Rambling Vines
I got a nice surprise from former resident, Mrs. Bertha Motsinger recently. The box contained some really neat, colorful, butterflies made out of magazine pages. She said for me to share with my neighbor, Dot, which I did. Naturally, we are going to try making them. See, I use butterflies in my bathroom, so I just fastened three of them to the wall and like the way they look. The Motsingers are former Corning residents and Leonard and Judy were both about my age. In fact, Leonard and I were classmates until they moved off to Michigan. If any local senior citizen of Bible School group would like to have the pattern I will share. They are fun to make and require a minimum of materials. Bert said that she learned to make them at a Senor Center. The Motsingers lived next door to the Smalleys (Dot’s folks) when we were growing up and the way Dot tells it, she and her sister, Elsie Mae, along with Judy, Emaline and Caroline Wright, Rachel Bailey and Betty Grant used to have some pretty heated arguments while playing paper dolls. Speaking of Elise Mae, one day after school, Elsie Mae and Lilly Pillow sat in the Smalley porch swing and ate a whole pound box of soda crackers… that night Elsie Mae had to have an emergency appendectomy!
