Boise Memories

We moved to Boise from Pocatello the summer (August?) of 1971.

I was in choir from grades 7-12.

Mom harvested grapes off of a concord grape vine in the back yard and made grape juice from them. Some of them may have turned alcoholic as I remember she had to pour some out.

Mom and Dad harvested peaches off of a large peach tree we had in the back yard.  Canning all those peaches seemed to take days and days.  We all helped peel and slice those bushels of peaches while Mom canned them.

We also had a large willow tree in the back yard that was fun to climb.  Eventually, it had to be cut down as it was getting into the telephone wires.  There was a pine tree in the front yard that was considered to be Sharon's.  Eventually, it got so big that Mom and Dad donated it to the City and they replanted it in Ann Morrison park.

I learned to bake while living in Boise.  One time, I made sugar cookies, but didn't look at the recipe closely enough and thought the sugar ingredient was actually salt.  So I added about 2 cups of salt to those cookies.  I thought it seemed strange but was still new to baking so I went ahead and added the salt.  Wow those cookies were bad.

When I was older and was attending BSU, I also attended the church's Institute for religious classes and participated in their summer productions.  We did Now's The Time and Saturday's Warrior's at the Boise State Event Center,  Those were great times.

We enjoyed playing games as a family.  We played Scrabble quite a bit and Mom typically won those games.  We played Sorry too.  We also played a game of Tom's called Milles Bourne (sp?) that was a lot of fun.  The kids played Monopoly and Easy Money.

Mom sewed my dresses when I was a teenager until I learned how to sew.  Linda also learned how to sew and is quite the seamstress!