Twenty Years in Missouri
Monthly Archives: February 2015
A salute to one of our veterans
February 27 – I have mentioned in other blogs about our good friends Clyde and Nan, but there’s always something new. It’s just a real pleasure to sit down with them in their living room and just plain sit and … Continue reading
Pranking the granddaughter
February 26 – Has been a nice looking day but pretty chilly and the wind is entirely unnecessary. Have I mentioned before that we have daffodils sending up green spears by the front porch entryway? Yesterday I planted about five … Continue reading
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From My Childhood – Home-made dreams
February 26 – As I have said before, Ma was a good cook. I can still smell the crusty raw-fried potatoes sizzling in the pan. I can see the chewy white sauerkraut in the huge white crock, with the plate … Continue reading
A warm day in February
February 25 – Well today was really tops in my estimation! After all, when February has not yet come to a close, and it isn’t hard to remember all of the cold temperatures of the month thus far, a day … Continue reading
African Tales – Feline frolics
February 24 – On one of our many transfers, our family moved to Rusangu, furnishings and all, in a mission truck. On that journey, our two cats somehow got out of their cage and one must have jumped overboard and … Continue reading
From My Childhood – Wild Strawberries
February 23 – Along with the cooking and baking, Ma really put her hands to work during the canning season. During early summer she would walk up to the Blackwoods’ land that had lain idle for a long time. There … Continue reading
Oh no, more snow
February 21 – As of Friday morning, we had received a five-inch snowfall, just about the same number of total inches as had fallen through all of the winter this far! No, I didn’t throw in those figures because I … Continue reading
The Fairchilds go to town-o
February 20 – Because the thermometer announced that it was zero when I got up yesterday morning, Dale announced (from the warm bed) that he thought it would be better to go into town later than we usually do. So … Continue reading
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From My Childhood – Dumplings
February 19 – In the late summer when the shiny red-black dewberries beckoned willing (and sometimes unwilling) hands to pick bucketsful of them, Ma made her specialty, blackberry dumplings. She would set the dewberries or blackberries to boil with sugar … Continue reading
African Tales – Not quite what Mom expected
February 18 – Living in the country of Southern Rhodesia was interesting for those who enjoyed wildlife in many varieties. Back in the mid-1940’s my missionary parents were living on a mission station in a house that provided quite free … Continue reading
Chris 'n' Dale 