Good Morning, Last week I left you our family had went through a rough period in our lives and came out stronger. I am trying to think how to explain it to you. I remember when I was a child and our family had went to the Great Smokey Mountains. We came to a tunnel that went through the mountains. The first tunnel was short. You could see the daylight through the end. Then we came to one that you could tell was long. We entered it and it was dark. It had a sign that said turn on lights. Daddy turned the car ...
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I was just over at Edge of Insanity where Samantha talks about her wonderful cute boys quit a bit and it occurred to me that I have not really taken the time to talk about my girly girls. So, here it goes, as I take in a long breath. I say they are like Peas and Carrots cause I just love Forrest. Yet, they are soooo very different. How in the heck can these two precious girls be my daughters. I have to shake my head in disbelief. Did I act this way growing up? Heck no, I never did that. Just ask my ...
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Good Afternoon, I am sorry it is taking so long to post today, but I have had a lot of trouble uploading my photos. I am going to back up to 1978 because a couple of important things happened. One thing is this Case tractor. This tractor has been with us through a lot of garden plantings and farm work for the last 30 years. Billy painted it a reddish orange soon after we bought it. Here it is today, I just took this picture this morning and Billy still uses it on the farm. Another important thing was this 1953 International truck we ...
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Young Dreamers Chapter 4-The New Business Good Morning, Last week I left you in 1984. We had finally moved in our 1st house. It had taken over 3 years in the making, but we made it. All four of us thought we were in hog heaven. Just as soon as we settled in good, someone told Billy about a piece of property for sale on the main state highway. It is a little over 2 acres and he is thinking about putting a truck painting business there. We look at the land, talk about and talk about it. I tell him he needs to ...
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Good Morning, Young Dreamers Chapter Seven Finishing inside and outside After living in the little trailer for over a year and another winter was in full blast, we moved into the unfinished new house. For the first time in our lives we had store bought heat. Two electric heat pumps heated the house plus we had a wood heater(of course) in the living room and moved the wood heater from the trailer to the basement. When we moved in it still looked something like this. We started at the very top of the house and finished a room at a time. Went on the ...
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