Hi Everybuddie,
We were told sometime back by a computer tech, we had to get rid of some of our pictures! So like anybody does in the spring, we have been housecleaning the computer. We plan to put lots of them on a disc, so we don't lose them and toss what we don't care so much about.
But here is my problem, almost every picture I have saved tells me a little story, and I really love that. With this picture I am gonna show you today, its about my neighborhood when I was a kid. You couldn't go to anyone's house at certain times of the day because all the old ladies couldn't miss "their stories" which means soap operas. When they came to our house, they would drink coffee and TALK endlessly about what was going on . It would sort of aggravate my Mom, who couldn't hear well enough to make sense of the stories but she would pretend to be interested. So you can see why I fell in love with this
picture!
A very long time ago, there were about 20 or more stories (soaps) on daily. You had to carefully choose what to hear or see. But I think today they are down to six or so! But like my mother, I never caught the pleasure of seeing them!
Happy Springy Weather to everyone!
Jo, Stella and Zkhat
I certainly Remember NEVER being allowed to visit with my Favorite Neighbor... MRS. TROUT... From 2 until 3:30 in the afternoon. I loved that lady... she taught me to do embroidery... and told me stories about her Grandfather who was a P.O.W. during the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteSO I can truly relate to the not wanting to get rid of ANY pictures... they hold our MEMORIES for Us...
Once you get them onto Discs .... you can play them on your DVD player... and they will be BIG on the TV screen... WE love doing THAT.
Do you remember.... General Hospital??? THAT was a really popular "Soap".
that's cute. i never got into daytime tv, but i watched a few night-time soaps (dallas, dynasty, etc.)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a teen, my sister and I watched 'The Doctors' on days we had off from school. It always seemed we knew what was going on even if we missed several weeks in a row. Can't imagine how we did that. :)
ReplyDeleteFabulous picture! I love it, Jo!
ReplyDeleteHa! I remember my grandma and great aunts all had sacred time for soaps, too. In the summer, I'd watch with them and I remember very fondly the discussions that would happen about the characters in those shows. I was really sad to see As The World Turns end because it was a link to those days!
ReplyDeletePriceless photo! And cute story.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great photo!
ReplyDeleteInteresting, I have never heard soap operas referred to as 'stories' in the UK. Watching them was never a habit in our family, which in part accounts for my poor performances on 'quiz nights'!
Cheers, Gail.
Daytime tv no but some evening soaps yes and we call it no brainer time. Have a fabulous Friday.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes Molly
Ok, confession time. I got hooked on soaps when I was a little girl. When I came home for lunch my grandmother would be watching her stories so we'd eat lunch together in front of the TV. I still watch one most days and now Rob watches with me. I was even named after a soap character.
ReplyDeleteI like "my stories" still today!
ReplyDeletehello jo and stella and zkhat its dennis the vizsla dog hay my mama and dada never reely watchd storeez i gess at leest until mama got totaly adikted to braking bad on the netflix!!! wich i gess is the storry of how sumbuddy wuz not aybel to stop his kar in a timely fashun!!! but ennyway they ar dun with braking bad now and dada sez mama is having withdrawal frum her storeez so i gess its just like with the soap operas after all!!! ok bye
ReplyDeleteHi Jo,
ReplyDeleteAbout your photos you can imagine how many I have and some are not good but I can not part with any. I bought a WD portable hard drive it just plugs into a usb port and you can put all your pictures on it. Then if you want to look at them you just plug it in to a usb port. When my last computer just stopped I still had all my photos and videos and could bring whatever I want back on to the new one.
It cost me about £49.00 you get different size GB even TB now its called a pass port its about the size of a passport. I hope this is helpful.
Love the picture.
Licks Bobby& Pip
I see why you love your photos. I love mine too! My advice would be NOT to get rid of any of those precious photos. Maybe you can get a small external hard drive to store them on. And/or you could subscribe to an online backup service so that you have second copies stored someplace else.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a plan like that for my photos right now.
Love the one you showed today plus the story!
KB, have you priced a small external hard drive? Bobby (up above you) says he paid 49 pounds for his in the UK, but of what I have seen on the net, $57 is the cheapest I can find. I really think I would prefer this method, rather than the service, because I have to remove mine to get some RAM back on this computer.
DeleteI am sending you a old used external drive that I don't use. It is not sleek and beautiful and is a bit banged up but it works well and should hold your treasures... and I do not have to fret about adding more unused electronic stuff to my life...consider it my asking you to give this poor old thing a loving home.
ReplyDeleteAnd to go back even further when I was a child we lived with my grandma and every day she listened to "Stella Dallas" on the radio....:)
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DeleteHey Troutbirder!
How about Ma Perkins and her pal Shuffle Shober on the radio? Every day there was for years!
Jo
That's a fun picture! I always had too much to do to watch the "stories", but the cat sure looks relaxed while watching.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 60s my grandmother was a Guiding Light fanatic! She wouldn't even answer the phone during that time of day.
ReplyDeleteA gzillion years ago when the earth whas flat and my the Mom whas young... she whatched All My Children, dreaming ob a day when All Her Children would have FOUR legs!!!
ReplyDeleteWe sure miss yeu! Stop by from time teu time, when yeu get a chance.
wif lubbs from Little Reufus and the ancient Mom
Awwww that is too cute xxoxxx
ReplyDeleteMollie and Alfie
Deaw Jo, Stella and Zkhat,
ReplyDeleteMommi and i cewtainly undewstand about yoow stowies that the picshoowes conjoowe up..the good thing is, those stowies awe fuwwevew in yoow heawt and mind
Smoochie kisses
Asta
Mum backs ours up on little usb sticks, they can hold quite a lot.
ReplyDeleteMy grandma never liked soaps so mum doesn't either, but she did get her into scifi like startrek!
SO good teu hear from yeu! Habbs a wonderful week!!! We are sending yeu all... eudles ob lubbs!!!
ReplyDeleteLittle Reufus and the Mom
back in the 60's i was hooked on 3 soaps, so much that when i got off work at 3 i raced home to not miss more than 15 minutes. this was before recorders and DVR... i stopped watching them in the early 80's because i was at work. i don't watch them now but the series we watch at night are just night time soaps.. NCIS and all those other shows, that is what they are. thanks for stopping by my post yesterday
ReplyDeleteforgot to say i love your header
ReplyDeleteYep, i remember i couldn't bother my grandma during All my children!
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