From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed May 10 21:42:00 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4B3g0jb017059; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:42:00 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4B3fusI006759 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:41:56 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4B181FI031090 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:08:01 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4B181tC031089 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:08:01 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4B0LvFI030960 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:21:57 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4B2tgbv022214 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:55:42 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Wed May 10 20:55:41 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4B2tfjb022203 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:55:41 -0600 Received: from web60925.mail.yahoo.com (web60925.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.253]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k4B2tdPK018467 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:55:40 -0600 Received: (qmail 85336 invoked by uid 60001); 11 May 2006 02:55:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=6nrZJEyakVp2AQRnSoWZ/G5UxCVmOe++qGoiAoCILPDZj3mv4WpQGNgAX+JphUU/iiYqyC1bXW6V58hYlI8JPtUVDDm/DQQ5Fg1E8ZlBHIltbnT3zF/ZwsFIRtdgIxmaNsUPrI6mj1bz+IUjfTdlOArIT1qLD/uizwTCD+YICZ0= ; Message-ID: <20060511025535.85334.qmail@web60925.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60925.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 10 May 2006 19:55:35 PDT Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 19:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k4B2tgbv022214 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k4B0LvFI030960 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com X-Spam-Score: 1.226 (*) BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET Subject: [ROOTS-L] Memories 'Round The Mill I Miss My Mother Mothers Day is coming up soon and there is not a day go by that I do not think of my mom Hazel Odle. I grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma when it was a very small mill town. I grew up in the years right after ¡°THE GREAT DEPRESSION¡± when most folks had very little money and it was very rare to ever leave the little town where you lived. The only thing I knew about the world was what I saw at the ten-cent movies at the Ritz Theatre and I wanted a life like those folks on the screen seemed to have. And I had a wild imagination that I sometimes acted out. All those people in the movies smoked and drank cocktails and they had stepparents and their parents were always getting divorces. Those folks portrayed the classy folks, so I thought. Growing up in Yukon, Oklahoma I did not know anyone that was divorced. I only knew one kid that had a stepmother and that was because his mother died. My relatives did not believe in divorces and it would not do them any good if they did believe in divorce because they never would have had enough money to get one. My parents seldom ever drank anything alcoholic and it sure wasn¡¯t cocktails. I use to believe if you only lived in a big City you could afford to go to night Clubs dancing and drinking cocktails and smoking. My parents were the dependable, plain kind of parents that you could always count on when you needed them. They didn¡¯t put on airs they could not afford them. My folks were content and happy with the hand God dealt them to play out. I left Yukon when I was to young and I wanted to live the wild classy life. The only think wild about me was my imagination. I had and exciting line I fed the big City girls as I wanted to appear to be classy. I use to tell girls my mom was my step-mom because I thought I would be classy if I had a Stepmother. Some how my mom was ask if she was my step-mom. I wish that had never happened because that hurt my mom and she never got over it. I tried to explain it to her, but she never understood. I am now 72 years old and I am very proud to say my parents were just common every day folks who lived ¡®round the Mills all their life and loved every minute of their life. They did not have much but what they had they would share with anyone. And what they had you cannot find in any movie or big City. I have always been sorry that I hurt my mom. All my life I bought her expensive gifts and after she died I discovered all of those expensive gifts were still in their boxes un-opened. I had my share of Night Clubs, smoking, cocktails, and yes Divorces. I also had my share of being a step dad and I can tell you now that it is not what it was cracked up to be! I have always wondered if I had stayed in my hometown of Yukon and Lived ¡®round the Mills and married a local girl if my life would have been different. I know I would not have hurt my mother. My advice to young people growing up ¡®round the Mill is to treat your mother like every day is mothers day. And for Pete sakes do not smoke or drink cocktails and stay out of night clubs, and marry some one you went to school all of your life with. I want to wish mothers everywhere a very HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! And Yukon Mothers I wish you the best Mothers Day that you have ever celebrated. My mother was a wonderful cook. Mom could make something good out of nothing. Mother made this HERSHEY CHOCOLATE CAKE from a recipe that was on the Hershey Coco can in the 1930¡¯s and 1940¡¯s that has to be the best chocolate cake I ever tasted. And I loved her meringue pies; Chocolate, Banana Cream and real lemon meringue. My mother made the best Spanish rice back in the days before we were ever introduced to Mexican Food. My mothers meat loaf was to die for, she also made meat loaf gravy witch most folks do not make any more. I can still smell her home baked bread she mixed up daily, with home churned real butter and home canned strawberry preserves. Mother liked to bake ginger bread and peanut butter and oatmeal cookies that we would eat as fast as they came out of the oven. One time when I come down to see my folks my sister Carol Dickerson and her family was there at mothers house. My sister and I and her four-year-old son Jeff was sitting around the kitchen table watching my mom bake cookies. Every time mother dumped some cookies that just came out of the oven Jeff would grab one and my sister and I would take turns taking Jeff¡¯s cookie and we would jokingly tell him those cookies were to hot for little boys to eat, then we would eat the cookie. Jeff¡¯s big brown eyes would get so big in disbelief. We kept this up for about one hour before we ever let that boy have a cookie. We were just having fun teasing Jeff! Lots of folks in Yukon have eaten the good food my mother cooked when she managed the Grill at the old Conrad Mar Drug store. I hope if my mother is looking down from Heaven , or if she gets THE YUKON REVIEW in Heaven that she will know that I love her and I wish her a very Happy Mothers Day. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.