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ranchwife

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reading these posts sure takes ya back, huh??? (sigh.....)
I, too, spent the first 13 years of my life in a "big city"..Portland/Vancouver and moved to Ennis (population 400) when I began my 8th grade year....however, I adjusted immediately and cannot imagine living in any place bigger than Deer Lodge now!! Small town folks may talk about each other but they also stick together through thick and thin!!!

NR---how much longer do we have to wait for the "statute of limitations" to run it's course??? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Dying to know what sort of rebel-rouser you were!!!! :wink:
 

Ranchy

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High School..................ugh. That's a few memories I really hate to dredge up....... :lol:

We had 23 people in our graduating class, started 7th grade together with 41. Lots of them moved when the sawmill shut down, and several got left in 7th when the rest of us moved on to 8th. Not overly intellegent bunch of kiddos back then, I guess. :lol:

I got my first car, a white and red Dodge Colt, that my great uncle Joe nicknamed Ole Paint for me, the day before I graduated, before that, I got to ride the ole yeller school bus, 40 miles each way, twice a day.

I didn't even meet Hubby until I'd been out of high school almost 10 years, but I did know his younger brothers. One was a grade ahead of me, and the other (Kit) was a grade behind. I met his older brother when I was a YCC leader the summer I was 20. Knew his folks forever, seems like. Was never sure why it took so long for Hubby and me to be in the same place, at the same time. As it happened, we knew each other precisely 2 months and 2 days before we tied the knot.

I guess I was one of the more "jock" kids in my class. We won State Basketball my senior year......did great in track that year, too. I was also voted Most Talented my senior year, by the rest of the student body (which numbered 159 back then). I was in clubs like FFA, Letterman's, was on the newspaper and annual staff, and of course, active in 4-H all through high school. And spent a couple or three years in the Rodeo club. I wasn't a cheerleader, but I did spend 10th grade as a Majorette. (Yep, they were hard-up for majorettes......:nod:)

I see my high school sweetheart from time to time (saw him 3 times this past summer :wink: ). He's divorced, and I've heard he's a grandpa now, too. :shock: He was a cowboy, too. Didn't have many in our little school that weren't, though, back then.
 

Jinglebob

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I considered high school as 4 years of prison. Never did like to be stuck inside and have people telling me what to do. I'd have never went if mom hadn't insisted. Dad graduated 8th grade and that was all, and he and I figured he got along all right. I don't think I really learned any thing of any use to me, in highschool. I learned all I needed to know in the first 8 grades and by doing stuff afterwards. Got fair grades, but sluffed. Of course, boarding out 60 miles from home didn't help any.

And when I got older and learned to chase girls and party, I thought I was having fun. Looking back, I wasn't.

All my friends then, I live around now, so they were my friends then. Never made any real long lasting friendships in highschool. I was too different and not into what they were, so when we graduated, we really didn't have anything in common. I was kind of a loner. Still am. I know a lot of people, but have dang few good friends. At least what I consider good friends.

Drove a 70 3/4 ton Ford untril we wrecked it twice and then drove a Chevy half ton. Got rid of it and got a new pickup a couple years after I got out.

Didn't marry my highschool sweetheart. Didn't really have one. Why settle for just one when the world was full of girls?

I went to my 10 year reunion and it basicly sucked. Now, I just hang around people I like , not ones I have to.
 

andybob

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Highschool; Rugby team, cross country and pipe band, did marry my highschool sweetheart as well (only 28 years).
Lost three of my classmates in the civil war, as the company medic I had to deal with them, and unfortunaqtly assist in the post mortem of one.
Hated high school, miss it all now!
 

Kato

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Lots of good memories.

One of my friends had a boyfriend with a VW beetle. When he picked her up to drive to school, we five girls jumped in the back seat and hitched a ride. Good thing it was a short drive though, because an old VW has the battery under the back seat, and with us five crammed in there, it would short out. Every morning we would pull into the parking lot, jump out of the car, and throw the back seat in the snow to put out the fire! :D :D :D We could dismantle that car like a professional pit crew! I think kids waited in the parking lot just to see the show. 8)

The best part of high school was the friends. To meet up with the girls now, even after all these years, it's like we just saw each other last week. It's funny how friendships made in your youth can be some of the longest lasting ones.
 

aplusmnt

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Went to H.S. in small town of Quapaw OK, had around 40 kids in graduating class I went to school with probably 35 of them since Kindergarten.

Graduated 1982 was Class clown and loudest out of Class Favorites.

Drove a 1977 Camaro

Liked High School had lots of fun, did not apply myself much though, was one of those ADD kids that was to busy being class clown than studying.

Favorite Moment in school was when Ag Teacher announced I had won College Scholarship for Livestock Judging last day of school at school assembly. No one ever thought I was college material big shock to everyone.

I enjoyed college a lot more than High School and took it more serious.
 

nr

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aplusmnt said:
Went to H.S. in small town of Quapaw OK, had around 40 kids in graduating class I went to school with probably 35 of them since Kindergarten.

Graduated 1982 was Class clown and loudest out of Class Favorites.

Drove a 1977 Camaro

Liked High School had lots of fun, did not apply myself much though, was one of those ADD kids that was to busy being class clown than studying.

Favorite Moment in school was when Ag Teacher announced I had won College Scholarship for Livestock Judging last day of school at school assembly. No one ever thought I was college material big shock to everyone.

I enjoyed college a lot more than High School and took it more serious.
It has always intrigued me how every child matures at a different rate- a reminder to never get too frustrated with a kid's attitude or choices- never write them off- because they will probably change by the time they're in their 20s...or 30s.
Just talking with a delightfully funny and sincere woman last night who had a major change in her wild life's direction in her early 40s when her husb. died of AIDS. Now she is attending church with one teen and things are straightening around and she has some measure of peace only God can give. Life still has its rocky areas from fall-out from her earlier life but as she says with confidence, "I'm a whole different woman now."
 

katrina

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High school was terrible.......
Big strong girl jocks weren't real popular...
High school arm wrestling champ.
Drove a 67 ford called harvey. Then moved up to a 72 3/4 ton pickup called blue.... Was the fastest thing in Grant County........
Several years after I was married, I found blue in a used car lot. They were going to part it out.. So I bought it and drove it for years as a farm truck.... It would ball haul down the highway like a new pickup, but short little drives would make it sputter and cough..... Sold it on an auction a couple of years ago....
Wouldn't want to go back to high school EVER.
 

nr

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katrina said:
High school was terrible.......
Big strong girl jocks weren't real popular...
High school arm wrestling champ.
Drove a 67 ford called harvey. Then moved up to a 72 3/4 ton pickup called blue.... Was the fastest thing in Grant County........
Several years after I was married, I found blue in a used car lot. They were going to part it out.. So I bought it and drove it for years as a farm truck.... It would ball haul down the highway like a new pickup, but short little drives would make it sputter and cough..... Sold it on an auction a couple of years ago....
Wouldn't want to go back to high school EVER.
Some of the big highschools would probably KILL to have you on their girls' soccer and volleyball teams now, Katrina. Maybe your son's school would take you on? :wink:
 

Northern Rancher

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ranchwife I wasthinking of writing a tell all book when my yet to be born grandchildren are in an old folks home. Let's put it this way I see some kids acting up and I think what little a......s then I think 'Wait a minute -they couldn't harrow what I used to plow" lol.
 

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