Mary Louise Eklund

Category: Home life

  • Throwback Thursday – Easter Morning Waking to Candy Baskets

    Eklund Mike and Mark 1974 Easter Carthage NY

    This Mike and his brother Mark on Easter Morning 1974 in Carthage New York.

  • Wednesday Wildcard – Planner Love

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    One of my loves is office supplies.  I’m almost as happy looking through an office supply store as I am a book store.  Part of the manifests in my planner love.  However since I left regular office work I’ve been looking for the perfect planner for me. Finally, after a decade or so it dawned on me my needs change so I  need a planner that can adapt as I change. (more…)

  • Monday Memories – Being a Navy Wife

    Capt. Mike demo-ing a voice powered communication known as a growler.
    Capt. Mike demo-ing a voice powered communication known as a growler.

    I did it. I outlasted the Navy. My husband retired from service in May. For decades we served, yes we. As I said when I posted about family grams – Spouse is the hardest job in the Navy. So what can you do to help them out? First off remember now it’s not just wives, but husbands. Yes even the submarines are co-ed. Really we women can sink in can as well as a man. These brave service members leave behind their families for months at a time with very little communication. They return without the parades and parties ships or local National Guard get. So remember the Silent Service as well. I was asked what did I want as spouse back when Mike shipped out. I’ve thought about that for sometime. I find it hard to unpack all of that but I did come up with a few things. (more…)

  • Throwback Thursday – Short Skirts and TVs in Cabinets

    Bright, Mary Louise photo from brown photo album (8)

    That is me in about 1969. Yes the miniskirt was in full swing and I was hip to it. This was our home on Jennifer Street in Greeneville Tennessee. That TV there was black and white. It had two click dials one for VHF and one for UHF. We had cable that gave us five channels – ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and the riveting local data channel. This consisted of a wall with a clock, thermometer, day and date in a flip calendar, barometric pressure, and a board with weather conditions (cloud, sun, rain, snow flake stuck on a felt board) The exciting thing about it was there was a camera set up to pan over these in the line at a very slow. It was one for 24 hours seven days a week! You didn’t have to call time and temperature just turn to the channel and wait for the pan. The clock up there was made by my grandmother or my mom. I remember there was a bunch of bananas on it and one was black. I have the clock now, it doesn’t work but still reminds me of a time when cable was five channels and miniskirts were the best style going.

  • Wednesday Wildcard – Boogie On Down

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    I’ll be the first to admit that the older I get the more I dislike big crowds. I’ve never liked being packed like a sardine but now it’s more than that. So I avoid things that look to be too crowded. Also I don’t like loud. Yes I’m too old and it’s too loud. Don’t care, looking forward to those Senior Citizen discounts rolling in quietly.

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  • Monday Memories – He-Man Belongs In A Hole

     

    He Man figures at ComicCon Rob Blatt Flickr 12dec15
    He-Man figures at Comic-Con by Rob Blatt on flickr. Used under the Attribution NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license he so graciously granted with the image.

    He-Man belongs in a muddy hole.
    Why?
    I dunno.

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  • Throwback Thursday – Time Machine Snowman

    Happy Holidays!
    Happy Holidays!

    My family had a plastic snowman similar to this one when I was growing up. When I saw this one on a walk back in 2006 I had a rush of throwback memories of ours. This one has a candy cane ours had a broom. So here’s a throwback to 2006 that threw me back to 1968.

    Today is Christmas Eve at our house. We’re getting ready for a big meal tomorrow and opening presents. Then will be the trip south to visit family. I hope whatever holiday you celebrate you are having a great one.

  • Throwback Thursday – Mike early 70’s

    Christmas Mike early 70s

    We are traveling back to the early 70’s. To keep with the Throwback feel I didn’t process this picture to clear it up. Nope faded memories of Mike on Christmas. Oh I so remember so many boys with that haircut and that type of striped shirt. So what were you doing in the early 70’s? Hoping for a cool present?

  • Throwback Thursday – First Christmas

    Eklund, Aaron - 1st Christmas 1993

    Ahh those were the days when I could shop for him while he rode in the same cart. When paper to tear was an AWESOME gift. He looks to be concentrating so… Yes this was my son Aaron’s first Christmas.

  • Memoir Monday – Bad Hairstyle of the Past

    Bright, Mary Louise - Freshman WGHS 1979-80

    Yes, yes that’s me with an awful perm.  I saw a prompt on the internet to share a hairstyle regret.  I thought that would be a great Memoir Monday.  So while I have many hair regrets this one is my biggest.  No,  no  that wasn’t a bad hair day – it was always like that.  What was I thinking? (more…)