My Roots Run Deep
Stories From My Family History
A Visit Home for the 4th.
For the Fourth this year we decided to hang out at Oakwood. We are getting excited about moving home and had to head up and spend the holiday checking out all the fun things we could do. Living out in the country is totally different from living in a subdivision......
Father’s Day
I've said it before, it's tough when your father is in that in between land of suffering. You haven't lost your father - yet your father isn't really there. You can be with your father, but not share memories. What you really have is a physical shell of your...
Gardens, Strawberries, and Poison Ivy, oh My!
We've tried to make our own garden. - My favorite is strawberry plants. Some of our plants are wild strawberries and some are domestic. Strawberry Plants Growing up, we would go pick wild strawberries wherever we found them. I remember a few times even ending up...
Fields
Growing up we spent a lot of time in the fields. My dad farmed not only his own fields which he and my mother collected over time, but fields for my other relatives. When my parents first go married they lived in a mobile home in my aunt's yard. We lived there...
Kitchen Mistakes!
My mother didn't let me cook in the kitchen much, really not at all. Our schedule was pretty set also. Most of the time during the spring, summer, and fall was spent in the fields if not at school. Until my brother and I were old enough to drive on our own, we were...
Favorite Childhood Pets
Growing up, my parents had a lot of animals. My favorite pets were between a dog that was a golden retriever/Irish setter mix that my father had named after my cousin's mom and a cat. Dog We had a LOT of dogs. The mix that was my favorite was around for many years. ...
