10/12/2010

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Folks,
 
Our new addition is coming along well. The roof is on and the walls will be all plastered, both inside and out, by the end of this week. Next comes the ceiling and then the floor and Bathroom wall tiles. Gary
 
 
 
Neola with her mother: Minot & Bottineau, ND
 

Hi Gary,

 

As you can see from the picture I sent yesterday, Mom looks “good”! Her health improvement is due to all the prayers that were said for her. Please thank your readers for their prayers, as I know many of them included Mom/our family in their prayers. As you can see, one more time, prayers worked!!!!!

 

I know many prayers were prayed for me, too. Those prayers were also answered–thanks! I’m busy making caramels. I need about 175 lbs. in the next couple of weeks, or so. Our condo has turned into a “candy making factory”. :)

 

Neola

Your mother and you too, look great! Gary

 

 

 

 

 
 
Deer Heart Lodge – Tales of Old
 
 
 
 
From Dwight Lang (61): Tucson, AZ
 
 
The Deer Heart Lodge was just North of our cattle pasture, maybe 1/4 mile or so. It was run by a Mr. and Mrs. Kochovar (probably misspelled). I was very young at the time so I don’t remember it all that well. But they had many displays featuring taxidermy items like the gopher wedding in the picture as well as a group of frogs playing cards at a table, all with accessories to boot. They also had some elaborate wood furniture and carvings plus garden displays galore. A very beautiful and interesting place. I think they charged a walk through fee but I can’t imagine how they managed to make a go of it being a ways off Willow Lake Road (not necessarily known as a tourist route).
 
Back to the garden features. I must admit that he had the best and sweetest strawberries I have ever tasted. That might be why I never got to know the gentlemen that well since he wasn’t pleased very much when I unexpectedly and uninvited would show up for a taste or two of those sweet berries from time to time. Reminds me of Arizona where one can run for the border for safety. In my case safety was the pasture to the South.
 
On another occasion, we had this bull, Elmer. Elmer was a social critter and did not respect a three barded wire fence it he had a mind to go visiting, be it the neighbors cows or Mr. Kochovar’s gardens. He apparently had a taste for tulips and on one visit to the Deer Heart Lodge he cleaned out one of Mr. Kochovar’s displays of a hundred plus tulips. I remember him visiting my Dad on this occasion. Dad was not very happy but eventually paid up at a buck or two each tulip (big money back then). Now Elmer, I’m not certain what his fate was to be, but I believe he ended up contributing to the McDonald first million served. Another day on the farm, some come, some go!
 
Dwight Lang