Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

[lookeyloo]

Happy - we are bringing a truckload full of overflow so we can stage current house. New house in Mableton. Cobb County. Close enough to what I am familiar with since son lives closer in and I am a regular visitor.

[Happyfatchick]

Six Flags!

[lookeyloo]

Saving that for the grands who live in pacific nw. What's the scoop on lithium water from Lithia Springs? A psychiatrist was citing studies which I googled that people are calmer when they drink that water - lower suicide rates too

[NikSac]

Sophie's Choice would probably wreck me. Excellent recommendation, thank you. I was thinking Harold and Maude because I always start sobbing as soon as Maude tells Harold she took the tablets an hour ago and the song Trouble starts. (I love that soundtrack so much.) So now I have two movies to destroy myself with tonight.

 

Aw Mindy my heart goes out to you. I spent roughly a year dealing with my dog's cancer, treatments, vet visits, etc. and it was just heartbreaking. I can't have kids either so she was my first "baby."  I got to know the "regulars" at the vet's office and it seemed like about once a month you'd see someone you knew walking out with a blanket and a collar.  But, after talking to people I realized many of them had gotten lots more years with their pets just from getting good vet care.  Figaro might still be with you for a good long time.  Also, he will 'tell' you when it's time - I firmly believe that. It's not time yet, and may not be time for years.  Growing up I had a cat live into her mid-20s even with a number of health issues.

 

The pill thing can be tough. Hopefully they can mostly switch to liquids. If he doesn't like pill pockets the baby food's a great idea (after checking for no onions or garlic).  I have found that applesauce sometimes works surprisingly well, too. I don't know if it masks the taste better or it's just harder to eat around the pill, but that worked for me when nothing else would a few times.

 

If you still need a good cry, "What Dreams May Come" never fails for me.

 

I'll be thinking healing thoughts for both you and Fig.

[NikSac]

Edited to add an aerial view of Jasper in his collar:

 

 

 

Sorry for sharing too much info, but I know that some of you understand. 

 

he... yes, that we do!  I had one of those for my girl, too.  The vet techs lovingly called it her "floatie."

[NikSac]

My apologies - I just realized I was way further behind than I realized so some of my replies are a little outdated, and I missed a whole bunch of virtual hugs, healing thoughts, congratulations, and a birthday.  My thoughts are with everyone, both those who are celebrating and those who are struggling right now.  ((((HUGS))))

[Jellybeans]

I checked in to check on wanderwoman... I worry about her. I have so many things to worry about already but she is also on my list. I hope Maisie's cochlear implant activation went smoothly... and wasn't a terror for Maisie. Sometimes it takes time for babies to get with it.

So many changes for wanderwoman. Wish I could help her.

[Happyfatchick]

^^^^^ ME TOO!!!!!

[amitville]

I checked in to check on wanderwoman... I worry about her. I have so many things to worry about already but she is also on my list. I hope Maisie's cochlear implant activation went smoothly... and wasn't a terror for Maisie. Sometimes it takes time for babies to get with it.

So many changes for wanderwoman. Wish I could help her.

I have been worried about Wanderwomen  also,  if only i could wave my magic wand and make everything alright

Edited July 31, 2015 by amitville

[GEML]

She, and a number of people here have been handed a rough set of circumstances recently. The trouble with being an anonymous board with people literally from all over the world is the inability to do more than simply be here for them.

[ChocolateAddict]

I was thinking the other day about how weird it would be if we all actually met up.  We would probably have nothing in common- everyone is spanned across 3 continents and we are all such different ages.  I'm more at the age of Joseph/Josiah/Jinger whereas I know that others on here are a fair bit older :) 

There is a funny little community on here that could never meet up in real life but can celebrate, console and support others without ever knowing the other person's name.  The internet is amazing.  

[Seashell Lover]

I think my boys can not wait to start school. It is about 7PM Friday and they have already picked out their first day of school clothing and asking if it is bath time yet.

[BitterApple]

I think my boys can not wait to start school. It is about 7PM Friday and they have already picked out their first day of school clothing and asking if it is bath time yet.

That's so cute. My favorite part of going back to school was going shopping for new supplies. Give me a new packet of pencils and a new notebook and I'm a happy girl. I was a huge Lisa Frank groupie during my school years.

[Barb23]

I'm with you about new school supplies - there's nothing better. Maybe it has something to do with a fresh start. I'm doubting the Duggar kids ever got to pick out new school supplies or we would have seen it. Even picking out a folder or spiral notebook with a picture they like on it would have been something in that family. I'm guessing it wasn't allowed - God forbid they have a place to write down their thoughts or better yet, their dreams.

[Happyfatchick]

(You're exempt from this quiz, chocolateaddict, but I wager a great many will know these things.

The smell of chalk

First grade paste (not Elmers Glue)

The smell of mimeograph

Brown lunch sacks and a thermos

Teachers who whacked kids in the open palm with a ruler

Wearing galoshes to school (and snow suits!!!), parking the boots and hanging the wet snow suit on a peg in the front hall of the building

Going to sleep with bobby-pinned curls plastered to the head

May-Day poles

Dick and Jane

Big fat pencils and crayons (I never COULD use those!!)

Smoking allowed in the teacher's lounge

Female teachers wore dresses and the men wore ties

Referring to my second grade teacher as "Miss Kathy" on Sundays, "Miss Miller" on Mondays

Math homework from a real book, where the odd answers were listed in the back but the assignment was always even

Being sick enough to call your mother meant you'd better be bleeding profusely or puking

No such thing as ADD/ADHD

Book satchels

Metal lunch boxes

Knee socks

Saddle oxfords and Mary Janes

Bonanza on Sunday nights

"This is the house that Jack built"

Lastly, having a gigantic crush on Davy Jones. I'm positive he died a broken, lonely man because it just never worked out for us.

And of course, one of you geniuses will have to point out that you still use brown bags and a thermos. But YOU know what I mean.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Happyfatchick

[GeeGolly]

Yes, the smell of dittos! No paper sacks of lunchboxes for me - we went home for lunch. Rain, snow or shine, we walked to school in the AM, walked home for lunch, walked back to school for the afternoon, and then walked home again at the end of the day. No corporal punishment, but we did have Dick & Jane and Maypole Days, and Arbor Days too. No Saddle shoes, but yes to Mary Janes and Loafers. Yes too the Monkees and the Partridge Family as well. #2 pencils and rough drafts on yellow lined paper, and then using pen for the final draft on white lined paper. Learning the Metric system because "we will be converting within 10 years". 

 

And again, the smell of dittos!

[lookeyloo]

I remember mostly everything. I think I am the old lady of the bunch of us.

[Julia]

I was already taller than David Cassidy by the time I was 11. At the time, I didn't think see why that should stand in the way of our true love. My black and white poster of his face (ordered from the back of Teen Beat) was taller than both of us.

 

Am I nuts, or did dittos smell an awful lot like dry erase markers?

Edited August 1, 2015 by Julia

[Happyfatchick]

I never lived where children went home for lunch. I ALWAYS thought that was the coolest thing ever, though. Remembered a couple more: reel to reel films (when the janitor had to bring in the stand up/roll down screen, and the librarian would roll in the projector on a wheeled cart). By middle school, overhead projectors and grease pencils had become the rage. Massive monkey bars. Those round things you pushed (4 of you) and jumped on after it was spinning hard. Teacher conferences weren't scheduled in for everyone at the end of every six weeks: if your teacher requested a conference with your parents, you were DEEEEEEEEAD.

[kokapetl]

How does school children going home for lunch work? Doesn't traveling to and from the school eat up a lot of time? Does the school have lunch breaks 1 1/2 hours long?

[Happyfatchick]

They walked, Koka. Lived close enough to school to walk there. The others brown-bagged.

[Barb23]

Oh what great memories you all have brought back. Does anyone else remember the history related movie series "You are there" narrated by Walter Cronkite? They would put you back in time for a certain event like the Revolutionary War. I wasn't into history much but enjoyed the movies. My husband found some in DVD form on line & surprised me at Christmas. One other thing I remember but don't know if it was just done in our area (near Baltimore). A reading program called SRA. You individually read little stories on cards & answered questions. You worked your way up thru different colors. We had SRA day once a week & loved it.

[amitville]

(You're exempt from this quiz, chocolateaddict, but I wager a great many will know these things.

The smell of chalk

First grade paste (not Elmers Glue)

The smell of mimeograph

Brown lunch sacks and a thermos

Teachers who whacked kids in the open palm with a ruler

Wearing galoshes to school (and snow suits!!!), parking the boots and hanging the wet snow suit on a peg in the front hall of the building

Going to sleep with bobby-pinned curls plastered to the head

May-Day poles

Dick and Jane

Big fat pencils and crayons (I never COULD use those!!)

Smoking allowed in the teacher's lounge

Female teachers wore dresses and the men wore ties

Referring to my second grade teacher as "Miss Kathy" on Sundays, "Miss Miller" on Mondays

Math homework from a real book, where the odd answers were listed in the back but the assignment was always even

Being sick enough to call your mother meant you'd better be bleeding profusely or puking

No such thing as ADD/ADHD

Book satchels

Metal lunch boxes

Knee socks

Saddle oxfords and Mary Janes

Bonanza on Sunday nights

"This is the house that Jack built"

Lastly, having a gigantic crush on Davy Jones. I'm positive he died a broken, lonely man because it just never worked out for us.

And of course, one of you geniuses will have to point out that you still use brown bags and a thermos. But YOU know what I mean.

I had a gigantic crush on Linc from mod squad thinking i sounded cool saying Solid sadly  my crush on linc was replaced by Bobbi Sherman .

[Happyfatchick]

Barb, my elementary years were spent on Edgewood Arsonal at the back end of the Chesapeake Bay (near Aberdeen, maybe? I remember that town name). And I LOOOOOOVEE that reading program - seems like ours was on a little slide type thing. The speed was set to see how fast you could read, comprehend and answer questions. Is that how yours worked?

[Barb23]

Happy - that does sound familiar about the slide type thing & think the idea of the program was to see how fast you could read it & comprehend it. I think we got to chart our progress with colored pencils matching the color of the level you were on. I was always in the top reading group in my class - the Lipincott readers as my husband remembers it. (Lipincott was the publisher I think). I'll have to run all this by my mother-in-law who taught elementary education for years & then ended up being a Reading specialist later on. I think the SRA idea was "way out there" in its day, along with open space schools. I'm 53, so we are talking late 60's & early 70's for my elementary years. Oh my!

[GeeGolly]

And the dreaded slide projection sexual education.

 

Kokapetl, my town was a small town with 4 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 1 high school. Once we reached middle school we could brown-bag it or eat in the cafeteria. My friend Cheryl lived the farthest from my K - grade 5 school. She lived more than a mile away. We were given an hour for lunch, obviously she had less time to eat than others.

[latetotheparty]

I remember mostly everything. I think I am the old lady of the bunch of us.

 

Right there with you.  Memory still sharp, thank god.

[Happyfatchick]

Barb, I believe your husband nailed it. Lipincott sounds exactly right. And I was always a clicking fool too! Always read at the top of my class. (And always had my lettering held up as a shining example!). . Considering myself lucky they didn't do multiplication problems on a speed basis!!!

ETA: I'm 55 for 2 more weeks. Every year, around April, I start saying I'm the next number up (to mentally say aging doesn't bother me). Not so this year. I've been ok with clocking years until this one. For some reason, 56 is just harder to say. Still...they say getting older is way better than the alternative.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Happyfatchick

[latetotheparty]

Barb, I believe your husband nailed it. Lipincott sounds exactly right. And I was always a clicking fool too! Always read at the top of my class. (And always had my lettering held up as a shining example!). . Considering myself lucky they didn't do multiplication problems on a speed basis!!!

ETA: I'm 55 for 2 more weeks. Every year, around April, I start saying I'm the next number up (to mentally say aging doesn't bother me). Not so this year. I've been ok with clocking years until this one. For some reason, 56 is just harder to say. Still...they say getting older is way better than the alternative.

 

Reading in school was always fraught for me.  I read very well pretty much as soon as I learned, could read rings around anyone in my class, but I got so tongue-tied reading aloud in class.  School is hell on introverts.  :(

 

Now I audio-record stories for fun.  Makes me wanna go back and show all those teachers.  See?  See?  I really can do this.

[Seashell Lover]

That's so cute. My favorite part of going back to school was going shopping for new supplies. Give me a new packet of pencils and a new notebook and I'm a happy girl. I was a huge Lisa Frank groupie during my school years.

  

(You're exempt from this quiz, chocolateaddict, but I wager a great many will know these things.

The smell of chalk

First grade paste (not Elmers Glue)

The smell of mimeograph

Brown lunch sacks and a thermos

Teachers who whacked kids in the open palm with a ruler

Wearing galoshes to school (and snow suits!!!), parking the boots and hanging the wet snow suit on a peg in the front hall of the building

Going to sleep with bobby-pinned curls plastered to the head

May-Day poles

Dick and Jane

Big fat pencils and crayons (I never COULD use those!!)

Smoking allowed in the teacher's lounge

Female teachers wore dresses and the men wore ties

Referring to my second grade teacher as "Miss Kathy" on Sundays, "Miss Miller" on Mondays

Math homework from a real book, where the odd answers were listed in the back but the assignment was always even

Being sick enough to call your mother meant you'd better be bleeding profusely or puking

No such thing as ADD/ADHD

Book satchels

Metal lunch boxes

Knee socks

Saddle oxfords and Mary Janes

Bonanza on Sunday nights

"This is the house that Jack built"

Lastly, having a gigantic crush on Davy Jones. I'm positive he died a broken, lonely man because it just never worked out for us.

And of course, one of you geniuses will have to point out that you still use brown bags and a thermos. But YOU know what I mean.

I still love Lisa Frank and I remember most things on the list.

[Jellybeans]

Since I was deaf, I hated to see the Projector come in with a film we were to be tested on. And the sex ed tape, imagine watching it with the sound off! That was what it was like for me.

I read the newspaper as a little kid. There was an article about someone being arrested for sodomy. I asked mom what it meant. She was all flustered, and wouldn't tell me. Went to my trusty red Websters, it said "the act of sodomizing". I was so frustrated! Took the article and dictionary to school and asked my teacher. Got sent to the principal's office. Mom was called in. I had no idea it had anything to do with sex, heck I did not even know what sex was or meant.

Still did not learn what sodomy meant for many years.

Now where is wanderwoman?

Edited August 1, 2015 by Jellybeans

[Wellfleet]

Oh what great memories you all have brought back. Does anyone else remember the history related movie series "You are there" narrated by Walter Cronkite? They would put you back in time for a certain event like the Revolutionary War. I wasn't into history much but enjoyed the movies. My husband found some in DVD form on line & surprised me at Christmas. One other thing I remember but don't know if it was just done in our area (near Baltimore). A reading program called SRA. You individually read little stories on cards & answered questions. You worked your way up thru different colors. We had SRA day once a week & loved it.

 

Oh, psych! I had completely forgotten about SRA. We didn't get it at my school until I was in 5th or 6th grade [1966-68] but I do remember going through the whole set of colors for my level quite quickly. The reading teacher had to figure out something else for me and the others that had finished at that point. We were all girls, and I think we ended up reading Gone With the Wind. I loved it but have to admit, I didn't understand ALL of it at that time. Great memories though.

[GeeGolly]

Since I was deaf, I hated to see the Projector come in with a film we were to be tested on. And the sex ed tape, imagine watching it with the sound off! That was what it was like for me.

I read the newspaper as a little kid. There was an article about someone being arrested for sodomy. I asked mom what it meant. She was all flustered, and wouldn't tell me. Went to my trusty red Websters, it said "the act of sodomizing". I was so frustrated! Took the article and dictionary to school and asked my teacher. Got sent to the principal's office. Mom was called in. I had no idea it had anything to do with sex, heck I did not even know what sex was or meant.

Still did not learn what sodomy meant for many years.

Now where is wanderwoman?

Somehow when I was 10 or so I heard the word virgin. I asked my mom what it meant and she told me  "An untouched forest".

 

My friend and I asked our 6th grade teacher what a boner was. She laughed and walked away. We both had older siblings and were horrified when we found out what it meant.

[Jellybeans]

I didn't hear the word boner until my KIDS told me!

[CalicoKitty]

"You Were There" and the Standard School Broadcasts.  We would listen to these radio programs during class as part of our usual schedule.  And dittos.  The worst was having to MAKE the dittos.  You had to know what you were doing to run the thing.  Make sure the ink tank was full, and fill it if needed.  Turn the tank upside down and make sure the felt was covered with ink.  Then crank, and count the cranks.  Then you had purple fingers all day (the ink was clear, but turned purple on the paper or your skin).  The film strip projector was my favorite.  Sometimes the teacher would let a student turn to the next picture, but you had to do it right when the "ding" sounded on the cassett tape, which provided the sound.  I retired from teaching 3 years ago (I did my 38 years--time to go).  I was still using filmstrips for my music classes.  The students loved them because the pictures didn't move, and I could make the pictures big enough for the whole room to see.  I could stop and discuss the material at any time, unlike a video.  I still have a film strip projector, but you can't buy filmstrips anymore.  In college, I actually had to take--and pass-- a class on "technology".  That included showing I could run the ditto machine, the copy machine, film strip projector, and the reel-to-reel movie projector.  Both kinds of reel-to-reel.  The one that threaded automatically, and the one that you had to thread by hand.  We also had to demonstrate how to change the bulbs and do basic repairs on everything (except the copy machine).  Those were the days!

[Wellfleet]

(You're exempt from this quiz, chocolateaddict, but I wager a great many will know these things.

The smell of chalk

First grade paste (not Elmers Glue)

The smell of mimeograph

Brown lunch sacks and a thermos

Teachers who whacked kids in the open palm with a ruler

Wearing galoshes to school (and snow suits!!!), parking the boots and hanging the wet snow suit on a peg in the front hall of the building

Going to sleep with bobby-pinned curls plastered to the head

May-Day poles

Dick and Jane

Big fat pencils and crayons (I never COULD use those!!)

Smoking allowed in the teacher's lounge

Female teachers wore dresses and the men wore ties

Referring to my second grade teacher as "Miss Kathy" on Sundays, "Miss Miller" on Mondays

Math homework from a real book, where the odd answers were listed in the back but the assignment was always even

Being sick enough to call your mother meant you'd better be bleeding profusely or puking

No such thing as ADD/ADHD

Book satchels

Metal lunch boxes

Knee socks

Saddle oxfords and Mary Janes

Bonanza on Sunday nights

"This is the house that Jack built"

Lastly, having a gigantic crush on Davy Jones. I'm positive he died a broken, lonely man because it just never worked out for us.

And of course, one of you geniuses will have to point out that you still use brown bags and a thermos. But YOU know what I mean.

 

Love this list! But for my family it was Lassie, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights. And I went to Catholic schools so there were virtually no men anywhere. Just lay teachers who were mostly unmarried females - and nuns. Honest to goodness, habit-wearing nuns!

[GeeGolly]

School House Rock! Conjunction junction what's your function ...

 

 

And After School Specials.

Edited August 1, 2015 by GeeGolly

[Julia]

School House Rock! Conjunction junction what's your function ...

 

Everyone in freshman history knew the preamble. Our teacher, who was sure nobody did, just stared.

[GeeGolly]

Who remembers Captain Kangaroo?

[Wellfleet]

Oh what great memories you all have brought back. Does anyone else remember the history related movie series "You are there" narrated by Walter Cronkite? They would put you back in time for a certain event like the Revolutionary War. I wasn't into history much but enjoyed the movies. My husband found some in DVD form on line & surprised me at Christmas. One other thing I remember but don't know if it was just done in our area (near Baltimore). A reading program called SRA. You individually read little stories on cards & answered questions. You worked your way up thru different colors. We had SRA day once a week & loved it.

 

You can see a LOT of old TV shows, commercials etc on YouTube, even things from 1940s television. Even old game shows which, BTW, are a hoot.  I haven't checked but I'd be surprised if "You Are There" - was not there.

[Wellfleet]

Who remembers Captain Kangaroo?

 

OMG, the Captain was my guy! I loved - loved - loved his show! Even as a college student, I would still tune in on Thanksgiving morning to see the Captain and Mr Green Jeans setting the table and getting things ready for their dinner. Right before all the big Thanksgiving parades were shown on CBS. And some of the most beloved books in my collection I learned about from the Captain - Make Way for Ducklings, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Caps for Sale. Oh, major flashback! LOL.

[GeeGolly]

Since I was deaf...

Now where is wanderwoman?

Jellybeans, I grew up living next door to a school for the deaf, it is a day school. I won't say the name. My mom worked at the school so I ate there during lunch time and spent a lot of time there during the summer. When this school opened signing was actually discouraged. Most kids had double hearing aids with the transmitter worn harnessed on there chest. The classrooms were wired for sound and all teachers spoke with a microphone. The school is still there but it has evolved by leaps & bounds.

 

Did you attend a school for the deaf?

[latetotheparty]

Who remembers Captain Kangaroo?

 

Better yet, who remembers Miss Frances and Ding Dong School?  And Romper Room.

[Seashell Lover]

Oh what great memories you all have brought back. Does anyone else remember the history related movie series "You are there" narrated by Walter Cronkite? They would put you back in time for a certain event like the Revolutionary War. I wasn't into history much but enjoyed the movies. My husband found some in DVD form on line & surprised me at Christmas. One other thing I remember but don't know if it was just done in our area (near Baltimore). A reading program called SRA. You individually read little stories on cards & answered questions. You worked your way up thru different colors. We had SRA day once a week & loved it.

I went through all the SRA Colors in 1 month then again I was reading adult books when I was 6.

School House Rock! Conjunction junction what's your function ...

 

 

And After School Specials.

Thank you now I have Conjunction Junction What's your function stuck in my brain.

Better yet, who remembers Miss Frances and Ding Dong School?  And Romper Room.

I was on Romper Room.

Who remembers Captain Kangaroo?

I do I do now I am going to bed and cry because I feel so old now :).

[latetotheparty]

I went through all the SRA Colors in 1 month then again I was reading adult books when I was 6.

Thank you now I have Conjunction Junction What's your function stuck in my brain.

I was on Romper Room.

I do I do now I am going to bed and cry because I feel so old now :).

 

I am SO JEALOUS!   My first name did not become popular for girls until the 80's and I was always so disappointed she never saw me in the Magic Mirror.

[Wellfleet]

Better yet, who remembers Miss Frances and Ding Dong School?  And Romper Room.

 

I don't actually remember watching "Ding Dong School" but my mother says I was absolutely enthralled by it.

[Barb23]

I went through all the SRA Colors in 1 month then again I was reading adult books when I was 6.

Thank you now I have Conjunction Junction What's your function stuck in my brain.

I was on Romper Room.

I do I do now I am going to bed and cry because I feel so old now :).

Boy how lucky to be on Romper Room. I loved that show. I remember being glued to the TV set hoping Miss Sally or Nancy would "see" me & call my name out when she looked thru her magic mirror thing but she never did. Not sure if I remember the teacher's names correctly- I think the daughter took over when her mom, the original teacher, retired.

Happyfatchick- since you (or anyone else) grew up in the Baltimore area, do you remember the local program Captain Chesapeake? It was on after school. The set had the Captain looking like he was sitting on the back of a boat. He had a sea monster friend who stayed in the cardboard water. One time Capt Chesapeake accidentally knocked off the sea monster's head. I can't remember what happened but I'm sure they quickly cut to a commercial. Wonder how many little kids were traumatized when they found out the sea monster (can't remember his name) wasn't real & was portrayed by a man in a costume.

[lookeyloo]

Better yet, who remembers Miss Frances and Ding Dong School?  And Romper Room.

Better yet, who remembers Miss Frances and Ding Dong School?  And Romper Room.

I remember my baby brother watching Ding Dong School and shouting "NO!!" At her. She got on his last baby nerve.

Who remembers the Howdy Doody Show? I'm 71 .5

[latetotheparty]

I remember my baby brother watching Ding Dong School and shouting "NO!!" At her. She got on his last baby nerve.

Who remembers the Howdy Doody Show? I'm 71 .5

 

Me!  (I turn 64 on Thursday)  My mom wrote the show a nasty letter because they had an episode where Santa gets kidnapped and it upset me terribly.

 

Any older Detroiters here?  Do you remember Milky's Party Time and the Jingles show?

[Jellybeans]

Jellybeans, I grew up living next door to a school for the deaf, it is a day school. I won't say the name. My mom worked at the school so I ate there during lunch time and spent a lot of time there during the summer. When this school opened signing was actually discouraged. Most kids had double hearing aids with the transmitter worn harnessed on there chest. The classrooms were wired for sound and all teachers spoke with a microphone. The school is still there but it has evolved by leaps & bounds.

 

Did you attend a school for the deaf?

Yes I did, and I lived there. Two of them. We signed! I rarely sign now.