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Summer 2023 A BLESSING FROM GOD:This week, our two daughters decided to clean out their homes and wanted to combine their things, some of mine, and have an impromptu yard sale. Funny thing about these sales, going to them is always so much fun, and if by chance we stumble on to some quaint little…
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August 2024 A Gravetokker- is someone who takes it upon themselves to scrub and clean headstones, especially when its people whose stories they are telling or researching. They do it for free, and for the preservation of the stone and all its history. As a genealogist, and history buff from way back, I get excited…
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July 2016 THE CLAW FOOT BATH TUB It all began at a yard sale FOURTEEN YEARS AGO . My dearest friend Burton (37 years my senior) had driven up here to my farm from South Bend, IN to spend the day with me. We were going to take picture of creeks, trees, old buildings, that was…
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March 2013 All the years growing up on the family farm with my three brothers, I was second in command. My much older brother, Stan (by 14 months) , relinquished his title of oldest to me whenever it came to house cleaning or babysitting the younger brothers. There fore I assumed the role of first born and from…
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April 2016 These photos were taken in December 2015. My Great Aunt Carole was helping make blankets and pillows for all 7 of my granddaughters. We made them wooden cradles out of solid cherry , so she and my Mom sat in their home and made the blankets and sheets and matching pillows . I write…
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April 2022 Many years ago, around 1999, when our children were still young and attending school, we began to host exchange students from various countries. As time passed, over fourteen different students stayed in our home. Some we chose and some were dropped off here when the house they were staying in wasn’t working out…
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Written March 2024 CIRCA – 1942 Recently, my old Gehl 95 feed grinder literally fell apart. This grinder was in less than poor shape when we were forced to buy it, four years ago after a barn fire here on our farmstead that destroyed our four bay barn, all of our tractors, hay equipment, corn…
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Mom, August 28, 2021 – Dad September 01, 2023 This is a photo of my in laws that was taken near their 25th wedding anniversary, in November 1986. I met them when I was just barely 17. I worked for the Tri-County Head Start program as a work release through school. Janice was a cake…
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March 2017 ITs just an ordinary table. It’s oak, its solid, and it holds more memories, more words, more pictures that a human brain or even a computer could recall if you wanted it to. There are folks that have gone on to Heaven now, but they once sat at our table. They were once a part…
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March 2016 According to the Bible, there are close to 124 miracles mentioned throughout its pages—three dozen just within the four gospels.Joey Martin-Feek is a beautiful, vibrant daughter of God who is in desperate need of a miracle. In fact, all around the world, there are folks in desperate need of a miracle. God is…
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