Soapweed
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Thursday, February 29, 1968 Journal (Extra Leap Year Day)
I got up at 6:00 and had breakfast. The old adage is sure wrong that says: "A job well done needs not be done again." I've done a good job of getting in the calves the last couple of mornings, but it still needs to be done again. I saddled Jig (who is acting a lot better of late) and brought them in. I unsaddled her and turned her out due to a shortage of hay in the barn. I then went on up to the house and got ready for school.
Mr. Phipps introduced us to another song in chorus. It has something to do with the animals getting on the ark, but I can't think of the name of it.
The mighty ten of the sophomore class has just been changed to eleven. A girl, Wanda Something-other, moved to town. She only takes Geography and English with us, and is with the freshmen the rest of the time.
We worked on Lesson 94 in Typing. Also we are working on a six-page manuscript over about five lessons—we do a little each day.
Mr. Nelson handed out map exercises in Geography. He showed a map slide with the magnifying projector and kind of got us familiar with how the test would be given.
Mr. Card gave us a short assignment in Geometry and let us have the period to work, so we kind of lucked out on that account.
In Biology, Mr. Krotz let us work on projects. I drew out kind of the way mine will be displayed.
For dinner we had mashed potatoes, "gravy-train," spinach, cornbread, and a cherry dessert. This isn't my favorite dish but guess it is good enough. Over the noon hour, we did things a little different. Ken, John, and I went out to the city dump and scrounged around for would-be antiques. My finds included an old scoop shovel handle, a gallon jug, and a melted bottle. John did okay, and found a deal that makes shoestring potatoes.
We were promised a test for some time next week in Literature. We got to watch a movie about the Indianapolis 500 in Driver's Ed. I read the rest of the afternoon.
When we got home, I changed clothes and had a couple pieces of cake before going outside. Dad and Lloyd had just finished trimming a bull's feet. I took the four-wheeler [pickup] out and brought in the horses. I got Sassy, Dad—Penney, and Lloyd—Hawk Eye. We rounded up the cows in the meadow and sorted out 23 heavies. Lloyd moved the heifers from the East Meadow into the pasture east of the branding corral, and we put the main bunch of cows in where the heifers had been. Dad told about going over to the Weber ranch this morning to take care of their outfit while Webers were in Omaha, with Greg in the hospital.
I caught Jig and left her in for tomorrow. We did chores and came in to supper.
I got up at 6:00 and had breakfast. The old adage is sure wrong that says: "A job well done needs not be done again." I've done a good job of getting in the calves the last couple of mornings, but it still needs to be done again. I saddled Jig (who is acting a lot better of late) and brought them in. I unsaddled her and turned her out due to a shortage of hay in the barn. I then went on up to the house and got ready for school.
Mr. Phipps introduced us to another song in chorus. It has something to do with the animals getting on the ark, but I can't think of the name of it.
The mighty ten of the sophomore class has just been changed to eleven. A girl, Wanda Something-other, moved to town. She only takes Geography and English with us, and is with the freshmen the rest of the time.
We worked on Lesson 94 in Typing. Also we are working on a six-page manuscript over about five lessons—we do a little each day.
Mr. Nelson handed out map exercises in Geography. He showed a map slide with the magnifying projector and kind of got us familiar with how the test would be given.
Mr. Card gave us a short assignment in Geometry and let us have the period to work, so we kind of lucked out on that account.
In Biology, Mr. Krotz let us work on projects. I drew out kind of the way mine will be displayed.
For dinner we had mashed potatoes, "gravy-train," spinach, cornbread, and a cherry dessert. This isn't my favorite dish but guess it is good enough. Over the noon hour, we did things a little different. Ken, John, and I went out to the city dump and scrounged around for would-be antiques. My finds included an old scoop shovel handle, a gallon jug, and a melted bottle. John did okay, and found a deal that makes shoestring potatoes.
We were promised a test for some time next week in Literature. We got to watch a movie about the Indianapolis 500 in Driver's Ed. I read the rest of the afternoon.
When we got home, I changed clothes and had a couple pieces of cake before going outside. Dad and Lloyd had just finished trimming a bull's feet. I took the four-wheeler [pickup] out and brought in the horses. I got Sassy, Dad—Penney, and Lloyd—Hawk Eye. We rounded up the cows in the meadow and sorted out 23 heavies. Lloyd moved the heifers from the East Meadow into the pasture east of the branding corral, and we put the main bunch of cows in where the heifers had been. Dad told about going over to the Weber ranch this morning to take care of their outfit while Webers were in Omaha, with Greg in the hospital.
I caught Jig and left her in for tomorrow. We did chores and came in to supper.