Lee in Action! | Grandma’s Stories

Apr 25th Lee in Action!

“Little Lee” not quite two 2 years old and pulling the lawn mower – looks like he has lots of strength? Everything from the “Lawn & Tool Shed” that was possible for Little Lee to haul to his friend’s house one block away, he brought there! We were the first house on this block on N.E. 18^th Avenue and Lee’s friend, Arthur’s house was the first house one block north. Our house was on the block next to the Bennett School, and most of the kids in the neighborhood would pass by our house if they walked to school. In the 1960’s, I do not remember any school buses picking up kids – but maybe some of the parents might drive the children.

Little Lee is a very friendly child, and with his two step-brothers, who were older, there were quite a few boys in and around our house. I was also “DEN-Mother” for Donald’s Cub-scout group and we would have weekly meetings and the “PACK” meetings once a month at the school. In my Cub-scout group – Little Lee was included in lots of the activities we did in our home as I would take my group of boys on trips which included Little Lee – as he was having lots of fun seeing and meeting boys and learning lots with the boys in my “DEN” group.

With each of the “DEN” weekly meetings, there were supplies that I needed for each boy to work with, as I did not think that each of the boys could afford to be buying the necessary materials that were required, I would go to different stores and ask for donations of things they might be throwing out – but items that we could make do for the scout projects. A great place to get lots of items – were the local wall-paper stores. They would have expired sample books of wall paper swatches and other items that the “CUB SCOUTS” really enjoyed looking through for papers that blended in that which they had in their own homes – and one popular item the boys would make was a “WASTE BASKET” – and other fancy papered boxes to use in their homes! “Kentucky Fried Chicken” provided the buckets that my group of boys would decorate.

Little Lee would participate in making waste baskets as well as lots of the other things they were doing – somewhere in the “past” stories you will see Little Lee in a “CUB SCOUT” uniform and just as soon as Lee was old enough – he joined the “CUB SCOUTS!”