Archive for 2007
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January 1, 1874; Clarksville Star, Clarksville, Iowa
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Just in case some of you need ideas for your New Year’s preparations:
Coffee Socials
Coffee socials in Pleasant Valley are quite numerous with the German people. They are generally commenced about the middle of the afternoon and kept up until the coffee is all drank, which depends on the number of kegs on hand and the [...]
Surprised
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Juanita asked how my kids had been sneaky, and so I thought I’d tell the whole thing in a separate post. When I wrote that I only meant it in very limited sense. Sam had signed on as me to announce that today was my birthday (note the use of “mama” in his part [...]
Today…
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Is Mama’s birthday.
Some kids are so sneaky.:-) But I have to add that this is my 50th birthday, so it’s rather special.
“Human Beings are Not Amphibious”
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007This is an article I found on microfilm of the newspaper, The Clarksville Star, published in Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa. This comes from the April 5, 1872 edition.
Regular bathing, so far as the people of this country are concerned, is certainly a habit of quite modern adoption. The fathers and mothers, and [...]
Gingerbread Houses
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Yesterday was Abbie’s 16th birthday. She wanted to make gingerbread houses. I found several recipes for the gingerbread and used the one I found at about.com. I neglected to notice the LONG baking time, so it took me all day to bake enough for everyone. Sam declined to participate. The kids finished putting them [...]
Christmas Baking
Saturday, December 15th, 2007I always found that baking Christmas goodies with little kids to be…well a little trying. Now that the kids are older it’s more fun and relaxing.
“We have seen his star.”
Winter Reading Challenge
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Kathleen is organizing The Winter Reading Challenge. I haven’t done this the last couple of times, and I can’t even remember if I did very well the time or two I did participate. For me, the problem isn’t the reading, but staying on track and prioritizing that reading. So this may help me do that. [...]
Family History and Memorial Day
Thursday, December 6th, 2007This really would be a better post for Memorial Day, but since that’s a long while away, I’m going to go ahead and post it. The following excerpt comes from a book called Years Ago by Rudolf Priepke. Mr. Priepke was an unofficial town historian of Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa, an area in which [...]
Amateur
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I’m glad I wrote that I was only “in” the first chapter in my previous post. Further on in the chapter:
This active use of time is of course for pleasure; its impulse is love. Everybody used to know this when the words amateur and dilettante were taken in their original meanings of “lover” and “seeker [...]