All this week I have watched my daughter learning the delights of vinyl! Remember the 4-in-1 that was one of my anniversary gifts? Eler Beth thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread!
She has computers and computer games, televisions in every room (practically), at least six or seven different games systems between her and her brother, CDs, DVDs, videos, and cassettes, but she had never experiened vinyl before! She has seen our record albums, but I guess we've never had a turntable since she was born. She has been playing records all week! It has been wonderful: we've had CCR, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Monkees, Sam Cooke, Simon and Garfunkle, John Mellencamp, and so many more, blaring in all their scratchy, vinyl goodness! She asked me where we could buy more! I said that you could find them in thrift stores and at yard sales, so she talked Thomas into taking her to our local Goodwill store on Thursday. She came back with several albums including The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, and Bill Cosby! I love it!
She has also had a lot of fun taking care of her two bonsai plants. She told me that the tropical one is a girl and her name is Vivie; the ficus bonsai is a boy, and his name is Lincoln! Yesterday was Kid's Fun Day at one of our local chain department stores, so we spent the morning there. We sampled a lot of things and got some freebies, including a goldfish. We have not had fish in years, and I said I'd never have them again. Well, we now have a common goldfish named John happily swimming around in his gold fish bowl on a table in the living room. Oh well, we had a good time, and I just couldn't say no to a free goldfish when those big, brown eyes were looking so beseechingly into mine! (That's Eler Beth's big, brown eyes, not John's!)
4 comments:
And whose big brown eyes are ou talking about?
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Oh your daughter found the joys of vinyl. In the 60's my daughters played "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra over and over and over. Then there was Wayne Newton and Hey Jude. Makes me wanna cry. I still have a lot of records even 45's and nothing to play them on. I had the first two Sun records that Elvis Presley made. Wish I still had those two. Thanks for sending me down memory lane, Paula
I want a record player and an 8 track!!!! I have several hundred great singles from the 70's and some righteous 8 tracks from the 80's and no where to play them. :o( - Barbara
Ach, vinyl wasn't all that bad. At least you'd know when the needle would start to crackle and jump LOL
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