My family likes to hunt mushrooms after it rains in the spring. We can do that in Indiana if we know which kinds of musrooms are safe to eat and which are not. Most are not, so don’t try hunting mushrooms to eat if you have to guess. You will die if you eat the wrong ones. We hunted for mushrooms in the woods in back of the field behind the barn. I really like the woods in the spring. The
Here is a picture of me holding Inky. My sister, Joan is holding her kitten. We called her kitten Crybaby because it cried a lot. My Daddy took this picture. I love kittens! When we moved to the farm where grandma and grandpa used to live and where Daddy grew up, there were always lots of cats and kittens. One time I counted as many as fourteen! What I really liked was to find
Once I lived across the street from a boy in my class. He had a younger sister, and sometimes I went to his house to play with her. One day I got my courage up and knocked on his door. When he answered I just said, “Do you want to play?” To my surprise he said yes. It was pretty cold out, so we stayed in the house and played tic tac toe and drew pictures and stuff like that. We had fun so I
When I was a really little kid like three or four maybe, I learned something about getting a spanking. I did something that was wrong, but I forgot what it was now. But Mama caught me doing whatever it was–probably something she told me not to do. She picked up a plastic hairbrush off her dresser and looked at me with that look–you know what I mean, the one that means you’re in trouble now. She said, “Come here,
From my Family Heritage Album © 2002 by Janice Green 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