Daily Archives: May 20, 2017

Old Writing: Part 14::Inflatable Additions (to houses)

Writing, ,

Written on March 25, 1969. We must have been studying writing advertisements. This one is kind of funny.

Inflatable Additions (to houses)

You will never be sorry when you buy our new inflatable additions. You need no city builder’s permit and you will have no messy back or front yard. All you do is run down to your favorite department store and start blowing!

I knew about building permits because my dad had run into some trouble because he’d either failed to obtain one or else whatever he was doing on the house was not up to code.

Old Writing: Part 13::A Poem

Writing,

This has no date but is written on a mimeographed worksheet which discusses the poem, Against Idleness and Mischief by Isaac Watts.

Apparently, we were to create a poem like it making substitutions for some of the words (bolded) in the original poem.

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

How skilfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads the wax!
And labors hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes.

I only wrote one stanza and did not quite follow the directions…

How doth the little termite
Improve his appetite,
By eating wood and nothing else
Oh, that fussy termite!

 

Old Writing: Part 12::What I’ll be Someday

Memories, Writing,

This was written on October 4, 1966. Three years later I will write another paper about my future.

What I’ll be Someday

I want to be a nurse and I want to be a teacher too because I like school. If I were to babysit for my brother I might like it and on the other hand, I might not like it.

I can name a few of the things I want to be, like a nurse, teacher, nursery teacher, Sunday school teacher or an animal hospital nurse because I love animals.

I hope I get married and have a dog, cat and a few hamsters.

The teacher writes “what about children??” after the last sentence.