In rural Grimes County, Texas, in the early 1950s following the end of WWII which began recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930s, a little girl lived with her parents and maternal grandmother in a small Sears Roebuck house in an even smaller town of Richards (pop. 440) at the edge of the East Texas Piney Woods. These pictures are the fourth of her stories that depict her early childhood in that faraway time and place, the place where the little girl started learning to laugh at life.

why is my snowman so tiny, mama? and why is he wearing a bonnet?

Scooter the puppy, is now Scooter, the big dog

Uncle Neville made balloons for the little country girl on her visit

to the bright lights and big city of Houston with her grandmother

summer visit on Posey Street in Houston with Grandma Dude, Grandma’s sister Aunt Selma, and their mother we all called Grandma Schlinke – everyone having fun? (except great- Grandma Schlinke who managed a rare smile – I don’t think she liked fun)

what’s so funny? this little boy thinks he can ride my tricycle

Take your hands off my tricycle

that’s the funniest thing I ever heard

Thanks for hanging in with us – the school experience is next for the little girl. It’s the final segment of the saga ushering in a whole new world of possibilities on her horizon. She can’t wait!