Grandma's House

Cranky

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants: Joyce Neal

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Series Code: GH

Program Code: GH000016


00:01 Hi there kids, welcome back to Grandma's House.
00:03 I have a favorite grandson with me here today,
00:07 this is Ryan.
00:08 We haven't been doing much special, just hanging out until
00:12 a few minutes ago and something really fun and interesting
00:16 pulled into our driveway.
00:17 Should we go and check it out? - sure.
00:19 Alright let's go. There is a vehicle up here, the kind
00:25 that I have wanted all of my life.
00:28 I'll bet you will be surprised when you see it, Oh I love
00:31 this vehicle, and here's the fine gentlemen who owns it.
00:35 Hi there Mike - I'm Mike, - Hi Mike.
00:38 Mike Dunes from Centralia,
00:41 Just close by. - yes, now tell me about this car.
00:46 I have just fallen in love with it.
00:48 This car is in 1914 Model T. Ford.
00:51 It sold for $440 brand-new back in 1914, that was 93 years
00:57 ago and in seven more years it will be a hundred years old.
01:03 So anyway this car is in its original condition, it has
01:08 been repainted one time and it runs and drives beautifully.
01:13 Shall we start it up? - yeah, how do you start it?
01:17 Well they start with this crank.
01:22 And what we do is engage the crank and it catches the
01:26 ratchet on the engine and turns it over.
01:28 Was that hard? - no not too bad.
01:32 But you have to be careful and not advance the spark, as long
01:37 as this spark lever is up when you start the car, it's
01:40 okay, but if you pull it down - then what happens?
01:44 You could get hurt, so let's pull this up and give it
01:48 a little bit throttle and turn the spark on.
01:50 All right come on.
01:52 We will push this in and crank it over and hope that
01:58 it will start. - oh look at it!
02:01 When it starts to go you have to advance this.
02:04 Oh I love it. - it smoothes it out, it's a manual advance.
02:12 So let's get in the car - and take it for a little spin.
02:15 Sure let's try it. - okay you drive.
02:18 All right let's go.
02:29 Here we go.
03:01 This thing is capable of going 35 miles an hour.
03:06 Oh that's nice - that's a top speed.
03:08 What's the longest trip you had her on?
03:10 This car I had about 50 miles.
03:14 This is the speedometer - yet that's the speedometer.
03:21 You know this used to be quite a thing when people will
03:25 go out for a Sunday drive with their whole family.
03:51 What fun is this? Whew here we go.
03:58 Wahoo.
04:06 Ah another thing about these old cars is that when
04:10 you went out at night you had headlights, but they
04:13 weren't quite like the headlights we have today.
04:16 So Mike tell us about these lights, tell us how they work.
04:20 Well these are actually carbide lights for late, pure dark
04:23 but just before dark or dusk you could run on these
04:26 - oh how romantic. These kerosene lights.
04:29 These are carbide and these are kerosene and you just light
04:34 it in here on the wick and close the little door.
04:38 oh isn't that neat? It reminds me of the old lamp lighters
04:42 so that when it got darker you would light these also?
04:46 Yeah these weren't safe enough for driving at high speeds
04:50 so then these were activated and they showed
04:53 up pretty good at night.
04:54 So okay grandma lets see if you can start it up.
04:57 Oh what a challenge, I don't know - turn the crank.
04:59 I'm game for anything so let's see.
05:01 What do you do? Do you push it in.
05:03 You push it in - push in first - and turn the switch on.
05:06 Yeah you have TO turn the switch on.
05:21 Okay one more time, I'm going to do this if it kills me.
05:25 It might, all right Yahhhhh!
05:34 Well almost, I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
05:38 One more time - push it a little more.
05:52 There's got to be a trick to this old car.
05:56 It's harder than it looks.
06:02 Well I don't know, I just don't know.
06:05 You know what this old car reminds me of some kids I know.
06:08 Sometimes they're kind of cranky and it's hard to get them
06:11 started, but I'm not going to give up.
06:13 I'm going to start some more. Let's try it one more time.
06:16 All right let's do it.
06:48 Mike I just got to thank you so much for bringing it over.
06:51 Now you show me how to properly start this engine.
06:54 Well I think I can do it, it should go.
06:57 Did you turn on all right switches?
07:00 I don't know if I believe you are not.
07:08 I'll go around a couple of times and there we go.
07:11 Oh, just like that. Oh thank you.
07:13 All it takes is a little muscle.
07:14 Hey kids Graham Joyce would love to hear from you.
07:20 So why not sit down and write her a letter?
07:23 Like every grandma she loves to get pictures,
07:25 drawings or anything else you send her.
07:28 Just write to:
07:41 So what are you waiting for? Write her today.
07:47 Alright you guys stop the snickering.
07:49 I never did get that engine to turn over for me.
07:52 Mike sure made it look easy, but I found that old car
07:56 was stubborn as a mule.
07:58 What a blast to putt around in that snazzy jalopy,
08:02 just like the grand old days of the very first automobiles.
08:06 If I was a rich grandma, I'd love to buy an old tiny car
08:10 fix it up and load all you kids in the back.
08:13 Then off we would go for the ride of a lifetime.
08:15 Wouldn't we be something? We could dress up in top hats
08:20 and duster coats and go touring over Hill and Dale to the
08:24 delight and amazement of all of our friends.
08:26 We would pack a picnic lunch and we would dash off to
08:30 the beach whenever we wanted.
08:32 Play in the sand all day and drive home again at night
08:35 under the summer stars.
08:38 Ah how fun it is to imagine and dream, to aspire and to
08:44 reach in one's mind for something elusive.
08:46 To be able to enjoy the imagination is much of a reality
08:50 and it is a real blessing from God you know.
08:52 Share an imagination among friends is another way of
08:56 of binding our hearts together in oneness.
08:58 When we dream together, we turn from looking at each other
09:03 to all of us looking in the same direction.
09:06 Our hearts react just as if we really done the thing
09:09 we dreamed about, it helps us love each other more.
09:13 It kind of reminding me of what it is like chasing
09:16 butterflies, they are so beautiful and delicate.
09:19 We just want to hold them in our hands.
09:22 So off we go following them where ever they float,
09:25 just out of reach but we keep following and reaching
09:29 forward while all the time they lure us with silent
09:33 tugs of fascination.
09:34 Just one beautiful butterfly followed by
09:38 a dozen dreaming children.
09:40 But with butterflies at least it's probably best to never
09:43 actually hold one in your hand, unless it lights on
09:47 your fingers of itself, some dreams are like that too.
09:51 They are delightful to imagine, fun to think about,
09:54 but best not caught less it lands right in your hand and
09:58 then it's a gift from God sent to bless your heart and
10:01 you can enjoy it until your hearts content.
10:04 Well I certainly don't know how I ended up out here
10:09 in dream land, do you?
10:11 I must've been having butterfly thoughts again,
10:13 and I really wanted to show you some other
10:16 cranky things from the past.
10:18 When grandpa was still a boy, his grandpa owned a big
10:22 farm in Pennsylvania and one of the cranky things
10:26 on the farm was a machine that was used
10:28 to separate milk and cream.
10:31 Now in case you didn't realize it when milk comes
10:34 fresh from the cow it doesn't come homogenized like
10:37 you get in the store.
10:38 I'm sure most of you know this, but maybe you are a kid
10:41 who just never thought about it before.
10:43 If you put fresh from the cow milk in a bottle and set
10:46 it aside for a little while, the cream will rise to the
10:49 top and it will leave the milk on the bottom.
10:51 Well if you have lots of cows and you sell their milk
10:55 to a dairy or a creamery, you get a different price
10:57 according to how much cream there is in the milk.
11:01 Well back in the old days farmers would use a cream
11:04 separator to do the job faster than letting milk
11:07 sit on a shelf.
11:08 It was a bit clunky old thing, with spigots and spouts
11:12 all over the place.
11:13 It had an opening at the top where you poured in the milk
11:16 and a crank on the side to turn the gears and the flywheels
11:19 inside its belly.
11:21 I don't know exactly how it worked, but it spun the
11:25 milk around inside its self and because the cream was
11:28 heavier it eventually shot off in one direction while
11:31 the milk went somewhere else.
11:33 It was a wonderfully ingenious invention, dreamed up in
11:38 someone's mind to make things better in the world.
11:41 You know most anything we do with electricity today
11:45 was once done with cranks and pulleys and muscles.
11:48 But my favorite cranky thing from my very own childhood,
11:52 could you guess? I had a little toy washing machine
11:57 that could wash my dolls clothes and it had a crank on
12:01 the side too, but that wasn't my favorite.
12:03 I had my bike which was kind of cranky with legs,
12:07 but that is not it either.
12:08 My very favorite cranky thing was the ice cream freezer.
12:13 We'd take it out on a hot summer afternoon with all the
12:16 relatives around and here is how this thing worked.
12:20 Mama would make up a big batch of our favorite flavor
12:23 and then she would pour the liquid into this can.
12:26 Can you see it in there? Then she would put on the lid.
12:30 Before that she would put in this paddle, this is
12:33 the thing that turns and made the ice cream come from
12:36 the outside of the can to the inside.
12:38 At last daddy would pack the bucket with all kinds of rock
12:41 salt and ice in layers.
12:44 I tell you what, the most fun part, the cranking could begin.
12:49 Everybody wanted to crank at first because it was
12:53 easier then, all the big boys started turning.
12:58 It seemed to take forever but eventually it would be
13:01 time to take the paddle out again.
13:03 All the cousins would gather around hoping to get
13:06 the first licks, Yum, Yum.
13:09 Ice cream would stick in all those little crevices.
13:12 There is nothing you can get in the store today that
13:16 can hold a candle to what we made it home together.
13:19 All around a little bucket with a cranky handle.
13:22 So as I leave you here is some thing I want you to remember.
13:27 Cranky things are for using, cranky people are for cheering
13:31 up, and your mind, well just get it cranking out some
13:36 happy thoughts and ingenious inventions.
13:39 I love you guys all so much, until next time
13:42 don't you be a crank.
13:49 No I'm going to do this or die.
13:52 Which way, which way does it crank this way or this way?
13:54 You can only go one way.
13:56 Push it in.
13:58 There's too many horses in this engine.


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