Colder this morning, with new snow covering the ground. Yesterday afternoon before we left Janie's it was snowing huge puffy flakes, that floated to earth like down from a duck.
I finally got to see Hallie's seven, month old, border collie puppies, four girls and three boys. Three of them are sporting naturally "bob tails" and they are all cuddly, fat, and adorable. Hallie is a very proud Mama but is getting a little tired of all the attention they demand, plus they want to eat continually. They have a warm place to sleep and play among the straw bales and will soon go to new homes. I have loved puppies from childhood. The smells, sounds and antics as they play and frolic with each other is a delight to watch.
Write group, as usual, was a great time. We had a new lady, "Leta" join us as a possible member of our group. We all read and discussed something we had written and then wrote again as a group. Then we talked more over lunches that we brought, and later we played scrabble into the late afternoon. It has become a special Tuesday and a way for us to recharge our "creativity" and relax among friends.
Caught up on scrabble games at home, chatted with Bob on ichat, and Herb and I read until bedtime.
❈BS ❝I had only visited Boise a few times and never lived in a city, alway on a farm. I had to get use to all of the different sounds and smells. Living that close to two hospitals, we heard sirens daily, they would interrupt my dreams and bring me out of a dead sleep. I never really got use to them. The Excelsis BS was quite large, main floor and full basement, with forty or more students attending at any one time. It was located just off of Boise's main St., on Front St. where there were several bars, and all the "bums" hung out. Another shock for this country girl. Homeless people were as foreign to me as someone from Russia would have been. Occasionally they would wander into the school, an open bottle of beer in their back pocket, looking for a handout.
I would be going to school six days a week, with only Sundays off. Theory class started at 8am, then practical classes until 5pm with an hour off for lunch. Your schooling was based on hours accumulated toward your state requirement. Idaho's requirement was two thousand hours of instruction. We were separated as: Beginners, intermediate and advanced students.
I started school on June 1,1960, two weeks after H.S. graduation. I started school with another girl, Shari, we became fast friends. We were both serious students. We quickly learned how to cut, perm and style hair, taking classes and practicing in the basement on mannequin heads and each other. By September we were practicing as beginners. This was just in time for the back to school special. It was advertised as two perms for the price of one or two perms for $5.00, bring a friend, or your kids etc. A shampoo-set started at $2.00, haircut $1.00, perms $5.00 and went up from there depending on the students experience. Free manicures on Mon.-Wed. so we beginners could practice on real people.
A class of 20 new students started BS the 1st of September, so Shari and I were very proud of our status as students working on the "Floor". Most of the new class of students were from a different mold, they looked at their new found freedom as a ticket to "party". Coming in late for school (a definite no-no) skipping school altogether, and getting docked double hours (this is now illegal). It was not unusual for them to come to school hung-over, and many of them took up smoking in the break room. Both Shari and I were from Mormon families, she attended church, I did not. But both of us were going to BS with a definite goal in mind. We were both engaged, planned to finish school in ten months so we could get married the following June.❞ TBC
Time to get up and moving, have a "Big Read" movie tonight, Pat and I will go out for food and conversation before hand. Until tomorrow owav:)
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