Thursday, April 15, 2021
After The Fire Is Gone
The din and the clamor is decamping today, moving out of my living area and off to the places east of me. I will still be able to hear them working but at a much lesser degree that will not be bothersome to me. I'm so glad that for now the work on my balcony outside of my dining room/living room...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The Power of Noise or The Noise of Power
It is a beautiful sunny day but I am spending it in a dimmed, darkened, noisy place that will probably go on all day today. All of the rooms that I spend my time in are involved in this maelstrom of noise (sawing, pounding, scraping and loud voices speaking above the sounds of the electric tools,...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021
Where Did That Come From?
I woke suddenly from weird dreaming and I can't get it out of my mind. I don't know where it came from--somewhere down deep, I guess. I don't like to dream. Oh, day dreaming is alright, but I think a person chooses the subject of their day dreams. But in the dark of night when one is sound asleep...
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Saturday, April 3, 2021
Easter Sunday Morning
TURN UP THE SOUND AND JOIN IN AND SING WITH ME:
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Sunny Saturday Hiatus
I need a break from the Barney-Stolls family of which my four sons are blood relations of any that are left. My "Legend of the Cherokee Maps" finally arrived yesterday and I spent some time late into the night reading it. It is quite intriguing. Raysongs has done a very good job. I want to spend...
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Friday, April 2, 2021
(VI) Family Puzzle
On his death bed, with family gathered around, Jacob C. Stoll made a statement with his hands that his family and his descendants puzzled over, pondered, studied on, and questioned if they had misunderstood his signing. Bertha Barney Stoll was positive that she had understood him correctly and if...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
(V) Hard Life Blues
By the time Baby Agnes was born Lawrence and Milford were big boys, big enough to be a big help at the farming, a big help to their father. Evva Dean was second mother to the little ones along with now being chief cook and bottle washer. She also had her eye on a beau. She met Michael Summers at a...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
(IV) The Family
It was a good thing the first baby was a girl for as it turned out, she was the motherly type, and as the other babies came along took good care of her siblings that followed. She never complained of hard work or had to be told what needed doing. She helped her mother uncomplainingly with all the...
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Monday, March 29, 2021
(III) The Last Party
In the late 1800's, farming was hard work. It always has been. It is now. And it always will be. "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:19 All of the people in this bit...
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
(II) Best Day of My Life
When Jacob C. Stoll left his homeland for his dreams of a better place to farm, and immigrated to the U.S. he was in search of good land and other farm people. He ended up in the State of Missouri in Lafayette County with big dreams, plans of hard work, and with the experience that would help him...
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