Diane Hammari Conn: I was just thinking about the good old days on Grandpa Glen's walnut ranch. 25 cents a bucket and cookies in the cookie drawer! Now those were good times!
Chantelle Hosford Haynie: I want a cookie drawer!
Diane Hammari Conn: Grandpa ALWAYS had a cookie drawer!
Chantelle Hosford Haynie: That's it I'm making one!
Diane Hammari Conn: Let me know if you need help in deciding on the contents of your drawer. I'm a great taste tester!
Mark Hammari: I guess I'm a grandpa now. Do I need a cookie drawer? Or is that for great-grandpas?
Adam Vincent: amen
Virginia Vincent Curtis: Hmmm... you don't mention running for you life to get out of the way of the harvester coming down the hill without brakes! Those really were the days!
Julie Hammari: I buy macaroons on occasion for this very reason
Pamela Curtis Wiggins: mmmm... macaroons. You forgot to mention the slopes... and the pool. I very clearly remember getting wet in the pool, putting pants over my swimsuit and sliding down the slopes and then having to sit on my towel all the way home because of the muddy butt... :) GOOD times!
Diane Hammari Conn: Hey, remember the water spiket behind the garage? That's still my favorite water fountain in the world.
Diane Hammari Conn: Dad, all Grandpas SHOULD have a cookie drawer.
Lawrence Borges: Janet seems to remember Iced Oatmeal cookies and $1 walnut buckets.
I would marvel at how you guys would all jump into the pool that was filled with COLD well water and swam like fishes. It might as well have been a polar bear swim at boy s...
Diane Hammari Conn: Lawrence, that is because you are a wuss! Cold water is the only way to swim especially when its green and slick on the bottom!
and eventually the buckets got all the way to $2.50 but the first buckets I remembered were 25 cents.
Pamela Curtis Wiggins: as we got older the price to keep us picking up walnuts got higher... 5 year olds will gladly fill a bucket for a quarter, 15 year olds need more. As for the coldness of the pool, ya do what ya gotta to stay cool.
The cookies were either iced oatmeal, oatmeal raisin, or macaroons (were there chocolate chip ones too? I don't remember)... the oatmeal raisin ones were my least favorite (since I never have liked raisins), but all three will forever hold a special place in my heart (And cookie drawer).
Mike Hammari: The best part was getting older and realizing that the one cookie limit wasn't really a rule. That and the better cookies were kept in the cupboard above the drawer.
Pamela Curtis Wiggins: yeah- like we didn't always grab a cookie EVERYTIME we went in for a bathroom break. :)
Lawrence Borges: @ Diane. Well, maybe I am a wuss. You guys were brought up on that pool and were lucky to have it. As for me, the only pool I got to use when I was young was the neighborhood one at the high school and they charged you .50c to get in.
Rachel Vincent: I loved those cookies. Don't know what about them that made them so good but I always grabbed as many as I could.
Virginia Vincent Curtis: Diane, you really started something - want to suggest the next topic of conversation?
Virginia Vincent Curtis: My kids either picked up walnuts for Grandpa or they didn't have money to spend at Christmas time.
Diane Hammari Conn: Pam- sometimes there were chocolate chip. And Michael's right, if you didn't like the flavor in the drawer I knew where the other flavors were kept.
