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Reply from Duane Woodford (55): Rio Verde, AZ & Bloomington, MN
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Folks, For those of you using AOL, they are evidently converting messages exceeding a certain sizes into ZIP attachments. Message 773 was only 520KB which is actually pretty small, so their size limit is very low for doing this if they are using size as their criteria. I’m not really sure what is going on. This is just a guess on my part. Gary
PS – I have email accounts with most of the major providers of which I use them all on a regular bases. For me gmail has provided the best service and has given me the least amount of problems.
Condolences to the Schimetz Family:
From Gail Halvorson Schuler (72): Bismarck, ND
My deepest sympathy to the Schimetz family. I had not seen Bryan for many years but remember our fun days working at Dales together. May the Lord grant you peace and comfort at this time of loss.
Gail Halvorson Schuler(72)
Condolences to the Schimetz Family:
From Sharron Gottbreht Shen (59): Everett, WA.
When I visited with Bryan in August he was full of talk about friends, espceially former classmates – he spoke of many by name, all with affection. I know Gary’s blog meant a lot to him. This great guy was not around yet when I had the older boys seek shelter under a bed during one of those Dakota egg-beater storms! I sat on top holding the baby girl. Bryan is strong and whole now. Stella and Mark, family and cousins, be comforted.
Alma, my mother, and I visited Ryan and Stella about 2002 – good picture at the Schimetz home.
Sharron
Hope you will correct my spelling error of Bryan’s name. Thanks Gary, Sharron
Condolences to the Schimetz Family:
From Pete (65) & Verena Gillis: Dunseith, ND.
Our sincerest condolences to the Schimetz family. I worked with Stella
at the school for many years up to her retirement. There has not been
another cook to fill her shoes since she left!
Pete and Verena Gillis
Music Jamboree this Saturday for the Rolette County Museum:
Posted by Dick Johnson (68): Dunseith, ND.
Gary and Friends,
This Saturday evening at 7 PM we will again be having the Old Time
Music Jamboree fund raiser for the Rolette County Museum. It is being
held at the usual place, the St. John Senior Citizens hall on Main
street in St. John. This year we have several groups already committed
to play and more may show up by show time. We have a Canadian fiddle
player who is really outstanding. He hasn’t performed for us before but
will be included in the program. Some of the other groups tentatively
signed up are–Carl and Shirley Melgaard, Highway 43, the Lund Family,
Rita Langer, and Gary Lepine (sp), the fiddler. I heard tonight that we
may also be treated to a few songs by Mel Kuhn’s son, Toby and his
friends. It should be a fun night for fans of home grown style music.
The Senior Citizens will again have the lunch counter loaded with
goodies for sale. I hope many of the readers of this blog will attend.
The admission is $5. and is for the entire evening of music and all
proceeds go directly to the Rolette County Museum. Thanks!
Dick
Email exchanges between Larry Hackman (66) and Dick Johnson (68):
Posted by Larry Hackman: Bismarck, ND
Folks, Please read up starting with Dick’s message to Larry.
Larry, We are so glad that you are back on line. In this day and age computer problems can be hell. Gary
Larry’s reply to Dick
You know making ice cream and churning butter was a good job for them
damn kids, they didn’t have anything else to do no how. We got our
ice from the water tank. The lake was to far away. Anyway! We would
rather eat cow slobber then musk rat droppings. You know whar i mean.
We were kind of dairy people after all. Although, I suppose if you
wanted rocky road your way was better? I think ours kind of looked
like New York Vanilla?
Larry,
Dick’s reply to Larry
Larry’s back! If the mother board burned out, you could try the
father board. When my computer died it was from cranking it too fast so
we got one now that has no crank. I got carried away just like in the
old days, making ice cream. Did you get in on cranking the old ice
cream maker? We used ice from the lake and farm cream—-I’m getting
hungry just thinking about it! If us kids wanted ice cream, we had to
crank that old can for an hour. The older folks just sat in the house
and waited for the work to be done—something wrong with this picture!
It got a little bit green the last few days but tonight there are
thunderstorms to the west and the lightening is starting so that
usually brings the grass on. Glad to hear you didn’t fly the coop.
Dick
Larry’s rely to Dick
The mother board burned in my computor. I had to order and get
another one and am still working on having it brought up to speed.
So you can let everyone know I’m back after being gone for about
three weeeks. I’m still in the coop, just was unable to
communicate. Are things turning green up there yet?
Larry
Dick’s message to Larry
Larry,
What’s up in Bismarck? Mel says your mailbox is full. Yesterday I
talked to Larry Millang at WalMart and he asked if you were gone? Maybe
you flew the coop!
Dick
Friday, April 16, 2010 1:07 PM, CDT
Reply from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
Hi Gary,
As you know, I drive the road east and the road west of Bear/Bare Butte often. I’ll be driving the west side (by Harlan/Joyce’s farm) in the too far future. I decorate graves (As you know, there are many Kofoid/Petterson/Brudwick graves there–also friends’ graves) at Vinje Cemetery each year. The road just to the north of Harlan/Joyce’s farm is a “four corner”. Going north takes you to Vinje Church–it’s about a quarter of a mile to the east of the road; east goes to Lyle/Vivian Mattern Thompson’s farm; south goes to Harlan/Joyce’s; west takes you Bottineau. I think, nestled in the corner to the right when you are at the corner, is the old Brunsell place. There are three “wicked” hills between this corner/Vinje Church. We always called them the “Oelschlager Hills”, as Oelschalger’s lived farther north on the road. I don’t know if the hills are so wicked, but from the top of them, looking down, they seem wicked–especially in the “old days” after it had rained.
Added info about the Oelschlager farm: This farm originally belonged to Albert/Ida Gunderson Vikan, Ina Oelschalger’s parents. Albert/Ida moved to a place about a mile, or so, NW of Bottineau and Harold/Ina/family moved to Albert/Ida’s place in the hills.) Audrey Vikan Woods, daughter of Albert/Ida, was married to Pat Woods, Jack’s brother, Pat (I’m quite sure it was Pat.). When Audrey passed away a few years ago, she was buried at Vinje Church. She is buried in the NW corner of the cemetery. Going NW and over the hill from her grave, you would come to her “homeplace”. Audrey is buried under a tree–I think, an oak tree. A granite bench (in honor of Audrey) has been placed not far away.
Neola
P.S. I hope this makes sense, Gary.
Neola, I remember those three hills well. One didn’t have to be going terribly fast either to get butterflies in your stomach when cresting those hills either. I think they have been rounded some now though, but they are still there. There are some mighty long steep hills on that same road too. Dad’s sister Olga lived a short distance west and north of Harlan and Joyce Flaata’s.
Correction to yesterday’s message. I should have said we turned west at Oscar Wenstad’s, not Arnold Wenstad’s.
