As a child, my family and I gathered around to watch Leave It to Beaver on our black and white television while we ate homemade sugared popcorn. So when I saw this birthday card's retro artwork and listened to the theme song from the T.V. series upon opening it, I had to have it. The card's inside message reads "The Beaver would want it that way."
The card's envelope is just as cute with its simplistic drawings of televisions from the 1950s era.
When my daughters were young, we watched the Little House on the Prairie T.V. series, which ran from 1974-1983, while we ate homemade caramel popcorn. So when my son-in-law, Patrick, emailed me a link to a newspaper article featuring things to do in the Minneapolis area... one of which was a Little House on the Prairie musical at the Guthrie Theater running from July 26-October 19, featuring Melissa Gilbert as "Ma" no less, I called to order tickets. All seats were sold out and I got busy with no time to get away so I forgot about it... until Saturday, October 18. I decided to make another attempt at securing tickets. I would be able to break away to attend the Sunday, October 19 1 p.m. final performance if I could just get tickets. So Saturday afternoon I called the Guthrie ticket sales office. Sadly, the response was the same... sold out. The kind voice at the other end encouraged me not to give up, however. She advised me to try again around 4 p.m. and again just before ticket sales closed for the day at 8 p.m. I heeded her advice and called just after 4 p.m. There were four seats available in Row E center section (five rows back from the stage) due to a cancellation! The location couldn't have been more perfect if I had been able to choose it out of all of the seats in the theater. I purchased all four seats and invited my sister Rita and her husband Jerry to accompany Dick and I. What an amazing performance... some tears mixed with laughter... in the right proportions... a memory-maker. Rita topped the day off with chili and apple crisp at her house before we headed back home to Brainerd. A most wonderful day indeed...