My Roots Run Deep
Stories From My Family History
Building on a Shoestring
We are getting ready to move home. The plan had been to build in another year and a half, but we are looking at going ahead and moving a year early. I had been looking at what we wanted to do for a while, pricing houses and looking at options. To retire, we want...
Sledding
Time to go sledding! It finally snowed here! Time to go sledding. Growing up we had a lot more snow than we have here in Kentucky. I remember playing on snow mobiles, riding on the river, going on trips through the woods from house to house. Friends would show up...
The Illk Family
The house I grew up in after 2nd grade was built by Abraham Illk. Abraham Illk was born in Württemberg, Germany in 1834 and married Catherine Voth and had 8 children. He passed away on 1916 in Vermilion, Illinois, USA. The stories I've heard tell that Catherine...
Mice, fire, syrup and the past
The holidays are always a time to get together and tell stories about the past. Syrup My oldest drove in from VT (bringing syrup for everyone) and that spurred stories about my mother making syrup from our trees - in our yard - in Illinois. She would collect the sap...
50th – not a funny story though I try….
Yep, it was just my 50th.... I have to say it was a lot more disappointing than I expected. I actually love birthdays. I try to plan them out for the boys.... Once for my husbands 40th I invited people for a surprise (even my grandmother was there!) and then had a...
In the Pond
Some of the first things we really noticed about my father as he developed dementia was his lapses in judgement. With a farm this resulted in more broken equipment... A wagon accidently pushed into a pond. The oil pan cover on a bulldozer being forgotten. We even...