As hard as it may be to imagine, we have had no radio/CD player in this house until yesterday. We used to have a lot of radios and systems, but gradually they bit the dust or grew out-dated or left with the kids. Of course, I could play my Christmas CD's in the computer, but I really wanted to listen to them in my kitchen while I'm working. I have also fallen in love with the K-LOVE radio station that was constantly tuned in at Anthony and Lori's house.
The other day I noticed a GE Spacesaver radio/CD player on Craigslist for just $15, and yesterday Dick bought it and installed it. I wish it were black, but it sounds great and it's right where I can listen while I'm cooking.
Being excited about getting a radio reminded me of a similar experience many, many years ago - fourth grade, to be exact.
But let me go back even further than that. When I was a pre-schooler we had a green AM radio. The main thing I can remember hearing on that radio was the Mickey and Jack Haines show. They were very funny and very "dutchified". (That is an adjective that describes an accent, in case you wondered.)
When I was in first grade my dad became an ordained deacon in our Mennonite church. At that time a requirement of ordination was to get rid of the radio. I guess we didn't actually get rid of it, because I vividly remember that in the midst of a blizzard one winter we went up to the attic to listen to the weather news on that radio!
When I was in fourth grade I had been at a sleepover at a friend's house and came to school with her the next morning. When I was hanging up my coat in the coatroom, my eighth grade sister Mary Ellen came into the room and whispered to me, "Don't tell anybody. We got a radio last evening." I could not believe it, and could hardly stand not being allowed to tell anyone.
When I got home, there was that little brown and beige AM/FM radio that we were now allowed to have. I didn't understand what had changed at that point, but have since found out. A new Christian FM radio station had started up in our area - WDAC. Such a thing had never before existed in our area, and apparently it's arrival on the air caused the powers-that-be to determine that ordained deacons and preachers (which my dad was by that time) could now own a radio.
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Oh the memories! We always had a radio, but didn't have a tv. My Mom listened to a christian station that was always on. I remember getting my own radio when I was older.
Now I've checked out K-LOVE and have it streaming live!
I did the streaming-live thing a few times, but my computer is too far away from my kitchen. The main time that I'm in the kitchen cooking is when Austin is napping, so it's just perfect to have this little radio right where I'm working.
RAAAAN-GEEEEER BIIIIIILLLLLLL! Warrior of the woodlands!
:o) Many fond memories.
I did not know this local tidbit of Mennonite history!
Oh how well I remember that radio! And Aunt Bertha and the rest. I remember having a family from Grand Rapids for Sunday dinner (visitors at church and Mom invited them home...what a Mom!) and the kids had MET Aunt Bertha! I was in awe =)
yes I remember all those programs on wdac. And also unschackled the drama of those becomming Christains from either being a drunk or something else.
Yes!!! Unshackled! We loved that program - Sundays at 6:00, I think.
I enjoyed your reflections, Jeanie. How well I remember the times I looked for that green radio in the attic and never found it. How surprised I was when one day Dad brought it from the attic!!
I don't think I could live without my radio! It is on ALL day long.
I like your little under the cupboard radio. Very nice!
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