My fifty-seven-year-old son, Bret, and his wife, Chris, visited over the holiday, and during dinner, our conversation focused on Christmas memories. Bret recalled that when he was sixteen, he asked that, instead of buying him gifts, we buy him silver – yes, hard to believe, but “truth is often stranger than fiction.” That’s just theContinue reading “Chris’ Christmas Memories”
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Swamp Spruce
THE FIRST WEEK of December, Papa came home for several days before having to haul a house trailer to Florida, and while he was home, he proposed cutting some of the spruce trees that were growing in a swampy area north of the pasture. “I can haul them to Illinois and sell them for ChristmasContinue reading “Swamp Spruce”
As the Crow Flies 