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Category Archives: Life on a Colorado Farm
Piano Lessons and Daily Practice
Linki is taking piano lessons, something she has wanted to do for a long time. Since we have the piano and their house isn’t big enough for the piano she rides the bus here, practices and then after a snack she goes home.
After I took this photo and saw all the toys you would think the kids live here.
They don’t, but Terry and I are really lucky that they live just across the field from us.
Linda
Santa Claus
This little Santa Claus is many, many years old. It has been in the family since the early 1920’s, at least.
It is one of our most favorite things, when I bring out the Christmas decorations. Although, I do have others, like a tiny french horn that really plays and a glass clown.
What is your favorite Christmas decoration?
Linda
Birds
For some reason these Herons/Crane (I don’t know for sure which) have taken over our farm…I’m not complaining. But I would like to have both types land here. It seems where the Herons/Cranes are the Geese don’t land, so somehow in the world of birds the word has gone out…No Geese Allowed. We sometimes have hundreds and hundreds of these lovely birds.
Linda
Wedding Trip
We went to Las Vegas, Nevada to see Terry’s niece married this weekend. She and her (now) husband were in a Wedding/Marathon on Sunday evening. There were 44,000 people in the marathon, with 150 couples being married.
What happened is after running two miles those who were going to be married stopped at a certain spot, a preacher did a three minute ceremony, they then ran on.
It was pretty crowded for me to be able to get a good photo of the couple, but I tried. Her parents were lots closer and I’m sure they got good photos.
All the brides were dressed in some form of bridal wear and the grooms wore the top half of a tux. Beverly wore an all white running outfit. She was cute as cute could be.
As soon as the couple said ‘I do’ the Mirage set off thier volcano adding even more drama to the event.
Afterwards, and before they could start running again, Pete and Beverly were interviewed on TV for being one of the couples at this most unusual wedding experience.
Congratulations, Beverly and Pete! Thank you for inviting us!
Terry and Linda
Dear Santa Claus
Dear Santa Claus,
I am eight years old this year…I will be nine next month. I want to thank you for my wonderful walking doll, I named her Angela, she is a beautiful as an angel. I have taken very good care of her and I sleep with her every night.
If you have time would you bring me a furry foot rug for my room? My Momma has painted it a really nice color. When we were at J. C. Penney’s I saw a really nice rug shaped like a foot. If you can bring me that rug I would put it beside my bed so my feet will feel it the first thing every morning.
By the way there are lots of kids that say you are not real. But I think you are. My grandma says you are magic and as long as we believe in magic, magic is real.
Have a nice night traveling. I hope you don’t have bad weather.
Linda
Wordless Wednesday— My Beautiful Walking Doll, Angela
Linda
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The kids made it home! My critter sitting is done until they go back to visit the Grandparents in Nebraska or Kelly’s brother in Kansas. That won’t be for awhile now as trips like that have to fit into school breaks.
Our indoor cat was very interested in Hermie the guinea pig, Snowball the bunny wasn’t nearly as interesting. Probably because the rabbit couldn’t see the cat and the cat couldn’t see the rabbit.
The trap lines are busy….mice can destroy feed grains, cars and trucks, and anything else thier sharpe little teeth can get into, they also build nests in the hay, which is not good. Not good at all.
Terry is working on the corn combine….blowing out the filters, plus other job of maintentance.
So not much happening here, but the same old stuff.
Oh…and the letter to Santa was my letter, that Momma saved. I found it in her cedar chest after her death. I thought it would be something fun to share.
Linda
Dear Santa Claus
Dear Santa Claus,
My mother is helping me write this as I am 5 years old and can’t spell very good yet. I saw you at the Delta Thanksgiving Parade, but I was too scared to talk to you. I stood in line a long time, but when it was almost my turn I started to cry so Momma said I could get out of line and write you instead.
I would really like a Walking Doll, Santa, if you have one in your work house. I promise not to put it in the bath tub with me like I did my Sally baby doll. I now know that water will not be good for my dolls.
My brother is just now three and he wants a yellow teddy bear with brown pants that we saw at Hesteds. He cried a long time after he saw it and Momma said we didn’t have enough money for it, but he could ask Santa for it if he wanted too.
I don’t know what he is going to ask for, but Momma said she would write the letter for him also. He wasn’t afraid, but he had to get out of line with me as I just couldn’t stand in the line anymore.
Momma said we will leave you some cookies and milk by the Christmas tree. Oh, yes, and we don’t have a fire place. We do have a warm morning heater, but that would be too hot to come down and the chimney is really small. Daddy said we could leave the front door open and you can just come on in.
Thank you, Santa! And tell Mrs. Claus Hello from me and my brother.
Linda
November 28, 1954
Sunday Morning
It cold, calm and clear here. We woke up to 8 degrees, but it is warming up. I think it was 20 when I came up here to post.
I’m not surprised at the cold…I saw a Sun Dog Saturday morning.
Most of the corn is about harvested. The fields that are left are having that high moisture trouble we had last year. Its a type of corn, of which we are not ever going to plant again…I can assure you.
I’ve been critter sitting….the kids have been gone for several days so the little cage animals have been living with us, Hank/Puff has been living with Shannon, and I go down and take care of the cats and the goats.
Terry is working on the grain truck…he got the tailgate fixed from when the bolt came out.
We are being over-run with mice so we have a huge trap line going in the barns. Ugh. Our two cats and the dogs work at it, but there are just too many.
Anyway, have a nice Sunday!
Linda
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