Farm Music » The Farm http://farmmusic.org Life on the farm in Pawnee County. Songwriting, recording, woods walking, chain sawing, tractor driving, bonfires, homegrown tomatoes. It's all music - Farm Music. Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:35:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mother’s Day – My Mom http://farmmusic.org/2009/05/mothers-day-my-mom/ http://farmmusic.org/2009/05/mothers-day-my-mom/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 18:07:03 +0000 Ripley http://farmmusic.org/?p=137 My mom died back in ’87. Saying “I miss her” doesn’t really do justice to the reality of it. Charlene’s mom is gone as well. We just wish so many times that they were here to share and take part in our lives-especially with the kids. Didn’t turn out that way for us. God knows best. Father Knows Best. I looked through a few old pictures. Here’s one I quite liked of Mom holding my little brother Bobby. Cool cars too.

The picture was taken at my Uncle Elmer’s house – originally the Schanzenbach homestead which adjoined the original Ripley homestead. The Schanzenbachs were my dad’s mother’s side of the family. All of that (just about mile away from our place, as the crow flies) is now owned by the infamous (and I don’t use that word lightly) Berrys.

Check out my cousins, Jack and Gene, standing closest to Mom. You’d think they’d been PhotoShop’d – but no, they were that long, lean, and lanky. The landscape was as bleak as the life itself, but we didn’t know it.

Mom Holding My Brother Bobby

Mom Holding My Brother Bobby

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