Oh Happy Day! Melody may be the happiest bride I have known.
I admire the depth and breath of understanding Taobabe has of IChing….awesome! She recently posted an amazing explanation of “Marrying Maiden”.
https://taobabe.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/hexagram-54-the-marrying-maiden/
Office assistant “Eve” approves
Wash, dry, fold laundry,
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Eve approves blog post.
Time to turn out the lights.
Best wishes to our nation on this 45th inauguration day!
Millie Wissen
My neighbor for over 30 years…Millie Wissen passed away Sunday. She loved her family, friends, gardening and Christmas. Up until her husband Floyd passed away 13 years ago, she unloaded eight storage bins full of Christmas decorations each year and used all of them!
Millie had a gift for identifying birds by their songs. That requires spending a lot of time outdoors and paying attention. Sounds like a good New Year’s resolution for me to honor her memory.
Rest in Peace dear soul.
Tuesday’s post has a link to the history of this holiday tradition. Merry Christmas!
Monument Circle, Indianapolis 2016
Believe it or not! Our discussions at Thanksgiving dinner included advanced studies in meteorology, life support systems development at NASA, international financial research and….the interest a young family friend has taken in forging steel “sparked” by a TV documentary. His interest has evolved toward building a small mock furnace to melt iron/steel!
That’s when Dad said “I have one in the barn that was used to make and repair horse shoes.”
Behold!
1930s device to heat horseshoes
Click the “Nina Bay Farm” link in the header above for a brief 2016 photo journal.
So far, we have found Oliver as the manufacturer of the mower with a December 1936 date. It is very likely that the age of all of this equipment is within a few years of each other.
The horsepower for these implements would have come from mules. (Last year I observed the Amish of Lancaster Co., PA planting with teams of six horses.)
There are no offspring of mules on Nina Bay Farm. However, the descendants of burros relocated from the Southwest US could be trained to pull a farmer seated on the metal saddle seat of the rake, mower, disc or cultivator. Presently, the role of the burros is to defend cattle against coyotes.
Burro_power
Charles Frazee, USMC, WW2, Pacific Theater
Over 100 veterans representing all branches of service
4th graders
Kindergarden-3rd graders
These beautiful students sang, recognized each veteran by name with a pin and card, and applauded. A slide show featured larger than life photos of each veteran. (Charles Frazee had five photos :). Each grade sang the song for the Army, Navy, AirForce, Marine Corp and Coast Guard. The first graders sang the Marine Corp Hymn. The fourth graders finished with “Anchors Away”. “Taps” was played to honor those who died in service.
Very proud day to be an American! God bless the USA.
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