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[Chickielady]

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Dude not me. I am just not that old. I do remember Wunda Wunda though. I think it was the first thing I may have seen on a TV. But I have to remember that we never had a TV that belonged to out family while I was growing up. I do remember that the first thing I ever saw on a color TV was the Beatles sing I want to hold your hand at stadium. I can remember understanding sort of why the girls were so excited, but I still knew that they were spassed out for crying and fainting. I just wanted to sing with the band.

J P Patches was great too. I can't remember any other shows from that time.

Okay I am nearly that old.

Edited to add that I still love Wunda Wunda.

Captain Kangeroo (& Mr Green Jeans !! Bunny Rabbit and "What time is it ??? It's Howdy Doody Time !!!!"

 

[jbear]

Ellensburg would be great!

CR--it is NOT snowing here. or slushing. or anything.

It was trying to snow early this AM as I was feeding everyone. Then it stopped. so sad.

 

[Ogress]

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OMG,OMG, I lived in the same area, only I moved there after HS, and I only lived there for about a year before I moved away from home in 1987 when I finished my AS at West Valley College and transferred to UC Davis.

I lived off Quito Road too! I lived on Smith Creek Drive for a short while in Los Gatos, though across the street from us the homes were in Saratoga, and the street behind us was Monte Sereno, and a block to the north was Campbell. If you drove down Quito Road, past Bucknall to where the road gets windy (and I think it is still called Quito in that section), there is a street called Bicknell, take that to the end and make a right, and that was my street. I grew up in San Jose and went to Gunderson HS. We moved to the Smith Creek house in late 85. My sister went to Campbell HS until my mom made a stink and got her in to Los Gatos HS (She hated LG ... poor girl went to 3 different HS which is hell on the social life of a HS girl). She did marry her sweetheart from Campbell HS, and they live in Lincoln now.

I remember the crazy turns on Quito Road with the yellow speed signs 19 mph!!! (Why not 20?) Someone was always altering it to read 19 1/4 mph, their edit looked legit too.

I love Pismo Beach.

 

[Ogress]

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Come here ... we have 3-4"

 

[Ogress]

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I remember those! I liked Mr Green Jeans (though our TV was B&W)

 

[SadieSue]

Was is SadieSue looking for coop ideas? Here's a link to a page with some of ours: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/vie … oop-duplex

We started with a walk in shed that we converted into a coop. We like the raised coops better. We just roll a wheelbarrow up to the "man-door" and clean out with a rake or hoe or metal dust pan. Just don't make it too deep that you can't reach into the far corners. With the coops built on the ground, you can get rats, weasels and what not living underneath. With the raised coops, the birds can get shelter from the sun/rain underneath.

Thank you for the link - that's a nice set-up! All good suggestions, and certainly in keeping with the direction I'm going. I like a raised coop as well, with a convenient "man-door", (I also like that name for it). I hadn't considered until Greg pointed out that I needed to be cautious when planning my coop to not make it too deep so my arms can't reach in for cleaning. Right now I'm thinking 4X6 - 4X8 on legs for the coop, screened in underneath, pop door leading into a larger covered pen. When we're in the yard, the girls can come out of the pen, but I don't want them unattended. Even here in University Place, right next to Tacoma, we have plenty of eagles and hawks.
Thank you all for great suggestions. I can read a million books, but I find the practical ideas I get from all of you a lot more helpful.​

 

[Chickielady]

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OMG,OMG, I lived in the same area, only I moved there after HS, and I only lived there for about a year before I moved away from home in 1987 when I finished my AS at West Valley College and transferred to UC Davis.

I lived off Quito Road too! I lived on Smith Creek Drive for a short while in Los Gatos, though across the street from us the homes were in Saratoga, and the street behind us was Monte Sereno, and a block to the north was Campbell. If you drove down Quito Road, past Bucknall to where the road gets windy (and I think it is still called Quito in that section), there is a street called Bicknell, take that to the end and make a right, and that was my street. I grew up in San Jose and went to Gunderson HS. We moved to the Smith Creek house in late 85. My sister went to Campbell HS until my mom made a stink and got her in to Los Gatos HS (She hated LG ... poor girl went to 3 different HS which is hell on the social life of a HS girl). She did marry her sweetheart from Campbell HS, and they live in Lincoln now.

I remember the crazy turns on Quito Road with the yellow speed signs 19 mph!!! (Why not 20?) Someone was always altering it to read 19 1/4 mph, their edit looked legit too.

I love Pismo Beach.

We lived on Halifax Dr, right off Yorkton Rd, which went down the hill to Westmont High School...Campbell High was out arch rivals !!!
Yup, that was my old stomping grounds, all freeways now.
I started at West Valley College in Architecture, and had to quit due tomorning sickness !!!

We had horses at the little ranch where the rail road tracks cross Quito Road, and we could ride all the wat up to Lexington Reservoir or over the hill to Santa Cruz.

 

[SadieSue]

Am I the only one here that grew up in the 60s? Anymore retired Hippies? Hello?

Pseudo hippie on the tail end of the movement, although if you saw photos of me from the early 70's you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Patched jeans, peasant blouses, headbands, long hair parted down the middle, listening to lots of great music. And then I grew up. But stowed away somewhere is that black light, posters rolled up for safe-keeping, incense burner, and Indian tapestries, along with some treasured memories!​

 

[Ogress]

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Pseudo hippie on the tail end of the movement, although if you saw photos of me from the early 70's you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Patched jeans, peasant blouses, headbands, long hair parted down the middle, listening to lots of great music. And then I grew up. But stowed away somewhere is that black light, posters rolled up for safe-keeping, incense burner, and Indian tapestries, along with some treasured memories!

I looked like that all the way through the late 70's, listened to the music too, and everyone told me I was born a decade too late for my style. What I remember from the 70's are my mom's loudly patterned polyester pant suits and our foil wallpaper and ugly linoleum floors that looked much the same as the pantsuits. Oh, and raking the two-tone shag carpeting. What I liked best was my blue bicycle with the banana seat ... I could take the neighborhood for a ride around the block on that thing, and I was the only one in our family to have a new bike, not one made from parts bought at the San Jose Flea Market. (Daddy's pet)

 

[SadieSue]

Also from the bay area. I was born in Palo Alto,

Wow - quite a few bay area connections here. I was born in San Francisco at The Presidio. My father was in the navy, but out to sea at the time. My Mom talks about she was 18,so excited to have had her first baby, prepared with a purse full of dimes but no one to call...

We moved away when I was two, back to Tacoma where she was from. But when *I* was 18, just graduated from high school, I went to Palo Alto with a guy friend of mine to stay with some friends of his who lived at - no lie - 207 High street in Palo Alto. These were real hippies, making tooled leather goods and selling them at the street fairs on the weekends, working all night at the Whole Earth bakery, garbage canning for ripe veggies and fruits from the grocery store bins to make the most awesome whole wheat crust deep dish pizzas, meditating in the evenings, and giving the most incredible mind blowing massages for good health. Beautiful, sweet boys who showed us a world we hadn't had an opportunity to explore before. But eventually my money ran out, I decided I wanted to eat red meat again and I missed my family so I came home. That was a pretty entertaining summer though...