Hi there kids, welcome
back to Grandma's House.
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I have a favorite
grandson with me here today,
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this is Ryan.
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We haven't been doing much
special, just hanging out until
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a few minutes ago and something
really fun and interesting
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pulled into our driveway.
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Should we go and
check it out? - sure.
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Alright let's go. There is
a vehicle up here, the kind
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that I have
wanted all of my life.
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I'll bet you will be surprised
when you see it, Oh I love
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this vehicle, and here's
the fine gentlemen who owns it.
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Hi there Mike -
I'm Mike, - Hi Mike.
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Mike Dunes from Centralia,
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Just close by. - yes,
now tell me about this car.
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I have just
fallen in love with it.
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This car is in
1914 Model T. Ford.
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It sold for $440 brand-new
back in 1914, that was 93 years
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ago and in seven more years
it will be a hundred years old.
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So anyway this car is in
its original condition, it has
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been repainted one time and
it runs and drives beautifully.
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Shall we start it up? -
yeah, how do you start it?
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Well they start with this crank.
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And what we do is engage
the crank and it catches the
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ratchet on the
engine and turns it over.
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Was that hard? - no not too bad.
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But you have to be careful and
not advance the spark, as long
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as this spark lever is up
when you start the car, it's
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okay, but if you pull it
down - then what happens?
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You could get hurt, so
let's pull this up and give it
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a little bit throttle
and turn the spark on.
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All right come on.
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We will push this in and
crank it over and hope that
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it will start. - oh look at it!
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When it starts to go
you have to advance this.
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Oh I love it. - it smoothes
it out, it's a manual advance.
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So let's get in the car -
and take it for a little spin.
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Sure let's try
it. - okay you drive.
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All right let's go.
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Here we go.
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This thing is capable
of going 35 miles an hour.
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Oh that's nice -
that's a top speed.
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What's the longest
trip you had her on?
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This car I had about 50 miles.
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This is the speedometer -
yet that's the speedometer.
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You know this used to be
quite a thing when people will
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go out for a Sunday
drive with their whole family.
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What fun is
this? Whew here we go.
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Wahoo.
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Ah another thing about
these old cars is that when
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you went out at night
you had headlights, but they
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weren't quite like the
headlights we have today.
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So Mike tell us about these
lights, tell us how they work.
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Well these are actually carbide
lights for late, pure dark
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but just before dark or
dusk you could run on these
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- oh how romantic.
These kerosene lights.
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These are carbide and these
are kerosene and you just light
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it in here on the wick
and close the little door.
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oh isn't that neat? It reminds
me of the old lamp lighters
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so that when it got darker
you would light these also?
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Yeah these weren't safe enough
for driving at high speeds
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so then these were
activated and they showed
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up pretty good at night.
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So okay grandma lets
see if you can start it up.
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Oh what a challenge, I
don't know - turn the crank.
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I'm game for
anything so let's see.
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What do you do?
Do you push it in.
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You push it in - push in
first - and turn the switch on.
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Yeah you have TO
turn the switch on.
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Okay one more time, I'm
going to do this if it kills me.
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It might, all right Yahhhhh!
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Well almost, I'm getting
there, I'm getting there.
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One more time -
push it a little more.
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There's got to be a
trick to this old car.
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It's harder than it looks.
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Well I don't
know, I just don't know.
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You know what this old car
reminds me of some kids I know.
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Sometimes they're kind of
cranky and it's hard to get them
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started, but I'm
not going to give up.
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I'm going to start some more.
Let's try it one more time.
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All right let's do it.
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Mike I just got to thank you
so much for bringing it over.
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Now you show me how to
properly start this engine.
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Well I think I can
do it, it should go.
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Did you turn on
all right switches?
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I don't know if I
believe you are not.
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I'll go around a couple
of times and there we go.
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Oh, just like
that. Oh thank you.
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All it takes is a little muscle.
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Hey kids Graham Joyce
would love to hear from you.
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So why not sit down
and write her a letter?
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Like every grandma
she loves to get pictures,
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drawings or
anything else you send her.
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Just write to:
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So what are you
waiting for? Write her today.
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Alright you guys
stop the snickering.
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I never did get that
engine to turn over for me.
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Mike sure made it look
easy, but I found that old car
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was stubborn as a mule.
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What a blast to putt
around in that snazzy jalopy,
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just like the grand old days
of the very first automobiles.
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If I was a rich grandma,
I'd love to buy an old tiny car
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fix it up and load
all you kids in the back.
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Then off we would go
for the ride of a lifetime.
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Wouldn't we be something?
We could dress up in top hats
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and duster coats and go touring
over Hill and Dale to the
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delight and amazement
of all of our friends.
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We would pack a picnic
lunch and we would dash off to
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the beach whenever we wanted.
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Play in the sand all day
and drive home again at night
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under the summer stars.
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Ah how fun it is to imagine
and dream, to aspire and to
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reach in one's mind
for something elusive.
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To be able to enjoy the
imagination is much of a reality
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and it is a real
blessing from God you know.
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Share an imagination
among friends is another way of
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of binding our
hearts together in oneness.
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When we dream together, we
turn from looking at each other
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to all of us looking
in the same direction.
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Our hearts react just as
if we really done the thing
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we dreamed about, it
helps us love each other more.
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It kind of reminding me
of what it is like chasing
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butterflies, they are
so beautiful and delicate.
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We just want to
hold them in our hands.
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So off we go following
them where ever they float,
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just out of reach but we
keep following and reaching
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forward while all the
time they lure us with silent
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tugs of fascination.
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Just one beautiful
butterfly followed by
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a dozen dreaming children.
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But with butterflies at least
it's probably best to never
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actually hold one in
your hand, unless it lights on
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your fingers of itself,
some dreams are like that too.
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They are delightful to
imagine, fun to think about,
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but best not caught less it
lands right in your hand and
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then it's a gift from God
sent to bless your heart and
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you can enjoy it
until your hearts content.
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Well I certainly don't
know how I ended up out here
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in dream land, do you?
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I must've been having
butterfly thoughts again,
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and I really wanted
to show you some other
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cranky things from the past.
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When grandpa was still a
boy, his grandpa owned a big
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farm in Pennsylvania
and one of the cranky things
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on the farm was a
machine that was used
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to separate milk and cream.
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Now in case you didn't
realize it when milk comes
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fresh from the cow it
doesn't come homogenized like
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you get in the store.
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I'm sure most of you know
this, but maybe you are a kid
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who just never
thought about it before.
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If you put fresh from the
cow milk in a bottle and set
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it aside for a little while,
the cream will rise to the
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top and it will leave
the milk on the bottom.
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Well if you have lots of
cows and you sell their milk
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to a dairy or a creamery,
you get a different price
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according to how much
cream there is in the milk.
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Well back in the old
days farmers would use a cream
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separator to do the job
faster than letting milk
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sit on a shelf.
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It was a bit clunky old
thing, with spigots and spouts
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all over the place.
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It had an opening at the
top where you poured in the milk
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and a crank on the side to
turn the gears and the flywheels
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inside its belly.
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I don't know exactly how
it worked, but it spun the
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milk around inside its
self and because the cream was
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heavier it eventually
shot off in one direction while
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the milk went somewhere else.
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It was a wonderfully ingenious
invention, dreamed up in
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someone's mind to make
things better in the world.
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You know most anything
we do with electricity today
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was once done with
cranks and pulleys and muscles.
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But my favorite cranky thing
from my very own childhood,
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could you guess? I had a
little toy washing machine
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that could wash my dolls
clothes and it had a crank on
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the side too, but
that wasn't my favorite.
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I had my bike which was
kind of cranky with legs,
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but that is not it either.
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My very favorite cranky
thing was the ice cream freezer.
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We'd take it out on a hot
summer afternoon with all the
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relatives around and
here is how this thing worked.
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Mama would make up a big
batch of our favorite flavor
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and then she would pour
the liquid into this can.
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Can you see it in there?
Then she would put on the lid.
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Before that she would
put in this paddle, this is
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the thing that turns and
made the ice cream come from
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the outside of
the can to the inside.
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At last daddy would pack the
bucket with all kinds of rock
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salt and ice in layers.
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I tell you what, the most fun
part, the cranking could begin.
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Everybody wanted to
crank at first because it was
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easier then, all the
big boys started turning.
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It seemed to take forever
but eventually it would be
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time to take the
paddle out again.
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All the cousins would
gather around hoping to get
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the first licks, Yum, Yum.
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Ice cream would stick in
all those little crevices.
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There is nothing you can
get in the store today that
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can hold a candle to
what we made it home together.
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All around a little
bucket with a cranky handle.
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So as I leave you here is some
thing I want you to remember.
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Cranky things are for using,
cranky people are for cheering
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up, and your mind, well
just get it cranking out some
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happy thoughts and
ingenious inventions.
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I love you guys all
so much, until next time
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don't you be a crank.
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No I'm going to do this or die.
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Which way, which way does
it crank this way or this way?
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You can only go one way.
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Push it in.
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There's too many
horses in this engine.
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