MY LITTLE ROOM

Have been watching the birds come early in the morning to my neighbor's t.v. antennas, then again at night around 8:15.  A blackbird or two usually come and go back and forth to the big tree on the right and also fly back and forth from the left.  A couple of little bitty birds come and go also.  I get a kick out of the little bird--can't hardly see him/her, in yonder antenna,2 hours from sunset.  Is it hot on his/her feet?  Must not be, as he/she's' still sitting there.  Oh, very important, my neighbor's camphor sapling, grew right up so I can see it as I sit at my desk across the driveway.  Must have grown one foot this week.  So excited .   So much life in my little room upstairs, facing East. 

Birds

Birds are flying

photo of Austin

This my little love bug, Austin

Tilton

Tilton movies downtown

My Room

Next to my Mom and Dad's bedroom, which faced East towards Summer Street, like the guest room, was my bedroom, a little room facing South.  It overlooked two huge poplar trees and the Foster's big field, their garden and their house.  Roscoe Prescott, our handyman and political contributor to the Journal Transcript Newspaper (I thought he was very good) made me a white painted three-shelf bookcase, which held all the books my Mom thought would be good for me to read.  I was not a reader, and for the most part, they gathered dust, except for the one time I had a spurt of energy and read a few of them in a short period of time (think it was the Bobbsy Twin Books) and that was the end of that!

I spent a lot of time there sick from school.  When I was six I had whooping cough one summer (moved into my Mom and Dad's room then) and double pneumonia the next winter (moved downstairs on the couch where it was warm).  I almost died from these two.  I had measles, German measles, mumps, scarletina, many bad head colds and missed a lot of school.  My Mom rubbed my chest with Vic's Vaporub and put a flannel cloth over it for whatever ailed me.  I missed a lot of school, which is why I'm not so good at math and fractions, as I was out of school when lot of that was taught.  I listened to the radio when I was sick--Stella Dallas, the soap operas and remember the song, DUZ does everything."

The light blue wallpaper had Little Bo Peep all over it and when I got older, I felt I outgrew it, which is why I may have moved to the guest room when I was eleven. I remember the G.I.'s from WW2, renting rooms (we needed the income) while going to Tilton for post graduate classes.  They had a winter carnival and their dates stayed at the house and the boys stayed somewhere else.  I papered my wall with movie starts to impress the girls.  My favorites were Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Betty Grable and Jane Powell.  I thought they were so beautiful.  Don't remember thinking the movie-start men were particularly handsome, so didn't paste them up.

Next to my room was the screened sleeping  porch where we slept in the summer --Mom, Dad and I in my tiny bed. It was totally open on two sides.  I would watch the moon peak in and out of the poplar trees and watch the stars and listen to the sounds of the hoot owls.  I loved sleeping in the outdoors, high up on the second floor and waking up with the sun in my face in the morning.

Across from the sleeping room, facing North, to the left of the bathroom, overlooking the Grange Hall was another bedroom, where my cousin, Richard, slept when he came to live with us, and before that, the G.I.'s and before that, Hazel, my Mom's helper and my babysitter.  There was a sixth bedroom way in the back, next to the big two-story barn.  A door in that room led to the upstairs of the barn where Dad used to have a radio station--WBRL--the first radio station in New Hampshire in the mid 1920's...

May 3-2016

John and I are at computer.

5-3-16

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