i don't wanna grow up... hitchin a ride to The Valley...
I lived like 10 or 15 minutes from the town where this took place. Horrible, yes?
Thank you steven. As I was reading the madera newspaper, he sent me this. *LOL*
I marched in this parade in seventh grade. Like most of the rest of my life, i don't remember the details really, but damn i know it was fun marching alongside matt... with the rest of our band... we were a middle school that got placed in the junior high group... our leader guy (wtf are they called?) got first place, the actual band got second, the twirlers got 3rd, and the letter girls got 2nd... well, i may have the twirlers and the letter girls confused... and the flag girls are in there somewhere.... anyway, it was a good times...
There is no fair like the Chowchilla Madera County Fair. Maybe just cos i went to it every year for the first.. uhh... 12 or 13 years of my life... i can still remember how the sun felt, how the carmel apples tasted... being in the little... i dunno... area that they set aside for people to relax and drink their beer. The only remotely negative memory i have of the fair is a nightmare i had one year, a month or 2 before the fair... i was on a ride that just swung you around and around with my cousin katie (they actually live in vancouver, wa). So yah, somehow things were set up so that the ferris wheel hit me in the head... i knew it hit me but it didn't really hurt so i wasn't too worried, but when i got off my uncle dave ran over to me and was like your head is bleeding... still, it wasn't that bad... i still looked very closely at the area around the ferris wheel that year... then of course there was the artic circle.. that was a damned fine ride... and bumper boats... damned nice in the 105 degree heat *LOL*
which brings me to the town pool... we had a community swimming pool and then the high school had a pool... my brother and i would go to the community one everyday... was damned fun... i'm saying damned a lot *laughs*
alright, enough memories... one more thing and then i need to shower...
my great-grandma... mom's dad's mom
Beulah Mae Harbour
Beulah passed away on Monday, September 30, 2002 at Madera Rehabilitation and Convalescent Hospital at the age of 87. Born in Star, Oklahoma, she was a long time resident of Madera County in Chowchilla, CA until recently when she moved to Madera. Beulah was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal Church of God in Chowchilla. She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Andrew Harbour in 1979, by a son Drue Edward Harbour in 1997 [my papa], and by four brothers and five sisters.
Beulah is survived by her daughters, Pauline Berry of Madera, Dorothy Johnson of Nashville TN, and Linda Rosich of Redwood City, CA. She is the sister of Earl Wayne Oldham, Barbara Sherman and Pauline Tracy all of Stigler, OK, and the beloved grandmother of 18 and great grandmother of 51, and great great grandmother of 8.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, October 2, 2002 from 1:00 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Jay Chapel in Madera. Graveside service will be held on Thursday, October 3, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. at the Chowchilla District Cemetery.
Remembrances may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Department 300, Memphis, TN 38148-0552.
a special thank you to my FUCKING mother for not calling me in about a year. i was surfing thru madera online and found this obits link, so i searched for harbour, that being the family name... thinking nothing would come of it... i'm not as upset about her dying as i am about my FUCKING mother never calling... i have so many fond memories of great-gramma tho... she was a tough old broad *LOL* but, yah, no more memories for this post...
cyall latah!!!!!
*mwah*
~Airie
Thank you steven. As I was reading the madera newspaper, he sent me this. *LOL*
I marched in this parade in seventh grade. Like most of the rest of my life, i don't remember the details really, but damn i know it was fun marching alongside matt... with the rest of our band... we were a middle school that got placed in the junior high group... our leader guy (wtf are they called?) got first place, the actual band got second, the twirlers got 3rd, and the letter girls got 2nd... well, i may have the twirlers and the letter girls confused... and the flag girls are in there somewhere.... anyway, it was a good times...
There is no fair like the Chowchilla Madera County Fair. Maybe just cos i went to it every year for the first.. uhh... 12 or 13 years of my life... i can still remember how the sun felt, how the carmel apples tasted... being in the little... i dunno... area that they set aside for people to relax and drink their beer. The only remotely negative memory i have of the fair is a nightmare i had one year, a month or 2 before the fair... i was on a ride that just swung you around and around with my cousin katie (they actually live in vancouver, wa). So yah, somehow things were set up so that the ferris wheel hit me in the head... i knew it hit me but it didn't really hurt so i wasn't too worried, but when i got off my uncle dave ran over to me and was like your head is bleeding... still, it wasn't that bad... i still looked very closely at the area around the ferris wheel that year... then of course there was the artic circle.. that was a damned fine ride... and bumper boats... damned nice in the 105 degree heat *LOL*
which brings me to the town pool... we had a community swimming pool and then the high school had a pool... my brother and i would go to the community one everyday... was damned fun... i'm saying damned a lot *laughs*
alright, enough memories... one more thing and then i need to shower...
my great-grandma... mom's dad's mom
Beulah Mae Harbour
Beulah passed away on Monday, September 30, 2002 at Madera Rehabilitation and Convalescent Hospital at the age of 87. Born in Star, Oklahoma, she was a long time resident of Madera County in Chowchilla, CA until recently when she moved to Madera. Beulah was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal Church of God in Chowchilla. She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Andrew Harbour in 1979, by a son Drue Edward Harbour in 1997 [my papa], and by four brothers and five sisters.
Beulah is survived by her daughters, Pauline Berry of Madera, Dorothy Johnson of Nashville TN, and Linda Rosich of Redwood City, CA. She is the sister of Earl Wayne Oldham, Barbara Sherman and Pauline Tracy all of Stigler, OK, and the beloved grandmother of 18 and great grandmother of 51, and great great grandmother of 8.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, October 2, 2002 from 1:00 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Jay Chapel in Madera. Graveside service will be held on Thursday, October 3, 2002 at 10:00 a.m. at the Chowchilla District Cemetery.
Remembrances may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Department 300, Memphis, TN 38148-0552.
a special thank you to my FUCKING mother for not calling me in about a year. i was surfing thru madera online and found this obits link, so i searched for harbour, that being the family name... thinking nothing would come of it... i'm not as upset about her dying as i am about my FUCKING mother never calling... i have so many fond memories of great-gramma tho... she was a tough old broad *LOL* but, yah, no more memories for this post...
cyall latah!!!!!
*mwah*
~Airie