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Sharon: your article brought back memories of those heartaching days of unrequited teenage love, which is one thing I wouldn't relive for anything in the world! I guess in those days we all had our little "hidey holes," which was anywhere away from adults with a good book and no brothers, sisters or cousins to pester us!
BTW, I remember when women were first allowed (at least in the South) to start wearing pantsuits to work instead of dresses or skirts. Remember? Oh, my goodness, what a breakthrough that was. Even as a child, the only time we could wear jeans to school was when it snowed and we had to walk to school in the snow, so I wore blue jeans under my dress to school, took them off once I got there and put them back on for the trip home. Today's women have no idea how far we've come, but not all of it has been progress. Somewhere along the line we lost the respect once afforded women and we did that to ourselves, methinks.
Didn't mean to ramble here, but your articles always stir other memories to life for me. Excellent, as usual.
Ladies, you always make me smile!
I do remember wearing jeans under my dresses. And they had to be dresses, not skirts, unless I wore those danged suspenders to hold them up. Or maybe jumpers. Sometimes it was corduroys, not jeans...and that little tidbit will appear in an article, you can be sure.
Thank you for writing, and for reading the article. It is fun to wonder as I write, and I always wonder who will have the same memories. You all make writing fun.
I hope you all have some of my sunshine in your day.
Sharon
I also loved your story. Although I didn't grow up in the south, there were lots of locust trees in the woods behind my house. And I also grew up in the era when females didn't wear "pants", slacks either. We had some for playing in the yard and leggings for the snow. Even in college, it was forbidden to wear pants anywhere on campus. If we were going to PE, we were allowed to wear our gym jumpers only with a raincoat over them. Young women today can't imagine how different it really was. I can be nostalgic for skirts, I rarely wear one, but I don't want to go back to other aspects of the "good old days". Women are still struggling for equal pay for equal work and not to be judged by their appearance. I doubt the latter will ever change.
Thanks Sharran for another wonderful story. I look forward and enjoy all your articles. They are very similar to the stories I have heard from the old timey mountain people in this area.
Keep them coming!
I too, had my trees. I made a little home under a circle of pine trees. The fallen needles were my carpet as I read many books.
I did not know that the posts from locust last 50 years; you have taught me something new again. Do termites not bother them?
I don't wear dresses much anymore...too stupid many required skirts and dresses when I was growing. Our church required no pants or shorts for woman but dad and mom said it was better to wear pants than to show it all. So, if we were at home, pants were fine.
Some old school Accounting firms still want women to wear dresses. How ignorant is that? Can we do better Accounting in a dress? The firm where I work changed that requirement just 2 years ago.
On a totally side note on this thread:
Funny, in some fields woman receive equal pay for less work. My DH worked in a shop 10 years ago where the woman wanted (and received) the same pay but complained about how heavy the machinery parts were and asked the men to carry the parts around for them so the men couldn't get their own work done as quickly. Many women (me included) don't want to be judged by their appearance but we women have to overcome the sabatoge woman that dress to expose their body because they lust to be lusted after. About 23 years ago, a woman came to a job interview (she thought it would be with the owner of the company) her white shirt open way too far, exposing herself. Little did she know, her interview was with a 22 year old female who was not impressed that a woman owned such things. She did not buy a job that day.
Funny story there at the end, sad but true.
Policies change with the times, some good some not so good. I guess we'll never have it just exactly right.
I was looking through my paperwork, and realize that I have done a bunch of articles about trees. Interesting how big a part they played in my life. For many others too, it seems. And yes, I know all about the needles under the pines, too.
I have not researched termites in locust posts, but don't seem to remember that there were any when I was growing up with locust posts all over our place. Our house was built in 1921, and the outbuildings soon thereafter, including a shed type thing that became a carport when I was very small. The posts for the shed were of locust, and they are still standing today. I can't remember if some of the fence posts are still there or not, but I do know that there were railroad ties made from locust in the area. Might be something to look into. I didn't think of termites when I was writing the article.
Thanks for writing, always so nice to hear from you.
