I’m usually fairly good when it comes to finding things on the Internet; but when I wanted to show my grandkids a picture of what we (Grandpa and I) used for writing paper in the early 1950’s, I couldn’t easily locate a picture. Not that I won’t keep looking, but I think I’m going to have to go through some of my father’s things to see if one of the things he saved from my childhood was written on that paper.

What originally got Der Bingle and I thinking about the paper was a conversation in the past about bread. Bear with me, please, the connection makes sense. You see Der Bingle and Quentin pay attention to eating healthy bread, and, from my unbiased view, it appears their idea of healthy bread is a dense slab of fiber. It takes a lot of chewing, and, in fact, they refer to some of it as “twig bread.”

OKAY. RIGHT HERE SOMETHING WENT WRONG.

There should be more paragraphs; I wrote them. I wrote about the barely processed paper we were given in early school years and mentioned that Der Bingle told Quentin we had “to write around the chunks of wood” that were embedded in the sheet. Then I added more about the really fat pencils we had to use.

I was going to hit publish, but Summer came out and I went for “Save Draft” and, apparently, what later showed up was NOT all she wrote. I don’t want to fool with it this morning, so I just threw out the gist of the original paragraphs.

I don’t know – maybe the gist is the geist of my thoughts yesterday.