When I was small, I spent many hours sitting on Daddy’s lap combing his hair. He had lots of patience and endured a lot. He taught us to play blind pitch, and then regular pitch. He played the harmonica and I played my drum sitting by the old wood stove in the wintertime.
On cold winter weekend nights, we would run upstairs where the peanuts and popcorn were laid out to dry on papers on the floor, dip up a big pan of peanuts and grab ears of popcorn and take them to the kitchen. We put the peanuts in the oven to bake and shelled the popcorn. We would pop a big dishpan of popcorn. Then Mahlon, Cleo, Naomi and I would play cards or Monopoly till midnight.
Naomi Vetter says
Those were the best times of all living on the farm other, than when our older siblings came home. I have fun telling my grandchildren how we had to harvest our popcorn and shell it ourselves and pop it.
Danny Sommerer says
Lloyd Jr. I think Sam gave me a wrong number for you. Could you please give us the complete list of contact info for our family that you were updating at HP this year.. Thank you and Gods blessings to you and Lauren. Danny
Lloyd Jr. says
I was doing something important when you called and then forgot to call you back. Yes. I’ll get it for you. When do you need it by?
Danny Sommerer says
Any time, my wife only asks me about it twice a day. Just when you can. Thank you.
Aunt Lolly says
After Mahlon left home. Lloyd would play monopoly with us, He was probably around 7 years old. He would be our banker. He was very good in math. When it snowed, we would gather us up a bowl of nice clean snow, sprinkle sugar and vanilla on it, go outside where the cream cans of milk were setting, open the lid, and dip down into the can and get a big dipper of thick cream, pour it into the snow, and we had the best ice cream. We grew up with plenty of good milk, cream, collage cheese,cooked cheese, eggs, and ice cream. When it was hot in the summer Dady would go up to the store almost ever evening and buy ice. We made ice cream and then dumped the left over ice in the barrel where the milk was cooled. This would have been when I was in high school.