Subj : Losing Out
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 20:30:16

Hi Dave,

 DD> I remember the first phone of which I was aware. The one phone in
 DD> the house hung on the wall, did not have even a rotary dial, and
 DD> did have a crank on the side which spun a magneto. I was too short

 RH> Those are antiques for me.

 DD> For me, as well. My relatives in Southern Illinois kept their old hand
 DD> cranked phones when the phone company went to smaller desk phones and
 DD> operators. Since they all lived on more-or-less adjoining farms Uncles
 DD> Tom and Rob ran the wire connecting up the network for a family phone
 DD> company.

Hey, it worked. (G)

 DD> we got all modern and had a "desk" phone - still sans dial. When

 RH> We had one of those too. My folks got an extention phone in their
 RH> bedroom when the town went dial.

 DD> you picked up the hand set and put it to your ear after a few
 DD> seconds you'd hear a nasal query of "Number please". Phones in
 DD> those days (after the wooden wall phones) were like Ford motorcars
 DD> used to be. Any colour you'd like as long as it was black.   Bv)=

 RH> Exactly right! And my parent's main dial phone (and first extention)
 RH> were black for many decades.

 DD>       Title: Cell Phone Cake
 DD>  Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Candies
 DD>       Yield: 15 Servings

 RH> One of our Vacation Bible School curriculums is on Wisdom. The first
 RH> unit deals with wisdom calling so the last time we did it, for crafts
 RH> the kids made "cell phones". Steve cut out/base painted wooden cell
 RH> phone shapes. Kids added a peel and stick keyboard and their memory
 RH> verse was put in the screen area.

 DD> Flippers or smarty-pants phone? We used to weave pot-holders at our
 DD> summer-time chucch day-camps. And braid lanyards and bracelets.

The old what used to be called "candy bar" phones--pre smart phones.
I try to tie the craft into the lesson, which today was on hiding God's
Word in your heart. The craft was 2 posterboard hearts, one with the
memory verse on, the other with the scripture about hiding His Word in
your heart. Kids peeled & stuck those onto the hearts, then decorated
them with markers. Holes were punched in the "humps" of the hearts; we
ran a string thru the holes and tied it off so the hearts could be hung
on a door knob or whatever.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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