Soapweed
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My journal entry for Sunday, July 14, 1968
Today was Sunday, but you wouldn't really have known it. We got up at the usual early hour. Dad and I did chores before breakfast.
Dad went down to the Leach and Fuchser pastures to check. I stayed home to do some raking, but first I took a much-needed bath. [Why this wasn't done Saturday night instead, will never now be known.]
Sandra went along to the north meadow to bring back the pickup. We had to pull the tractor to get it started. Then I finished straight raking the north meadow, and did a patch of light hay on the northeast part of the home meadow. The rest of the morning was spent reading.
Mom and the girls went to church. Norton Long from Scottsbluff was the guest speaker. One of his qualities included being long-winded, I guess.
After a good dinner of chef salad, Dad called from the Leach Place and wanted me to bring down five gallons of diesel for fly rubbers. I took the car down, and took Dad a lunch. We doped a few rubbers and hauled salt to the cattle around the place. Then I saddled Hawk Eye and got in a newborn calf and cow. These we loaded on the pickup and took home. Also, we talked to a construction worker who is helping to put up the new ETV tower, to see if anyone wanted to rent the Leach house.
We came home, did chores, and the whole gang of us went to Uncle Stan's for supper. Decklyn Nelson's were there, and Lyle Nelson's came later. Ken and I looked at his diary notebooks. Then we played "pump pump pull-away." We got home at midnight.
Today was Sunday, but you wouldn't really have known it. We got up at the usual early hour. Dad and I did chores before breakfast.
Dad went down to the Leach and Fuchser pastures to check. I stayed home to do some raking, but first I took a much-needed bath. [Why this wasn't done Saturday night instead, will never now be known.]
Sandra went along to the north meadow to bring back the pickup. We had to pull the tractor to get it started. Then I finished straight raking the north meadow, and did a patch of light hay on the northeast part of the home meadow. The rest of the morning was spent reading.
Mom and the girls went to church. Norton Long from Scottsbluff was the guest speaker. One of his qualities included being long-winded, I guess.
After a good dinner of chef salad, Dad called from the Leach Place and wanted me to bring down five gallons of diesel for fly rubbers. I took the car down, and took Dad a lunch. We doped a few rubbers and hauled salt to the cattle around the place. Then I saddled Hawk Eye and got in a newborn calf and cow. These we loaded on the pickup and took home. Also, we talked to a construction worker who is helping to put up the new ETV tower, to see if anyone wanted to rent the Leach house.
We came home, did chores, and the whole gang of us went to Uncle Stan's for supper. Decklyn Nelson's were there, and Lyle Nelson's came later. Ken and I looked at his diary notebooks. Then we played "pump pump pull-away." We got home at midnight.