My grandmother died in 2005. She did not own a computer. I think she could have mastered some computer skills, but she had plenty of interests and activities and friends to keep her engaged in the world. She wrote things down, not fictional stories but events of her life, both past and present. After she died, I was given the honor of keeping some of her writings. I thought starting a blog with them might be fun. I hope readers will find it enjoyable. Thanks for stopping by.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The cold shoulder?
June 19, 1932 - Went to Harry Kahler's today for his birthday (all of us, including Grussmother and Grussfather). Loretta, Martha, and Florence gave me the brr! shoulder. Didn't bother me. Wallace K. and his girl, Gertrude Lueber, and Art Green and Veronica Goeres were down from Osmond. I stayed with them. In the p.m. we drove to Winside and Wayne. Helen Kilmer's birthday.
June 20, 1932 - Worked some more on my rug today. Cloudy this a.m. so we didn't wash. Cleared up in p.m. Ray went out to Ola's. We shook down two dishpans full of mulberries this evening. Dora and George came from Butte Sat. and are going back tomorrow. Louis Brogren birthday.
June 21, 1932 - We canned 13 quarts of mulberry sauce and 2 pints of mulberry jam today. Clara was here this p.m. Mom did some sewing for her. Arnold came tonite. We went for a little ride east of town and then came back and talked.
Here we have one of Grandma's few mentions of how she's feeling/thinking as opposed to just reporting on her comings and goings. Spoiler alert - with my next post, we will see that at least Florence and Grandma made up pretty quickly.
Ah, mulberries! I remember helping hold the sheet while the mulberry tree was shook. I do not recall Grandma ever canning any mulberry sauce or jam. I think I would have enjoyed both.
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I remember mulberry sauce. Sometimes Grandma would put rhubarb in the sauce to give it a little zip. I liked it better that way.
ReplyDeleteWallace and Gertrude (Luebbers) Kahler were my grandparents, both gone now. I enjoyed reading about their time spent with family.
ReplyDeleteDarrell Kahler
David City, NE
I am glad you found the post!
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