Friday, September 19, 2008
Sarah and Fred
For a few years the story is really of Sarah and Fred, both my grandparents; for they were so closely bonded together.Fred was full of tricks, literally.His early days in Australia were spent in Adelaide where his parents had hoped to become wealthy merchants. They may or may not have been...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
good years for Sarah
Young, strong, in love with her husband; and successful! Sarah seemed to have everything. While the neighbors struggled with small plots of land and inferior farming techniques, she and Fred(that's my grandfather) were able to amass quite a fortune.Sarah had given Fred her money to invest in land...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I got off the track a bit tonight!
Sarah had financial wealth to bring to her marriage, a boy child who took his stepfather's name at the wedding, and all the love she had longed to pour into a relationship. Not that life was easy. Her new father-in-law died and she found herself busy with house work another baby on the way and...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A twist in the road. The story of Sarah my Gram cont.
A new century was dawning, and so much in the world was changing. The horse-less carriage was on the roads, still mainly an inconvenient annoyance. No one could possibly know what a world wide change that was going to become in the next decades.The old Queen on the throne in England was now very...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
So! Back to Sarah's life story.
With his son dead, Sarah's father-in-law was uncomfortable sharing a house and land with my Grandmother, still only a very young woman at the time. I think she was attractive, but the photos seems to show more a woman of character and determination rather than of girlish prettiness. Her hair was...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Happy Birthday to my own Grandaughter.
Dear Sarah will have to wait a day because I have written this poem for my own little girl to send her and thought you may like to read it. For Mikayla The little people met one day they all had such a worry A dreadful toad had come to stay and put them in a flurry He smelled real bad he never...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Naughty nineties
The end of the 19th century was often referred to as the Naughty nineties. I don't really know why except perhaps for the Can Can and champagne becoming a popular drink. All of this French of course. In rural Australia where Sarah was growing up, it still wasn't seemly for a single girl to waltz...
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Change
A person would have to be brain dead or have fallen into a stupor not to have heard that word bandied around everywhere lately.Change!!!!! Funny how a word can set thoughts off in one's mind. Just that one word, change, has set my mind to thinking of all the changes that happened in my Grandmother's...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sorry kids not one of my better days.
I have bee fighting a bad tension headache today all day so it's a short blog tonight. Wiley has been just the best and with all his tender administrations I can feel it starting to go away. I know what the problem is. Yesterday I had a list of questions in my email from my new lawyer and I had to...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Mandy and Mum
I drifted off to sleep last night after writing my post, thinking about Mum and her dog. Actually Mandy was half boarder Collie and half Kelpie an Australian sheep dog breed. She was a lovely tan colored dog with the temperament of an angel. She had been given to my sister originally. When my sister...
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