- walking to grandpa's house 3 miles away with no fear
- the same teacher for grades one to eight
- no homework except reading in those eight years
- listening to the radio for all our news
- cooking on the wood stove
- learning to light the wood stove
- canning our vegetables with mother
- fresh fruit canned every summer for winter
- making jam from home grown raspberries
- daddy telling us the weather for the day by looking out the window:-)
- playing in the woods
- finding the first spring flowers which were wild
- wild lady slippers which are a special flower found in rare places
- path well worn to our out house
- chicken hawks which really did try to steal our chickens
- baby chicks every spring who had their own wee house
- all our milk cows had names
- the hay loft where daddy always left a space for brother and I to play in
- books and books to read for all our adventures
- no holidays as farmers could not leave the milk cows
- neighbors coming in to do chores when an emergency came up
- dry tree hunting with daddy for wood to burn
- green trees cut down to dry for an year
- washing eggs to take to town for mother's egg money
- going to vocation bible school in the summer for a week at our school house- yes, we walked :-)
- the wood pile and getting chips to start the stove in the summer
- using ashes on our walking paths in the winter
- washing the cream separator every day
- making our pet food from grain and scraps
- barn cats and one house cat
- our big red barn which is still standing but has a lean now
- our first little house in the woods- it was really little :-)
- watching for chimney fires and helping clean the stove pipes once a month
- our little wood heater in the living room- we did not have heat in the bed rooms
- quilts and more quilts for winter
- putting bricks in the oven to heat for bedtime in the winter
- walking to the main road in the spring as it was to wet and muddy to bring the truck up to the house
- baths in the kitchen in the winter - taking turns and mother and I had our own water :-)
- hanging the wash in the house in the winter-
- hanging our stockings the night before Christmas and we always found an orange in them
- candy canes lasting all Christmas week- one lick at a time
- my 3 calves I trained for our 4H club
- going to the fair and on the merry-go-round
- riding in the back of the truck from one field to the next
- hauling water to the garden in the summer- we filled every available container and daddy drove us out to the garden where we watered by hand
- funerals as kids always went too
- no baby sitters- if need be in emergencies we stayed with the neighbors
- going across the river on the ferry- which was run by human and not machine- it was always so much fun
- drinking milk straight from the cow and eating eggs right from the chicken
- going to town at Christmas time and spending the dollar daddy gave me and buying gifts for 5 people with it - :-) at the 5 and dime store-
- the end of the 100 memories but not the end of my memories :-)
- later I will use some of these and tell the stories that go with them
Huggles me, Marilyn Christine
(Meme16)
Do not run ahead of the Lord, but walk with Him, pray for His guidance
and listen to His answers. Lord, let me put Your will first in my life.
(Meme16)
Do not run ahead of the Lord, but walk with Him, pray for His guidance
and listen to His answers. Lord, let me put Your will first in my life.
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