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This weekend Kat took me to her favorite u-pick orchard. She and I were heading home from shopping in town when she got a text from a friend; turned to me and asked, “Mom, would you like to pick some peaches on our way home? This is the first day they are open.” I nodded. I knew she’d been waiting...
In the evenings before heading to bed Grandpa prepares the coffee pot to make five cups of coffee in the morning: one cup for me and two cups each for him and Grandma. In the wee hours of the morning Grandma gets up; brews the coffee; drinks her two cups; pours the remaining three cups into Grandpa...
Grandma started making ginger snaps this morning before Grandpa and I got up. (She does her baking early in the day during the summer months so she’s not warming up the kitchen in the heat of the day.) Due to Grandpa and me it’s taken her two days to get the job done. She asked me three days ago to...
Grandma and I were preparing bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches for dinner when Grandpa came in. He took his place at the table like he does most evenings after working during the day around the place. This day had been more stressful than usual because the well ran dry and he’d spent all day...
Our oldest, Kat, brought me 10 lb. of cherries. She asked me if I wanted some tart cherries before she went to pick them; I asked how much do they cost; she said the farmer wanted a dollar a pound. I told her I’d give her two dollars a pound and she could pay for ten pounds of her own cherries for...
When Grandma Lydia was a young girl, her family lived on a farm. She had eleven siblings, six brothers, five older than she; and five sisters, two older and three younger. With that many folks in the family everyone had a job to do. During hay season Grandma’s (then a small girl) job was to pull...
I spent the morning helping Grandpa put a twenty-seven-foot truss beam together in the cramped shop (like everything that is useful, the shop is big, just not quite big enough for the next project) where Grandpa does his hide tanning. He has made room in his tanning spaces to accommodate building...
Beans are one of the nicest ways to eat protein. They provide fiber for the bowels, texture to the dish and are (usually) easy on the pocketbook. I came across this method of making three bean salad while rummaging through the fridge one day and I realized I had four open jars of dill pickles; one...
One early September morning in 1977, I hustled up three flights of stairs to the third floor of College Hall at Washington State University in Pullman, for my first pharmacy laboratory session. I carried my brand-new white lab coat, which was mandatory attire for this and all future lab sessions....
I like cornmeal mush. It was one of our favorite breakfasts growing up on the farm. I liked it best with a splash of cream from Grandma’s favorite milking short horn cow, Libby. That old cow…
We got her after Grandma’s sweet black cow got hit on the railroad across from the farm. Libby was ornery...
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