This dog was Dotty that Mom bought for Mike
That bush in the background was really a blackberry patch. Gosh how I loved those berries!
Hey, this is pretty good - ears up! See that little black line running thru the yard? When we moved in our house, we found a big ole iron kettle. So Dad moved it to the field side of our picket fence, ran the hose out to it, filled it up & then let the water just trickle in 24/7 so Nip always had fresh water. (water was free at that time)
LOL-- This was one of my artisie shots - I won a little box camera in a talent show & was always trying to take artistic pictures. Most were awful like this one but a couple winter shots weren't too bad.
Nip must have had his mane cropped here. Our field was full of burs - I was very bad at keeping them out of his mane & tail so Dad cropped his mane. I hated that - finally got Dad to stop & I did get better at de-burring the mane & tail.
I think I was about 12 here.
Mom must have taken these three pix. She always wanted me to wear my hat & wave it around. I don't think I ever wore it other than when she was taking pix.
This was taken in Ed's field right behind his slaughter house.-- Ed was
our neighbor who owned the local grocery. He raised & sold his own
beef for many years. When he stopped raising his beef, he asked if we
would like to let Nip use his fields too. Well, of course we would, so
we cut a portion of the fence a way to make a nice big gate.
Those
trees you see in the background were the Brusman family's apple orchard.
They kept a chestnut horse, who's name I can't remember & a black
& white pony named Tony in the orchard. The four of us would talk
over the fence. lol
That tall tree to the right was a Hickory.
It grew on the Clark's property . I brought a bunch of the nuts home -
Mom didn't know what they were so wouldn't let me eat them but Dad knew
they were Hickory. I found them to be yummy but very, very, very had
to get out of their shells.
Ed's field across from his old barn
Yet another awful art shot----------lol
Gosh -he looks so good here - this is the way I always think of him - very good lookin' horse
Mom & Dad tried to get Mike to learn to ride--- No Luck. Dad had
been leading him around the field here when Mom took this pix.
This was taken the summer we had Missy the pony. Mom thought Mike could ride the pony instead of the horse. That didn't work either. Mike was just not a rider.
For those of you from Vandalia - the old Lutheran church is directly behind Nip - their parsonage is on the left - not sure who was on the right. I'll look next time I'm out that way & see if I might remember.
This was taken at the first place Nip stayed after we moved to Ga. It was not a good place. I went over to see him one day & found the people there had put a huge big heavy chain around his neck to keep him from biting their mule.
Mom & I drove around & found a place that looked like something out of a movie set-- beautiful white house with great green fenced field in front. Turned out the nicest people lived there & let Nip stay there for nothing. It was much closer to my house which made it even better.
Nip & Missy headed up to the shade of another Mulberry tree in Ed's field.
This was taken in our field. That's our Cottonwood grove behind him. Nip & I both spent a lot of happy hours in that grove.