As told to me by my 91-year-old mother: I ran traps every day except during bad weather. I caught animals for their furs. I caught mostly muskrats, but I also caught one raccoon and one skunk. One day, a raccoon got caught in a trap by just one of its toes. I sic’ed Pup on the raccoon but its toe broke loose and it bristled to fight. The fight lasted a long time and Pup got tired. It was dangerous to
What does it take to make a clubhouse? Some kids and a little imagination. Sometimes parents help too. The first clubhouses I remember were the hoghouses. My grandparents had raised hogs many years ago, but now they were just small wooden structures with roofs on them. They had dirt floors and I vaguely remember something boxy enough to sit on. There really wasn’t much to a hoghouse, but it was ours. My older brother Keith and the neighbor boy Ronnie claimed the
Among my earliest memories of writing my own thoughts and ideas I find myself playing with secret codes when I was in about the second grade. My older brother, Keith, had been using secret codes to share messages with Ronnie who lived up the road, and I thought it looked like fun. The easiest code they were writing called for two sheets of paper and a piece of carbon paper. The trick was getting the papers in the right position before
Mom and Dad had only left us on the beach alone for a short time. How could they have ever guessed what adventures we would find to get into? My family went on a camping trip to Florida in the summer of 1960. One afternoon Mom and Dad left us on the beach alone for a short time while they walked farther ahead looking for seashells. We were to stay on the beach or only wade in the shallow water,
My copy of the book, The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every story whispers his name, came in the mail today. I read on facebook that it had won an award and I wanted to find out what made it so special. I was not disappointed when I opened the book. It is full of good stories that are easy to read. But the thing that makes this book so special is that it is more than just a book of stories