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| Ruth and Jerry Halterman, 1944 |
Jerry Jack Halterman (7 May 1922 - 25 November 2002)
Happy Birthday, Grandpa!
Things
That I did in the Good Ole Days
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| Jerry Jack Halterman |
1.
Ran outside with entire class of students or entire
family to search the sky every time an airplane was heard.
2.
Made apple cider for neighborhood gang; retained the last
of the squeezings for our own use, gave other portions away; stored bottles of
cider in irrigation ditch where the elixir would retain it sweet taste for several days.
3.
During the Springtime of the year we dug apples to eat
from under a blanket of snow and leaves-where they had been all winter.
4.
Helped baby chicks emerge from their cracking shells by
breaking portions of the shell away from the chick.
5.
Went a whole week (lots of times)without a bath
6.
Tormented bats during early evening hours by throwing
small pebbles in the air close to where they were feeding on flying insects;
the bats would mistakenly dart for the stones.
7.
Went barefooted all summer long-not by choice, but of
necessity.
8.
Made barrel stave boats; and then with the boats tied
to a long cord and rod, we roared up and down the irrigation ditches, with our
creations.
9.
Joined other
members of our family in waging an all-out battle to rid our home of bed bugs.
10. Went elderberry and choke-cherry gathering in
the mountains.
11. Destroyed blackbird and sparrow nests that
were located in haystacks and sage brush patches on the farm; this activity was
designed to minimize crop damage due to birds.
12. Hunted so-called rash birds with our flippers and BB guns in
an effort to reduce crop damage.
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| Back: Austin, Lynn, Elwyn Front: Daryl, Jerry Jack, Bob |
13. Chewed black tar as a substitute for chewing
gum
14. Ate
germade for breakfast; toast and milk or bread and milk and onions for
supper-lot of times.
15. Witnessed
smokers roll their own cigarettes using Bull Durham tobacco and brown paper-oft
times on windy days.
16. Bottle-fed bummer lambs.
17. Participated
in the activities of making candles from animal fats, paraffin and cord.
18. Went
sailing out of main canyon riding on an old car (chassis); vehicle had no
brakes and only a short tongue for control of steering. (We took our chances no
one would be in our way as we reached U.S. 91)
19. Turned a ripe cat-tail loose in the house;
only once!
20. Occasionally after school we were treated by
uncle Tommy Bennett to cheese curd and buttermilk at the local cheese factory.
21. I ate my fill of cherries from a
neighbor cherry orchard-without permission.
22. Got caught by our dad and a neighbor while in
the act of using our fake credit card to requisition a few of the choicest
cherries in our town.
23. Watched hen chickens lay eggs; make a nest of
incubate eggs; hatch out baby chicks; and show their chicks how to scratch for food.
24. Skated to school from our home using clamp-on
ice skates and skating on hard packed snow.
25. Threw clod bombs (a mixture of dust, root
mass, and long stemmed grass) at various targets in pea patches; always called
out o! as missle was launched and very
quickly lowered our heads and attempted to look very busy at the task on
hand-pea picking.
26. Played
teams with our rubber-band shooting wooden guns in every barnyard in our
end of town.
27. Caused mom to run short on clothes pins
because we used so many on the guns that we made.
28. Went to great lengths in assembling and
safe-guarding collections of old nails, shingles, colored rocks, flippers, and
rubber guns.
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| Back: Susan, Bill, Debbie Front: Karen, Ruth, Jerry |
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