That's Millie. I'm not sure what she was doing, maybe drying dishes. The cupboard over her head is very old. Sue has it now. Mom moved it with her when we moved to Argyle. I think it was in the school house when we moved in. It has ceramic knobs on it.
Millie stayed with us when Allan was in the army. She paid mom a little rent but she did a lot around the house including watching Nancy while Mom worked.
I think this one below may have been sent to Allan while he was in Germany to let him know how sad she was without him.
She was always the skinny one.
I do not remember that chair but the window I do.
Mom called it her "Picture" window because we had never lived in a house that had a window that big before.
One day after I'd been working for awhile I took some of the girls to Glens Falls in the car. I got my license sometime after I was working in the drug store and Dad was working as a night watchmen/janitor at Ames Chemical. Enid was working for Mr Walt by then as a hair stylist. She didn't like him because she said he was always laughing in the back room of the the shop with his boy friends. She really hated working there. She hated the boss and she hated her customers.
The two of us had no way to get home after work because Dad worked night shift. Enid took a taxi down from her work place. I think it was in the plaza where Zayres was. I would walk down from my job in the plaza where the drug store was. It was about ten blocks and most of the time I didn't care.
We'd meet up at Ames. Mom would have sent along a box with our dinners in it and we would eat and if it got too dark for me to read, we'd both fall asleep in the car till Dad came out when his relief showed up and he could drive us home. I think Enid hated that too. So I signed up for a driving course and learned to drive and I became the one who drove her to work and me to work. We must have had two cars by then or I could have the timing on this all mixed up. It was about forty years ago.
On this particular day I started my story with we had been shopping. We were coming back on a road I think was called the county line road. Sue will correct me if I'm wrong. I suddenly saw in my mind a picture of our house and it looked like it was in flames. I could see orange and red and yellow flame like images in the front window. I told Sue and then I floored it just in case. I never drove that fast there before and I was careful when I got to intersections even if they were country ones.
Just at the moment we rounded the bend and saw our house the sun was setting. I could easily see with relief the "flames" in the window. It was the reflection of the setting sun. I cannot explain how miles away I'd seen that image before it could have happened and see it the way I wouldn't have seen it if I'd driven home at a normal pace. This is the truth and it did happen.
The dog patch look almost.
Notice the pink princess phone on top of the TV? When it rang, Duke would go over and pick it up in his mouth. We were still on a party line then. I hated that sometimes but I confess sometimes I picked it up and listened.
You had to listen before you dialed to be sure someone wasn't using it. Once I dialed with out listening and somebody was using it. She got snippy but I hung up quick, hoping she wouldn't know who it was because I'd not said a word.
But at least once I listened because I was nosy but I never heard anything worth listening to on it.
Millie did a lot of painting the house for mom or painting furniture. It was something most of us did at one time or another but Millie did it the most. The cat is "helping" her. I think Millie did the walls because she wasn't afraid of the heights of being up there and she weighed less than most of us so it was nothing for her to sit on top of the fridge to do it. I'm not even sure that is a fridge. I think we had metal cabinets Dad got somewhere to store groceries inside.