Living Family Archive

out west

Stories set here

Lessons from Daddy’s Shed and GardenDelores spent hours with her inventive father in his shed, where he named her Sputnik and improved tools and Saturday auction finds. His demanding plowshare work at John Deere was followed by meticulous gardening. The children helped harvest and sold polished apples and tomatoes at Sam’s Market, keeping the proceeds. Delores remembers shelling homegrown popcorn and picking walnut meats with him, his humorous nose-straightening pose, his unusual favorite foods, and the elk he brought home from a western hunting trip that her mother refused to use.

Events here

vacation
A cherished western hunting trip
Floyd went deer hunting, shot an elk, brought it home, and had it dressed out. Ethel would have nothing to do with it; Delores never knew what happened to the meat.

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