For anyone who is interested....
These are the two notebooks I wrote the journals in.
A look at the inside at my hand-written pages.
These are the envelopes of pictures for the Linefork years.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
April, May, and June 1996
Timmy and Tristan with the Easter baskets they made.
We used one-gallon milk jugs and cut the hole on the front, then glued cotton balls
all over them. Then we cut the eyes, ears, and nose from construction paper.
They could hold the handle of the jug on the back of the bunny's head.
Then we put Easter grass in them.
Emily with her basket that I 'helped' her with, and a
random basket she found.
Same thing, different pose.
Barbara with her Easter basket, and a hat she got at the dollar store.
Emily wanted to sit on the swing because Barbara did!
She got a hat at the dollar store too.
We went to the Cowan community center for an Easter egg hunt and games. It was cold and damp and there was a small amount of snow. Quite cold for here this time of year.
A windy, cold day.
Emily, Barbara, Tristan, and Timmy
Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
The kids with some toads they found along the back of the yard.
Tristan, Barbara, Timmy
Tristan and Emily in our living room. Emily decided Tristan needed
a bottle too!
Timmy's favorite truck, "Tumpen", had a birthday so we
made it a cake.
There's the kids on the porch with the cake. You can see how easy it was for them to run out on the living room porch and right onto the trampoline!
Left to Right: Timmy, Emily, Barbara, Tristan.
Our cat looking like she should be in one of those
funny Facebook posters.
The swingset my Dad and I built for the kids.
Left to Right: Timmy, Barbara, Emily, Tristan, Becky
On the porch of "Roger's cabin", about half a mile above our house.
This is the pond that Roger threw Barbara into after she
tossed a salamander into his shirt. She was 10 years old at the time!
Tristan on the trampoline.
Timmy. This is at a playground somewhere over by Cumberland, I think.
Possibly Kingdom Come State Park?
Tristan
I think it's Kingdom Come State Park.
Emily going down the slide.
Kingdom Come State Park
Tristan going down the slide.
Kingdom Come State Park
Timmy on top of the monkey bars.
Kingdom Come State Park
Log Rock
Kingdom Come State Park
A cannon at one of the play areas.
Kingdom Come State Park.
Kingdom Come State Park
Barbara, at home on Linefork.
Becky
At my parents' house in Wisconsin
Tristan on Becky's bike.
At my parents' house in Wisconsin
Barbara
At my parents' house in Wisconsin
Barbara, on the swing at my parent's house in Wisconsin.
A flower arrangement Barbara made in a box.
At my parents' house in Wisconsin.
The kids sitting on the well box in my parents' yard in Wisconsin
Barbara in back. Trista, Emily, and Timmy in middle.
Becky in front.
Hiking at a state park in northern Kentucky on our way home from Wisconsin.
Timmy, Emily, Becky, Tristan, and Barbara.
We were bringing Becky home for the summer from my parents' house.
The toy snake around Timmy's neck is the one we fooled Roger with on
the seat of the bulldozer.
Timmy, Emily, Becky, Tristan, and Barbara.
Me and the kids. Barbara and I in back.
Tristan, Timmy, and Becky in the middle.
Emily in front.
Same state park in northern Kentucky.
Timmy, Barbara, Tristan, and Becky.
Emily in front.
A playground somewhere near Lexington, KY
Becky, Barbara, Timmy, Tristan
Timmy on top of the monkey bars.
Becky on top of the monkey bars.
Emily and Becky ride the 'horses'.
At a go-kart track near Lexington.
Tristan
At a go-kart track near Lexington.
Timmy
At a go-kart track near Lexington.
Barbara
At a go-kart track near Lexington.
Becky
Timmy and Tristan in the far back.
Becky in the middle. Barbara in front.
Timmy being followed by Tristan.
Friday, September 5, 2014
February and March, 1996
Back in 1996 we didn't have digital cameras. I had an inexpensive 35 mm. camera, and we had to buy film and pay for developing. You had no idea how your pictures came out until you got them back from being developed. I love digital cameras and the ability to see your pictures right away, and to take dozens of pictures and delete the ones that aren't as good. What a wonderful invention!
We were 'financially challenged' in those early years at Linefork, so I don't have as many pictures as I do for the later years. Looking back at my pictures I'm surprised I didn't take more of the house and things like that. Some of the pictures I took, and have posted here, might be boring to the general public, but I want my kids to have a chance to see and 'save' them to their computers if they want any of them.
If you have any comments please leave them below, or email me at
Nancy Lee, for reasons I can't figure out, my computer will not let me respond to your comments on the other post, and it won't even let me leave a comment to let you know that I appreciate your comments! Thanks! I'd love to hear YOUR story!
Susan
A misty February morning, from the flat near the house, looking out over the valley.
That's the meadow I did so much walking on over the years there, back and forth
for exercise.
Two-year old Emily on the trampoline.
Barbara, nine years old.
The view from our living room porch, probably late February or early March.
The "branch" we carried water from ran down the ravine over the edge of the yard.
The trees across from us are on the other side of the creek.
You had to climb down to a small flat about 20' below our yard to get
to the branch.
The 'Arch' in St. Louis, Missouri
In March I took the boys and Emily with me back to northwestern Missouri to get our stuff from where we had lived there. The girls stayed with Jackie. We traveled in our 1977 Jeep pick-up truck, and on the way back we towed our little camping trailer. Both the truck and the camper were loaded with our things. Left to right: Timmy, Emily, Tristan.
Of course we went up in the arch!
That's the Mississippi river.
It was cool looking straight down at cars!
A tugboat and barge on the muddy Mississippi river.
We stayed at a Motel 6, and the kids really loved this picture on the wall.
Timmy
Tristan
Emily.
They wanted to always remember that 'beautiful picture'.
The kids on our living room porch.
Left to right:
Tristan, Becky, Barbara, Timmy. Emily in front.
This was the day Becky left with my Dad to go stay with them in Wisconsin. That's why she has a coat on and the other kids don't.
Left to right:
Tristan, Becky, Barbara, Timmy, and my Dad. Emily in front of Timmy.
We had the trampoline up against the living room porch and they were the same height. The kids could go running out the door, across the porch, and right onto the trampoline, so they spent a lot of time there.
Tristan doing a flip.
Barbara
Timmy
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