The first picture was taken on the upper side of the first gate coming down the hill, a little ways up from the barn. The cows are going out to pasture after being milked. It is the old road before it was graded and made new. Too the right is the tobacco patch. The second picture was taken in the (what we called the front of the house, The trees to the far right of the picture would be the begining of the Shellabarger farm, Where the cows are is probabley on the way down to the spring where they got water. The pasture where the big tree is where Mother and Daddy planted their orchard, They had a chicken house there for a little while before they planted the orchard. That is where Mahlon use to chase me around with a stick that had cow poop on the end of it, and say s–t on a stick and rub it in your face! I would be running for all I was worth,screaming my head off. Guess that is why I was such a good track runner in high school. I had plenty of practice at home! ha Past the telephone pole, too the left, you can see a tree, there were two trees there, I think they were apple trees. Out in the pasture to the right, and befind the chicken house there was a patch, about 15′ by 10′ of pepperment or spearment plants growing. That was always a big treat to have ice cold spearment to drink, We pulled or cut off the stalks bought them in the house, washed them, and mashed them with mothers potatao masher so the flavor could come out, mixed in sugar and water and ice. and we had a delicious drink. This is what I see looking at this picture.
Lolly, after all that BS you still smell pretty good.
I used to know all the cows names too. Daisy and Polly and the last one was Susan. I think Susan was from Polly.
The bulls all named fancy names…King Fauvic Aim the son of King Royal Aim.(Mahlon made some comments I can’t print here) Then there was Royal Ashley Noble. I think maybe Vernon and Daddy went to Springfield and bought a bull calf a couple months old – they stuck his a.. in a gunny sack and put him in the back seat of the 1932 Buick and brought him home from Springfield. And our cows lived happily ever after.
Aunt Lolly says
The first picture was taken on the upper side of the first gate coming down the hill, a little ways up from the barn. The cows are going out to pasture after being milked. It is the old road before it was graded and made new. Too the right is the tobacco patch. The second picture was taken in the (what we called the front of the house, The trees to the far right of the picture would be the begining of the Shellabarger farm, Where the cows are is probabley on the way down to the spring where they got water. The pasture where the big tree is where Mother and Daddy planted their orchard, They had a chicken house there for a little while before they planted the orchard. That is where Mahlon use to chase me around with a stick that had cow poop on the end of it, and say s–t on a stick and rub it in your face! I would be running for all I was worth,screaming my head off. Guess that is why I was such a good track runner in high school. I had plenty of practice at home! ha Past the telephone pole, too the left, you can see a tree, there were two trees there, I think they were apple trees. Out in the pasture to the right, and befind the chicken house there was a patch, about 15′ by 10′ of pepperment or spearment plants growing. That was always a big treat to have ice cold spearment to drink, We pulled or cut off the stalks bought them in the house, washed them, and mashed them with mothers potatao masher so the flavor could come out, mixed in sugar and water and ice. and we had a delicious drink. This is what I see looking at this picture.
Mahlon says
Lolly, after all that BS you still smell pretty good.
I used to know all the cows names too. Daisy and Polly and the last one was Susan. I think Susan was from Polly.
The bulls all named fancy names…King Fauvic Aim the son of King Royal Aim.(Mahlon made some comments I can’t print here) Then there was Royal Ashley Noble. I think maybe Vernon and Daddy went to Springfield and bought a bull calf a couple months old – they stuck his a.. in a gunny sack and put him in the back seat of the 1932 Buick and brought him home from Springfield. And our cows lived happily ever after.
Christina Rowland says
It must have taken some time to get those cows to line up so nicely for the photo!
Naomi Vetter says
Lolly – Do you remember the cow’s names? The only one I can remember is “Crazy Nut.”