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Good Morning.
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I am attempting to do something that I don't feel able to do, but I hope that with the help of Margaret my first cousin and others of our family we will make it. She is the one who gave me the picture. it is of course my grandfathers homestead built in the early 1900's on a guess of at least 400 acres. I will not be able to do this all in one day, as I have many interesting stories from my earliest days. So please bear with me and I will do my best to keep you smiling. As I glance over the picture just now I do see a few people that I remember very well. It is wonderful what the young mind keeps for over 90 years, but I am sure that some of it will be funny and interesting.
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I may not get very much in here this morning but one little thing that sticks in my mind from a child is my Grand Dad was a farmer he produced mostly wheat, and in the fall when he was threshing his wheat he would let us children move the straw away, at the end of the day he would hand each of us a shiny half of a dollar and we would run home as fast as we could and give it to our mother, we thought that we had done something great.
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Dad wants to recommend these two things below, they are things that we should never forget.
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"Time is so precious- do not waste it".
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" Begin the day with God."
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Dad wants to recommend these two things below, they are things that we should never forget.
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"Time is so precious- do not waste it".
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" Begin the day with God."
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I am going to have a cup of Sumatra x bold coffee right here and then go see Sara, Misty and Oreo at Sara's Dog Training blog Thank you Sara, you do take the best care or Misty and Oreo. DAD
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I hope that you can have patience with old Dad today remember he is not used to this kind of writing, but I will tell you that some funny things and a discussion of the picture will be here in the morning. And another thing I am not satisfied with the beginning of this journal, it is a little confusing, when someone comes in who knows what to do I hope to make it a little easier to get on the journal. DAD
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Shooting My Universe . Please look at this today.
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I am going to stop for a short rest and maybe another cup of coffee. But I am not done for the day, as new thoughts come to me I will get them on this journal, remember I am on the job all day.
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" Love everybody, even your enemies"
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I will be seeing you all through the day today.
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I have been thinking today of so many good things that happened to me when I was young, I will give you this and then I will have more tomorrow. Our Grandmother was so sweet she loved children and all children loved Grandma, she kept a large bowl of Molasses's Cookies in a bowl that we could reach and we knew that we were welcome. They were so good I can taste them now.
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And one more, in the picture you can see that the house is a two story house. I spent many nights with them and I slept upstairs by myself, it was cold but my grandmother almost smothered me with big feather beds that she had made herself. She had a flock of geese and if was fun for me watching her pluck the feathers. Oh what sweet memories from 90 years ago.
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BYE BYE DAD
