Signs of Spring at the Bates Home!!

"It's cherry pink and apple blossom white"

None of you know this song but it was our "Junior Prom" theme song.

This was the only time I ever got involved in any after school activity.

I helped make fake pink blossoms and we glued  them onto dormate  quaking aspen

trees that they cut down.  They looked quite athentic.

I also wrote to a group that was popular in our area

and hired them to come and play for our dance.

I didn't have a date for the dance but went anyway which a lot did.

They asked the Junior class boys to all get out and dance

the 1st dance with the Junior girls.

That went over good.  There was no way your Dad would do it

and a lot of the other boys, so The Senior boys stepped up to the bat

and danced with some of us girls.

The Senior Class president asked me to dance.  He was a very nice person

and I had never danced with him before, but I had a nice time for that

dance anyway.  Later, you Dad did dance with me.

Look at our cherry tree by the fence.  Each year it gets prettier.

It is a volunteer tree.  A stone dropped by a bird.

The lilacs are ready to pop out.  I think they will be done blooming

by Memorial Day.  Last year they were too late.

You never know what the year will bring.