August 12, 2008

• Good morning

  Got all my stuff entered into the Fair yesterday, along with the kids stuff.  It only took about 2 hours.  LOL  So much paperwork.  The kids hung out in the fair green doing cartwheels and summersaults and eventually ended up finding one of their friends from church who was also bored.  The girls that were entering stuff came with me, and then would get sent back out after they had done the filling in on the paperwork that they could do.  I figured they should share in the misery. 

  The funniest part of entering things was in the Art barn.  Zeria had colored a picture she wanted to enter.  The people in this barn tend to be a bit umm snobbish, but she really wanted to enter, so I let her.  When we got in there two of the ladies were using typewriters to fill out paperwork.  Zeria stared at them and said.  "What are those?"

  I just laughed and laughed, and so did the ladies there.  One of the ladies had Zeria come over and she showed her how it worked.  Zeria was very impressed and thought it was quite cool.

  I won't tell her the kind of type writer I learned to type on.  My mom bought me a true antique at a garage sale and I spent hours playing on that thing.  It was a manual, that you threw the thing back itself, and was made in my mind in the dark ages.  *snickers* It looked very much like this.  She would have been truely impressed by it.

   

  

  Isn't it amazing how technology changes?

  Both my mom and dad lived in houses that didn't have running water or electricity until the 8th grade.  Its astounding how much things change, and yet how much they stay the same.

  Today is my last day of leading baton in practice.  Thursday is the recital at the fair, and then the moms in Port Angeles are on there own.

   

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