Sunday the 20th
Dora:
Read A.M.
Went to church & S.S P.M. and when we came home had my first auto ride around the square
Mrs Shelly Preached or rather held the meeting.
Note: I'm sort of surprised it took them this long to actually have a ride in the new car. Her father had brought the new car home on the 7th of April. Either they were just busy with getting started plowing, or maybe they just admired the car a while before trying to figure out how to drive it. Either way, today marks the beginning of an era in the Schneider family and it's descendants...
I am also familiar with this "square" as my cousin Jason and I would ride our bikes around the block (as we called it). Today, this consists of a happy downhill ride, a turn left onto a dirt road, which was pure agony, then another left turn to an even more agonizing upward climb. This takes you to the top of a very large, two-part hill, which was exhilarating (and dangerous-one never wanted to wipe out on this hill). Then on to another left turn and a slow upward climb, only made tolerable by the memory of the most recent exhilaration. Turn one last left and then the last hill. That last hill would let you glide nicely home.
So, I can imagine a ride in a Model T around those same curves, probably only different in the fact that none of the roads were paved at that time.
Another point: Mrs. Shelly preached? Her husband must have been the preacher and not available. Interesting that her first point is that she preached, meaning that she led the meeting in a very similar way that her husband would have, but then Dora remembered that women don't preach. So, she backed off.
Ray:
27-50 Fair
at home in am
church in pm
went down to Grandmas at night
Saturday the 20th
Cayla:
We ran errands in the am. I took Maurice for a hair cut. The cable guy came and fixed some things in the afternoon. Tarek and I went out and celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. We went to the Melting Pot, which is where he proposed to me eight years ago. What a sweet guy! We got home late and I forgot to post until we were half asleep...
Monday the 21st
Dora:
Washed and cleaned church yard.
Ray:
40-60 Fair
Plowed and dragged all day.
Sunday the 21st
Cayla:
Went to church.
Everyone (except Ada) took naps. She blabbed happily and may have slept for a bit, but certainly didn't take her usual 2-3 hour nap. Maurice slept for three hours, which is highly unusual.
We made a quick trip to a store to look at a couch we are interested in once everyone was up. Maurice is cracking us up with the things he is saying these days. At the store, he saw something (I don't know what it was) and he said, "Oh, that's strange!" He said it with such force, it was hilarious.
And as we were reading to him tonight before bed he started reading the book with us and using the vocal inflections that we usually use and then he gave me a really proud look.
Interesting outlook Cayla. Loved the "square" missive. I remember the same ride as well, although the siblings would intentionally make you wipe out on the big hill on Pinhook. That wasn't fun when you realized one of your brothers would try to ram a piece of wood in the spokes to try to make you crash. I happened on occasion. I was even guilty of it in retaliation at times.
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