and nearly perfect families.
Sometimes when we were over at their house, the TV was on, so one of us would run home and ask Mom if we could watch “The Lone Ranger” or cartoons. Mom eventually said that if it was just cartoons, we didn’t have to ask. Mom was in her fifties with three pre-teens still at home, and I think she was happy enough to have us all next door for a couple of hours. “Tom and Jerry” became one of my favorites. And I liked the roadrunner and coyote, largely because I knew the animals they were based on; while no one could love the threadbare coyotes that lurked here and there and occasionally gave us a brief glimpse, roadrunners were a delight.
Morning! It is 57 degrees here…where did winter go anyway??
Saturday morning programs were wonderful. Sky King, Lone Ranger, Tarzan, Mighty Mouse, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Little Audrey…too many to list! Watching them all while eating our cereal…Trix, Sugar Pops, Frosted Flakes…that’s the day we indulged in the most unhealthy cereals!! Yuck!
I elected to stay home from church and join in by livestream–I’m so glad for that option.
See, we’ve had two snowfalls in the last 48 hours, totaling maybe half a foot. The car is (mostly) cleared off, and for the first snowfall I moved the car in time to get the driveway plowed (we’re in a condo and such things are done communally, but unfortunately since we don’t have a garage and we’re home full-time, usually our driveway doesn’t get plowed), but the second time it didn’t get plowed, and the temperature at the time I would have left this morning was 1 degree (F) with a high only into the teens. If the car were to keep going when backing down the sloped driveway (rather than turning onto the private street), it would end in a creek–and one car from the street on the other side of the creek did end up in the creek yesterday. I mean, I really don’t expect it to end up in the creek (but if it did, it would be really bad, since the creek is also a fair amount lower than our house, after two drop-offs). But basically the whole scenario is bad, several inches of snow that would be iced over anywhere it didn’t get plowed, hilly streets, dangerously cold weather, and a car that’s a bear to parallel park even in ideal circumstances. Seniors are allowed to park in the church parking lot, but I’m not old enough to qualify and my husband hasn’t left the house in weeks and certainly isn’t leaving it today.
After several years in Chicago, I realized I did OK in cold weather, even super-cold weather (say -20 degrees) as long as I was dressed warmly enough, and I did OK on snow as long as it was fresh and fluffy (not two-week-old icy snow). It was the combination that really did me in, the six or nine inches of snow followed quickly by sub-zero temperatures, where sometimes the snow hadn’t even been cleared well before the freezing, and even if the snow had been cleared there were inevitably icy patches. I found that combination frightening and depressing. I don’t see that combination all that often in southern Indiana–but that’s what we’re experiencing now. That second snow was also our fifth of the season, which is a lot by mid-December for this area.
It is very pretty out, because the sky is blue and the snow stuck to the trees. But I don’t think I will be stepping outdoors today.
Our small church decided not to meet today (-15 windchill), so we watched a live stream of another church which is less than a mile from our house. When it’s this cold, it’s not worth driving anywhere, even a mile away.
It is very windy and cold here but not so cold as you all are talking about. We went to Sunday school, church, and our Sunday school party. I was not up for going back in two hours for the 5 p.m. program.
A lady in our class made gift bags of ornaments she was ready to part with. They are very nice ornaments, not the type I am used to using. My ornaments are more about sentimental value than being more like designer ornaments. I also was given a special ornament a friend had salvaged from a wealthy family. It is a Hank Aaron ornament with a baseball card. I, who keep trying to downsize, end up with a collection of treasures, lol
Oh y’all it is 57 degrees here in the forest!! We want your winter!!!
I have donated most of my ornaments from the past. I have clip on birds on the tree (I collect them when I can find them!). I also hang glass crystal icicles and red glass ornaments…done and done! I did hang some candy canes on there too…it’s a sentimental offering. We would hang candy canes on the tree when Babe was alive. We always knew she was licking them as the stripes disappeared and the cane grew smaller and smaller. She thought she was getting away with it when we were gone…she always had pepperminty at Christmas!!! How we miss that girl!
NJ – I’m watching the Green Bay @ Denver game. Seeing people it short sleeves in December in Denver tells me it must be unusually warm. I’d gladly change our winter for yours.
We had -40 windchill this past week with actual temps down to -33F. I went to lunch with a friend 🙂
Driving home from church today we had rain and it was only 10F. That was a scary drive. Windshield defroster on full blast couldn’t keep up. Not to mention the rain freezing to the pavement. But we took it slowly and made it safely.
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As promised: Saturday morning (political) cartoons! Read the Friday thread for why they’re a day late.
QoD: Which were your favorite Saturday morning cartoons as a child? Mine were Looney Tunes, Mighty Mouse & Underdog.
I had to watch my brother’s choices too, since there was only one TV in the house. He liked Jonny Quest, which I came to enjoy after a while. Also, he liked Sky King.
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I remember all of those cartoons. I remember the Lone Ranger, too. I don’t remember a favorite, though. It was just so nice to have something on the television for kids. Our children and grandchildren have no idea, just like we had no idea what it was like for our parents not even having television when they were young. What might it be in the future!
My husband decided it was too cold to go to the monthly men’s breakfast this morning. We are old enough to not want to be out when it isn’t necessary.
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I didn’t have a TV growing up. When I was 15 we moved to an isolated country community, not yet incorporated (the other side of the Grand Canyon from, but in the same county as, the infamous FLDS Mormons who still practice polygamy–I only found that out a couple of years ago), and my parents were used to getting news by radio but we couldn’t get radio signals, and so they went to two or three stores in the next town until they managed to find one black-and-white TV (they could have more easily bought a color one, but that seemed even more reprobate, I guess), and after that we discovered the Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan’s Island, etc. And we’d already discovered Little House on the Prairie on one stay in a hotel room (I’d even written about in once when a teacher asked the class to write about our favorite TV show and I had to write my paper based on having seen one episode of the show); now we could watch it regularly. During the commercials, if anything indecent was on (my mother was the judge of that), one of us girls was elected to jump to the TV and scramble the image, and then recreate it after the commercial was over, or by the time the show started again.
A few years before this, when I was about 12, a family moved in next door to us in Phoenix, a Mormon couple who were raising a four-year-old granddaughter. We ended up babysitting that granddaughter some, playing with her in her yard and ours, and otherwise interacting with the family a lot; she even called our mother Mom and we, not having any grandparents, sometimes called her grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. (They were friendly, but a totally dysfunctional family. One daughter bore this child out of wedlock and then didn’t raise her, and my last contact with them years later this child herself was still living with her grandmother in her twenties and had borne three or four little girls by different men and had beaten up her grandmother several times–the day I visited the granddaughter was out and had one daughter with her, but the great-grandmother was caring for the other ones at home. Another daughter married a black man just because the Mormons were so racist and she was giving them the finger. The older couple eventually divorced, but when they were our neighbors my mom thought he had another wife in Utah, since he spent about half his time there.) So yes, I grew up around Mormons, and no, not seeing them as having happy and nearly perfect families.
Sometimes when we were over at their house, the TV was on, so one of us would run home and ask Mom if we could watch “The Lone Ranger” or cartoons. Mom eventually said that if it was just cartoons, we didn’t have to ask. Mom was in her fifties with three pre-teens still at home, and I think she was happy enough to have us all next door for a couple of hours. “Tom and Jerry” became one of my favorites. And I liked the roadrunner and coyote, largely because I knew the animals they were based on; while no one could love the threadbare coyotes that lurked here and there and occasionally gave us a brief glimpse, roadrunners were a delight.
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Was that when Rocky and Bullwinkle aired? I liked them. I also enjoyed Sky King.
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At some point I also enjoyed Scooby-Do, and was there a George of the Jungle? I did watch Looney Tunes, too.
“George, George, George of the Jungle, WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!”
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Morning! It is 57 degrees here…where did winter go anyway??
Saturday morning programs were wonderful. Sky King, Lone Ranger, Tarzan, Mighty Mouse, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Little Audrey…too many to list! Watching them all while eating our cereal…Trix, Sugar Pops, Frosted Flakes…that’s the day we indulged in the most unhealthy cereals!! Yuck!
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The temp is 66° right now. By 5 p.m. tomorrow, with wind chill it will feel like 20°. Not good! Our church Christmas program is tomorrow afternoon.
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How could I forget Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Tom and Jerry?
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Winter is here for a few days. Tomorrow a high of 11. Tuesday over 40. Welcome to December in Missouri.
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Winter can hang out in other places, but enough already in the South!
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Sorry for sending the cold your way, Janice. I blame Canada. 😉
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Cheryl, I am betting that black and white tv was cheaper, too, than a color version.
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the 400 mile bank of fog continues to blanket California
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I elected to stay home from church and join in by livestream–I’m so glad for that option.
See, we’ve had two snowfalls in the last 48 hours, totaling maybe half a foot. The car is (mostly) cleared off, and for the first snowfall I moved the car in time to get the driveway plowed (we’re in a condo and such things are done communally, but unfortunately since we don’t have a garage and we’re home full-time, usually our driveway doesn’t get plowed), but the second time it didn’t get plowed, and the temperature at the time I would have left this morning was 1 degree (F) with a high only into the teens. If the car were to keep going when backing down the sloped driveway (rather than turning onto the private street), it would end in a creek–and one car from the street on the other side of the creek did end up in the creek yesterday. I mean, I really don’t expect it to end up in the creek (but if it did, it would be really bad, since the creek is also a fair amount lower than our house, after two drop-offs). But basically the whole scenario is bad, several inches of snow that would be iced over anywhere it didn’t get plowed, hilly streets, dangerously cold weather, and a car that’s a bear to parallel park even in ideal circumstances. Seniors are allowed to park in the church parking lot, but I’m not old enough to qualify and my husband hasn’t left the house in weeks and certainly isn’t leaving it today.
After several years in Chicago, I realized I did OK in cold weather, even super-cold weather (say -20 degrees) as long as I was dressed warmly enough, and I did OK on snow as long as it was fresh and fluffy (not two-week-old icy snow). It was the combination that really did me in, the six or nine inches of snow followed quickly by sub-zero temperatures, where sometimes the snow hadn’t even been cleared well before the freezing, and even if the snow had been cleared there were inevitably icy patches. I found that combination frightening and depressing. I don’t see that combination all that often in southern Indiana–but that’s what we’re experiencing now. That second snow was also our fifth of the season, which is a lot by mid-December for this area.
It is very pretty out, because the sky is blue and the snow stuck to the trees. But I don’t think I will be stepping outdoors today.
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Our small church decided not to meet today (-15 windchill), so we watched a live stream of another church which is less than a mile from our house. When it’s this cold, it’s not worth driving anywhere, even a mile away.
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It is very windy and cold here but not so cold as you all are talking about. We went to Sunday school, church, and our Sunday school party. I was not up for going back in two hours for the 5 p.m. program.
A lady in our class made gift bags of ornaments she was ready to part with. They are very nice ornaments, not the type I am used to using. My ornaments are more about sentimental value than being more like designer ornaments. I also was given a special ornament a friend had salvaged from a wealthy family. It is a Hank Aaron ornament with a baseball card. I, who keep trying to downsize, end up with a collection of treasures, lol
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Oh y’all it is 57 degrees here in the forest!! We want your winter!!!
I have donated most of my ornaments from the past. I have clip on birds on the tree (I collect them when I can find them!). I also hang glass crystal icicles and red glass ornaments…done and done! I did hang some candy canes on there too…it’s a sentimental offering. We would hang candy canes on the tree when Babe was alive. We always knew she was licking them as the stripes disappeared and the cane grew smaller and smaller. She thought she was getting away with it when we were gone…she always had pepperminty at Christmas!!! How we miss that girl!
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NJ – I’m watching the Green Bay @ Denver game. Seeing people it short sleeves in December in Denver tells me it must be unusually warm. I’d gladly change our winter for yours.
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We had -40 windchill this past week with actual temps down to -33F. I went to lunch with a friend 🙂
Driving home from church today we had rain and it was only 10F. That was a scary drive. Windshield defroster on full blast couldn’t keep up. Not to mention the rain freezing to the pavement. But we took it slowly and made it safely.
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