Our oldest Grandson Noah is 26 years old today! They grow up so fast!
Back in October of 2000 he was 17 months old.
Happy Birthday Noah, we hope you have the best day/year ever!
Love you always and forever!
Grandma
My desk is full of projects. I brought a number of things from upstairs to my desk to be worked on. I am adding old photos every day to the facebook site for my Maternal Grandparents...I hope to finish that up soon. There is a gathering this summer for that part of the family. I went down a couple of rabbit holes adding photos to Find A Grave...and I know that there are more photos I could add...and oh yes a pile of obituaries to scan.
One by one the projects will be dealt with and put in the proper place. I have my Great Grandmothers funeral book...she died in 1968. Also my Maternal Grandparents funeral books...if my siblings don't want them ...then maybe I will take them to the gathering and give them to my cousins to fight over...ha!
More yarn projects have been added to my desk since I took the photo. Far Guy winds my yarn into balls for me as he watches music videos.
For a break I am Spring cleaning the drawers in the kitchen...there are 17 drawers and 8 are done. Isn't is funny or not how weird stuff is saved...especially in the one kitchen junk drawer.
Our weather is cool and a bit dreary. The high on Friday was 43 F or 7 C eh.
This week our company was friends Joel and Jackie and their dog Buddy, my other baby brother and she who sees robins first.
Far Guy got the old car Tilly started up as next Monday she has an appointment for a new boot. (It is something that covers the drive train ...I think...I know it is something important that has been bugging Far Guy.)
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I searched my really old photos looking for a wintery photo.
1962 photo of my brothers. A football to throw and a wagon to push. Country kids had to make their own fun.
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I am working on the Video for my Mother's funeral at the end of the week. I am waiting on a few photos and then maybe I can call it done. I have a limit of about 100 photos.
Had lunch yesterday with Far Guy and my other baby brother and she who sees robins first...they were on their way back from Western North Dakota.
Today I will work on the photo boards for the funeral, I picked up possibly the last batch of photos at Walmart yesterday.
I did some laundry and finished a book.
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Saturday was a catch all day, I had a Hobby Lobby list, taxes to get together so they are ready to go to the accountant and being the chief cook and a painters assistant rounded out the day. I made a Gluten Free Apple Pancake that you put in the oven.
Sunday we plan to go visit my Mom in the Nursing Home. She is struggling with back pain.
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My other baby brother took a look at Ranger Blue and figured out what the problem was. A ground wire that was not installed properly at the factory. He got the wire held down with a nut and it is good to go. Many thanks to my other baby brother!
We went for a short ride to charge up the battery.
Far Guy and I have really missed our Ranger rides.
It was just past sunset when we went for a ride.
The weather was beautiful yesterday, earlier in the day we delivered some old photos to some of my cousins and some Christmas ornaments. It was 49 F or 10 C eh and very windy late in the afternoon. Nice weather for mid November!
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I am still wading through old photos. I am stuck in the 1950's.
Deer Hunting. My Dad and his brothers are in the yard after the hunt. Most likely (Uncle Ervin and Uncle Adolf)
Help arrives...
Happy to be included.
Never mind that I had a dish towel tied around my head...I must have been throwing winter hats off...and my Mother found a way to keep my ears covered.
Photo taken at the farm where I grew up...and the year...most likely 1953 or 1954.
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I tried to begin my Mother's family old photo project. I was all set upstairs. I wanted to keep the mess upstairs! After several afternoons working with Far Guys Laptop I decided to move downstairs. My Windows 10 brain and Mac brain were fighting!! Talk about frustration! I bought a new Canon printer/scanner for the project. I had to hard wire it to the laptop. When I brought it downstairs it would not work wireless to my Mac so I had to use a freaking cord too...and give up space at my computer station. I am going to use the piece of junk for this project and then sell the darn thing. The only thing that is saving it at the moment is that it will batch scan and automatically detect photos (mostly).
So for now photos go downstairs in a pretty container they are scanned and sorted to family name and then they go back upstairs into manila envelopes. Uffda.
My Great Grandmother Hadwig (Hattie) she was a twin, her twins name was Elsie. Somewhere I have a photo of them that appeared in the newspaper when they were in the same Nursing Home.
I got the Facebook Group Family page up and running yesterday. Mission partly accomplished. Now to scan and scan some more!
The outside Fall Project list is complete, yesterday my other baby brother and his crew showed up and new plastic was put on the greenhouse/woodshop! We are so thankful to have that done before it snows!
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I have two totes of old photographs to scan. The photos belong to my parents. I finally got my new printer /scanner to talk to Far Guy's lap top and got it all set up. It is upstairs so I can work on it when I get a chance and leave everything out.
My Mom had some photos stuffed inside manila envelopes, I will double check them and scan if necessary...eventually all the folder type wedding, graduation, school and baby photos should be returned to family.
I started a facebook page for my Dad's family and many have enjoyed the photos I shared there and I will do the same thing for my Mom's family...soon...it all takes time!
I ordered a few special photo labeling pencils so I can mark the backs of some of the photos with the who, where and when if possible. There are a wide variety of pencils out there that can be used. Creative Memories is where I purchased mine.
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I believe the barn was built in the late 1930's or early 1940s by the Lemon family ( a brother to Far Guys maternal Grandmother (Clara Almeada) lived there his name was Loren Lemon and his wife was Florence Graham Lemon.
My parents purchased the farm in the spring of 1952 when my Dad returned from Korea.
Me and the barn in about 1953 or 1954.
Ten years later in 1964.
Happy Mother's Day!
Yesterday we went to town to give Mom her card and package, they were emptying six very heavy bags of mulch...Dad took a tumble and said he saw stars....we helped them finish up with the mulch and got Dad into the house. He seemed ok....we had coffee and cake...my sister and her husband were there when we left.
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My Aunt Kay died a week ago she was 76 years old. The funeral was yesterday. My Mother is fighting a bad cold, she sent my Father out to go to the funeral with us. My other baby brother and she who sees robin’s first went too. Far Guy stayed home…good thing too as the perfumy smell of cleaning products assaulted you as soon as you opened the door of the church.
My Aunt Kay was married to my Uncle Clarence, Butch was his nickname. They raised four children together and then divorced. I had not seen my cousins in about 24 years. It was good to see them at the funeral…now they are in their 50’s except for Holly who is going to be 48 she was born on our wedding day back in 1969.
My Aunt Kay was a very kind woman, she was a good mother and grandmother. I have many good memories of her when I was growing up. I saw her and my uncle just about every week at my grandparents for Sunday dinner. Their place on Little Floyd Lake where they raised chinchillas. The new home they built together that had a double fireplace was beautiful. We butchered chickens one summer out on a picnic table in the yard. My Dad worked at the “shop” there and we would visit him there in the spring. When Far Guy and I picked out Mom and Dad’s White German Shepard puppy in Ada Minnesota…we took the pup as far as Uncle Butch and Aunt Kay’s place so my parents could pick her up.
The Funeral Sermon was short and sweet and to the point. Ashes to ashes dust to dust. Laugh and enjoy your time here on earth whatever troubles you encounter won’t matter in heaven. Death has lost it’s sting because Jesus died on the cross.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I took a photo inside the church so my Mother could see all the flowers.
After the afternoon service we joined with the family for coffee and bars…all kinds mainly chocolate!
I took some photos of my Uncle and Aunt’s wedding album…they got married in October of 1960.
My baby brother was the ring bearer.
The parents looking at the ring. Those are my grandparents on the right. Grandma wore gloves and grandpa had some dark hair.
The wedding cake photo with a bunch of little girls looking on. One is me, I am the tallest, my Aunt Karen is next to me…down in front the little gal with the great expression on her face might be relatives from the other side of the family or it might be cousins La Rae, Vickie or Diane.
From weddings to the grave…my Uncle Butch died in 1993 and now Aunt Kay in 2017.
I have been working on some old photos, I found a whole packet of photos that needed to be sorted and marked with the year and the complete names. Also found some more stuff for the grands memory binders.
Found quite a few old graduation photos of Far Guy so the grands will each get one of those too.
Then I needed a small all day project. My other baby brother asked for a copy of the family trees I have been working on. I decided to work another leg or an arm…
Lucked out and found an old obit for my GG Grandmother Christina who died on June 25 1918. Obituaries are a wealth of information…if it is correct. So off I went to verify information …there were two typos in the obit (transcribers make errors too).
Christina married name Kuhn maiden name unknown was born Feb 5 1847 in Germany…wish I knew where?? Her husband must have been Fritz Kuhn born Dec 20 1843 and died April 13 1910 they are buried next to each other... and I found Census Records for them. They had at least 8 children in Germany: Robert, Otto, William, Albert, Hadwig, Elsie, Frank and a unknown. They immigrated in1884 with children 17 years - 2 years old. That must have been some trip. Lena was born in Kansas in 1885. (Hadwig and Elsie were twins…many times twins did not live the births were difficult because usually one twin was breech…many times the babies and the Mothers all died.)
Well anyways I figured out where most of the children are or were. Bits and pieces fit together nicely for me…a name is just a name but I have some old photos of these people that my Mother has shared with me. Those old photos are all marked with names.
But I still have a mystery to solve:
A number of years ago my Mother gave me two CDV albums. Mom cannot remember who they came from…just from family. One is from Germany and the other is clearly from the Glanders because Grandma Anderson is in that album and possibly even my Grandmother. I will scan the photos and enlarge them so my Mother can look at them.
These two gals look like my Aunt Skip and my cousin Linda…distant relatives sometimes have the same features.
I believe that Christina may have kept the other album. She was from Germany. Hadwig and Elsie were born in either Wartenberg or Stuttgart depending on what reference you believe. Those towns are 475 miles from Bremen and Bremerhaven (Bremen Harbour) where most of these photos were taken. Did Christina live in Bremen before she was married? She was married sometime before 1870..possibly 1869 (first baby born in 1870)
I wish I had a photo of her.
The first photo in the album…usually the album owner puts their photo in the first page. Could this be Christina? I am not certain we will ever know.
There are many cousin look alikes in this album
These two look like Cousins Deb and Danny…most certainly relatives.
There are four branches that this last album could come from.
Falnes…they were from Norway. Highly unlikely that she would have an album photographed in Germany.
Glander…German born but highly unlikely….but still a possibility. GG Grandpa Johann must have had a wife…I have no idea what her name was. He was born in 1827 and that makes his wife a tad old to have CDV’s from 1860-1870.
Drewes…The name was given to a young man either he was orphaned or he was not wanted by his family. His name was Christian Hyer or Higher before he took the Drewes name at his confirmation in 1884 in Wolcottsville NY. Not likely that he had a photo album. Was he really German? Who knows.
Kuhn…Christina born in Germany in 1847…the most plausible conclusion.
It will probably remain a mystery. I will put a note in each album with my thoughts.
My brain is mush after a day of research, tomorrow I will transcrible all my notes into something readable. Please mark your old photos with whole names and the year…the four W’s is the best who, when, where and why.
I always wondered who was in this old photo. From reading the old farm diaries and from other old photos I finally have a really good guess. Sadly the diaries from the early part of 1917 are missing.
This is the old barn at the farm.
James X., Marvin (Far Guy’s Dad), Tracie, Francis, Mattie, Bill and Bryan. Mattie and Bill are the parents of Francis, he was an only child born in 1914 the same year as Marvin. Mattie was James X. sister and Bryan was their brother. Bryan worked at different farms in the Osage area in 1916 and 1917 ( perhaps longer than that). I always thought Bryan lived in Iowa…the diaries are proving some of those assumptions have been in error.
Mattie and Bill lived in Harrison County Iowa until 1939 when they moved to Tekamah.
So in 1917 they would visit Minnesota from Iowa. How would they travel? By train? No it looks like it was a road trip. What an adventure that must have been.
Francis and Marvin (right) cousins born in 1914. Francis in October and Marvin in August. From the smiles it looks like they were fast friends! These boys would become men who were friends their entire lives. Francis died in 1981 and Marvin in 1994.
I am slow in getting diary entries transcribed lately. It is a work in progress. Here is a peek into farm life in 1917.
July 1917
19 Thursday Sprayed potatoes finished hog fence, set post west of the barn. Gave Maurice Robinson music lesson
20 Friday Finished fence by barn, post holes in pasture fence, sawed posts
21 Saturday Set posts, hoed cabbage, plowed beans
