Peace of Mind for You & Your Family

Sharmar Village is a local and family-owned Senior Care Community made up of a team of passionate and skilled caregivers in Pueblo, Colorado.

Within the historic Aberdeen Neighborhood is our beautiful campus providing long-term care, memory care, assisted living, independent living, and rehabilitation services.

From the Internet: Someone asked the other day.....

'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, I informed him, ' All the food was slow .'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,' I explained! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the guy was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood, if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levi’s, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11:00 p.m., after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6:00 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people ...

I never had a telephone in my room. Our only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread.

All newspapers were deliv-

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SharmarVillage.com ered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 5 AM every morning. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Don't blame me if they bust their gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES (Internet):

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Peace of Mind for You & Your Family

Peace of Mind for You & Your Family

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. Also, came across this on the internet, thought you might like it:

Try this quiz (Internet and me): Count all the ones that you remember, NOT the ones you were told about ! Ratings at the bottom.

1. Candy cigarettes. 2. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes (loved them). 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles. 4. Party lines on the telephones. 5. Newsreels before the movie

6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (Only 3 channels! If you had a TV!), 7. Pea-shooters. 8. Howdy Doody

9. 45 RPM records. 10. 78 rpm records. 11. Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm. 12. Metal ice trays with lever. 13. Blue flashbulb. 14. Cork popguns.

15. Studebakers (I owned a Studebaker LarkJames). 16. Wash tub wringers. 17. Playing outdoors until dark in the summer (usually Kick the Can or Hide and Seek and coming home with 15 mosquito bites).. 18. Using mercurochrome or alcohol to ease the bites. 19. Having a neighborhood grocery store and sitting outside drinking Ma's Cola in the summer. 20. Searching back alleys and such trying to find

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If you remembered 0-10 = You're still young If you remembered 11-15 = You are getting older If you remembered 16-20 = Don't tell your age, & If you remembered 21-25 = You're considered old by any standard!

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As a person living in his 75th year (which I started in February) I look back at my past with some personal and embarrassing regrets but it seems silly that they are still part of my life. They took place such a long time ago for the most part; you'd think they'd leave my mind. This, from a person with a memory of, for instance, walking into a room and saying, "Why am I in here!" Sometimes it comes back to me.

Sometimes I leave the room only to return, forgetting the principal reason I came in again but always leave with something that catches my eye. I leave, sit down and realize I didn't get or do what I went into that room now twice. Sometimes three or four times before I do or get what I need. I can't remember these things over and over again BUT, something from my past haunts me like it was yesterday. I keep my mind busy, mostly thinking about things I've done or didn't do in my past but also on things that are important in my everyday life. I've been busy with Senior Beacon duties, yardwork (a lot of that), upgrading my 27-year home (a lot of that) want to relive them. The Creator has blessed me with a life that has been challenging, full of love and livable. Much like everyone else. We all have complaints. We all have had miserable experiences. But we have been treated to long lives and were given much, if not all, what life has to offer. I thank God for that simple fact.

There's still more to come, but I remain content in knowing I'm in the minority of those who were given life from time's beginning.

How about you?

Remember the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Jesus's promise in his own words as told to Maria Faustina Kowalska of Poland (you could look up her life in many ways) at the beginning of WWII. That promise guarantees a place in heaven (the words of Jesus, not mine or Her's). I have the prayers and His promise in a pamphlet that is yours for free. Just contact me at srbeacon@gmail. com or P.O. Box 7215, Pueblo West, CO810070215 and give me your name and address and I'll send you this wonderful pamphlet. No gimmicks and I'll immediately trash your information once your pamphlet is sent. Join the growing ranks of readers that know something you don't about eternity. Godspeed to you and yours

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At the end of the month, return your menu to your café specialist and write in a 1-3 rank on the day’s entree.

1=Don’t love it;

2=It’s Good;

3=LOVE it!

Menu substitutions may occur without notice. Clients are advised to keep a 3-day supply of nonperishable foods and bottled water in their home in the event of inclement weather or other emergencies that may cause a temporary suspension of service.

Menu substitutions may occur without notice. Clients are advised to keep a 3-day supply of non-perishable foods and bottled water in the event ofinclement weather or other emergencies that may cause a temporary suspension of service.

S R D A Meals On Wheels Menu

Please remember SRDA in your planned giving. Your legacy lives on, our mission continues at Meals on Wheels.

* In order to prevent waste, we are on a Reservation System.

* Please call the day before or the morning of, before 9:00 A.M, to CANCEL your Meal

* IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Numbers in parentheses next to each meal item indicate the number of carbohydrates in grams for that item. * YOU MUST BE HOME TO RECEIVE YOUR MEAL!!!

Consumers attending the congregate meal sites shall be advised and informed to keep a three-day supply of non-perishable foods and bottled water in case of inclement weather or other emergency that causes a temporary suspension of services. If feasible and determined by the Area Agency on Aging in their area plan, emergency meal packages may be provided.