Soapweed
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My journal entry for Thursday, May 30, 1968
Today was Memorial Day, so we kicked the hired men loose and took it easy. Dad and I arose at 6:30, and did chores before breakfast. I fed the bulls, and he tied up the cows.
Sandra and I cleaned out the car. We washed it and got into a water fight in the process. The rest of the outfit cleaned house.
We went to Gordon and decorated graves. Uncle Stan's, Grandma, and we had a picnic in the park. For entertainment, we watched a kid fall off the teeter-totter, and watched drunks swaggering about.
All of us went to Rushville. Uncle Roland [Fairhead] is in the hospital, but we didn't get to see him. We stopped at his home and visited Aunt Vella, Kenny and Dorothy Walker, their daughter, Diane, and also Joe, Mary Beth, and Little Joe Kent. We had a good visit in the shade of the house.
We stopped in Gordon to pick up the flowers at the cemetery, and then went to the Ideal Super Market. Mrs. Andy Anderson had her pictures from our cattle drive back, so the whole tribe of us went there to look at both movies and slides. They turned out pretty good.
Everyone had a left-over picnic supper in Grandma's house. We kids played some football, and then Ken and I drew pictures for a while.
A little rain fell tonight with a lot of sharp lightning and thunder accompanying.
I got to do this diary while Dad and Sybil did chores.
We had a nice day that kind of broke the monotony of late.
Today was Memorial Day, so we kicked the hired men loose and took it easy. Dad and I arose at 6:30, and did chores before breakfast. I fed the bulls, and he tied up the cows.
Sandra and I cleaned out the car. We washed it and got into a water fight in the process. The rest of the outfit cleaned house.
We went to Gordon and decorated graves. Uncle Stan's, Grandma, and we had a picnic in the park. For entertainment, we watched a kid fall off the teeter-totter, and watched drunks swaggering about.
All of us went to Rushville. Uncle Roland [Fairhead] is in the hospital, but we didn't get to see him. We stopped at his home and visited Aunt Vella, Kenny and Dorothy Walker, their daughter, Diane, and also Joe, Mary Beth, and Little Joe Kent. We had a good visit in the shade of the house.
We stopped in Gordon to pick up the flowers at the cemetery, and then went to the Ideal Super Market. Mrs. Andy Anderson had her pictures from our cattle drive back, so the whole tribe of us went there to look at both movies and slides. They turned out pretty good.
Everyone had a left-over picnic supper in Grandma's house. We kids played some football, and then Ken and I drew pictures for a while.
A little rain fell tonight with a lot of sharp lightning and thunder accompanying.
I got to do this diary while Dad and Sybil did chores.
We had a nice day that kind of broke the monotony of late.