tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24406457720340743532024-02-07T17:51:11.861-08:00Binders and Draft HorsesDenvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-22157455561875390942021-12-19T09:14:00.000-08:002021-12-19T09:14:21.476-08:00Only Six Days until Christmas<p> I just read how Francis of Assisi around 1200 changed how Christianity put more emphasis on the birth of Jesus. I quickly considered how modern Christians, and all mankind for that matter, views and celebrates Christmas. My next thought slipped over to my working our family tree in recent weeks.</p><p> Modern technology and what it can do has allowed people to consolidate mass amounts of information about individual's ancestors. Truly it's mostly names and dates, and we need to be cautious about even that information, especially when we find discrepancies in the data or we have first-hand information that rivaled the online data. However, what we find allows us to continue to find accurate information and offers hints to what and who are ancestors were.</p><p> I feel like I'm stuck in the 16th and 15th centuries. Partially because by the time you get to that point in the family tree, say your grandparents with ten "greats" before the title grandfather or grandmother, there are more than a thousand names. It seems like a miracle that records going back far can be found but the data often stops there.</p><p> However, as we near Christmas not knowing details about these ancestors, but extrapolating from known history and our own personal recent experiences we can visualize the differences between today's Christmas and the Christmas celebrations of our foreparents centuries ago.</p><p> They didn't have a warm house heated by electricity or forced air. Perhaps they had a fireplace or some type of fire in the house, certainly with the smell of smoke and some cooking over the fire. On Christmas the cooking was special, perhaps some meat saved just for this day. The milk and cheese didn't come from the refrigerator but from their cow or the neighbor's cow. There were no lights on the Christmas tree because there was no Christmas tree, TV shows or sports, or bowls of fresh fruit and candies. On Christmas eve or Christmas morning the children probably were excited about the gift their parents had made for them. I visualize a Christmas Day so full of joy and laughter and food and singing that contrast from all other days. Having memories of the year before I suspect the children's anticipation for that day was almost torturous. It truly was a day of celebration. </p><p> I encourage each of us to recognize the many blessings we have and to allow our minds to imagine Christmas three to four hundred years ago. I hope that your Christmas will be a great Christmas contrasting with other days of the year and that the anticipation be excruciating.</p>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-1916419141617273012018-12-26T16:32:00.000-08:002018-12-26T16:36:28.947-08:00Holy Roman EmperorPerhaps it was like Alice following the rabbit down the hole in Wonderland. I was checking information about Wilhelm Ziegler in familysearch.com when I clicked on the little [family] tree icon by his name. The "tree" suggested by means of a "greater than" symbol to the right of his name that there was additional information about his parents. <br />
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I clicked.<br />
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Alas, there was more information, some familiar to me, some new to me. I hastened to my own database and added the new information. After reaping those gems of new information I clicked on the next "greater than" icon. Now the information was all new and another encouraging icon loomed before me. There were other such icons on the page for parents of the spouses. I followed one than the other, usually one would dead end with no parental information and I would return to follow the other.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8j3k_nYaYYkmBOWOniyJnuUJf2-xvE5K7pLUE66Gri_CphZnIGRN09tgXN7u_eIdVxexj21sDplBYQd52uU0gDEqZ_tJEaT3rLmU6cq1vYpOND_LDQewfF8NZuSzMEwD-DtBn2bsvrMp/s1600/landgrafhermann.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8j3k_nYaYYkmBOWOniyJnuUJf2-xvE5K7pLUE66Gri_CphZnIGRN09tgXN7u_eIdVxexj21sDplBYQd52uU0gDEqZ_tJEaT3rLmU6cq1vYpOND_LDQewfF8NZuSzMEwD-DtBn2bsvrMp/s1600/landgrafhermann.png" /></a>Just as Alic's hole got deeper, I found ancestors from centuries ago, and beyond. The adventure continued. After one click, an image appeared by the name of a great-great-more-grandfather. It wasn't from a cell phone or Brownie camera; after all it was in 1150. It was a piece of art. I asked myself, "Do we have ancestors important enough that someone did a painting of them?" His father also had a picture. His name was Hermann I von Thüringen and his father's was Ludwig III von Thüringen. Both had been country counts, a bit of royalty. The image on the right of Hermann I is a part of a larger drawing in a booklet called Elizabeth's Psalms, or something similar to that.<br />
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Jot it down in my database, I did, and continued on. The next ancestors were Friedrich I and then Agnes von Waiblingen. When I came to Agnes's father I had to do more than a double take. Agnes's father was Henry IV Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1056 to 1106. All I could say was "Wow, could this be true?" <br />
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Now I was really really interested in what might be next. More icons leading to parents and dead ends. Finally only one set of parents remained. Then the final click, no more icons or names of parents. I had reached Brunhari Hamaland who lived in Hamaland in eastern Netherlands; he was born in 725 and died in 794. Again wow!<br />
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Now, to wake up from this dream or hallucination and determine what was real and what was not. And how do you verify information that may be as old as 1300 years old? It will be an interesting challenge; discrepancies are bound to appear. Meanwhile we will relish our status with our ancestors, regardless of their behavior and share one image of Henry IV<br />
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and a summary of our ancestral tree starting with my grandsons and going through the Ziegler branch.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Dominic and Riley Saxowsky, sons of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marc, son of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erna Ziegler, 1920- 2002, daughter of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wilhelm B Ziegler, 1884-1956, son of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Barbara Friedrich, 1847-1934,
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Philipp Friedrich, 1815-1862, son of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maria Catharina Scholder, 1756-?, daughter
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Graf
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Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-66620606641650752532017-07-05T20:32:00.001-07:002017-07-05T20:32:38.160-07:00John JohnsonThese are some notes from our visit with Duane and Shirley Johnson on their farm in Lafayette, Colorado, July 4, 2017.<br />
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Duane and Shirley have an upstairs room with exercise equipment and a wall of framed pictures of family members, mostly old photos. One unframed oval-shaped convex is of a family with parents and eleven children. I learned it was Duane father's family. His father is one of the twin boys, Rodie and Ray; it could be Roderick and Raymond. There were two older boys and one younger. The oldest, Duane says, died in the Great War. The next oldest is John, called Johnny, the same as his father John Johnson, who emigrated from Scotland, east side, about 1860, to Ontario, Canada. He and his wife Jessie probably moved to North Dakota soon after. All the children were born in North Dakota.<br />
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We are most familiar with the farm of Don and Amy McLeod which was just about a half mile south of the Ralph and Ellen Cameron farm on the Ayr/Argusville Road. Rodie, Duane's father farmed this place and Duane and his siblings, Dallas and Amy, were born and raised there. Grandfather John originally farmed a piece about four miles east of Rodie's farm on the corner of the Ayr/Argusville Road and the road to Erie. One of the other brothers, Ray or Johnny, took over farming this piece and the other had a farm north of that corner. Farming in the early thirty was very difficult with poor prices on farm products and very poor weather. One of the farms was purchased from an individual who patiently waited maybe as much as a decade when crops were better to get paid. Duane called him a wonderful man, someone who lived in Fargo.<br />
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It seems that none of them were very good farmers. Ray moved to Mayville after losing his farm and managed a gas station. Years later Rodie also moved to Mayville. Ray and Rodie as twins were very close and so Rodie was very disturbed when Ray moved to Montana shorter after Rodie moved to Mayville. Johnny also left the farm and moved to Mayville.<br />
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In 1925 Johnny married Francis McLean and in 1928 Rodie married her sister Mary. Francis and Mary are sisters of Margaret Ellen McLean who married Ralph Cameron who were the parents of Gail Cameron Saxowsky.<br />
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Duane didn't say much about his aunts, the sisters of his father Rodie, except that several moved to California after they married.<br />
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Duane attended Ayr High School and earned a degree in mathematics at Mayville State Teachers College, now called Mayville State University. He earned a Masters in mathematics at North Dakota State University and taught at Hamline University and Dickinson State Teachers College. He joined the air force at the age of 19 and after taking a class was assigned to teach the class. (I can't remember what he taught. Something to do with repairing military radios if I heard correctly.) At age 29 he moved to Colorado where he met Shirley (Rowden), the administrator in the math department at CU, whom he married the next year. He also adopted her three children by an earlier husband: Jim, another son whose name I don't remember and Terri, the youngest, born in 1958. Duane and Shirley have one grandchild.<br />
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Duane taught at the university for awhile and then worked for IBM for about 12 years. After he retired he started sharpening knives at farmer's markets until it grew into business with persons sharpening about four sites two days a week for six months each year. Many of the sharpening tools he created and built himself. Shirley worked with him for years before the sharpening business selling the produce they raised on their farm. The farm was a part of the land her great-grandfather accumulated after he came and homesteaded in 1860. Their house is the expansion after three major remodeling of the farmhouse built in about 1916 and was adjacent to her mother's house.<br />
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More later.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-6542721543542156622016-08-05T20:52:00.001-07:002016-08-05T20:52:04.113-07:00Hand ToolsBabies don't care about much beyond eating, sleeping and a clean diaper. Youngsters focus on their friends and their games. Teens and college students are dealing with hormones. It's not until much later that one recognizes the essence of family ancestors. While I've been curious since the 80's, I was in my 40's, my mother had hundreds of relatives and was willing to help me, I'm now over 70 years old and think about how I'm going to gather and share information about my ancestors several times a day.<br />
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All my ancestors are old and has always been old, or so it's seems. They sat and talked while others threw balls and played with the children. They fixed dinner and cleaned the kitchen, sewed clothes and waited in the truck waiting for the grain from the combine. Their tools were old and didn't look like those in the hardware store or farm supply shop. Their clothes were simple and they looked old also. Their conversations were void of modern technology. Of course, I'm almost 20 years older than they were when I first thought they were old.<br />
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Now I'm doing what my ancestors were doing. I paint small projects with a shaking hand. I do small jobs around the yard, hoeing, raking, watering - with old tools that I have maintained with replacement handles made of tree branches. I have a hoe - I love it, it's my favorite - that has been sharpened so many times by grandpa Ziegler that it's not much more than a sliver. The metal part is loose where it connects to the wooden handle.<br />
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In the shop I treasure several tools. While I can't read the numbers on the carpenter square that I got from the Ziegler estate, it's unique and special because modern carpenters have two legs measuring 16 and 24 inches, both divisible into the standard of plywood 48", and the square I have has legs of length 18 and 24 inches. This type of carpenter square was common before the use of plywood and studs were placed 18" apart.<br />
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In the kitchen are several items that one might find in an antique shop: a crank butter churn with a cracked glass jar, a toaster where the sides fold out, a milk bottle and a couple paper lids, all of which don't get used because some part of them is cracked or broken. In the same kitchen is a large wooden bowl for shaping butter or kneading bread. Some of these may have been used by the Ziegler or Weisz ancestor, maybe one of my great-grandparents. There's also a butter spatula for shaping butter and a wrought iron iron. Neither get used as we have an electric iron and we don't have a cow for cream to make butter.<br />
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As I work in the kitchen using some of these items I realize how long they have been in use, and I can envision how my ancestors might have used them. Not far from where I'm cooking stands a China closet. The sides are curved glass, as is the door. The feet and top are eloquently carved. It's a cabinet that I envied as it sat in grandma Ziegler's living room near Hebron. Mom acquired it after Lenhard and Elsie died. I acquired it after Mom died. Our grandparents bought it from Rev. Debus, one of the first ministers of our church in Hebron, when he left Hebron.<br />
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On the wall behind the China closet is an oval shaped picture frame with domed glass front. The picture is Wilhelm and Regina Weisz Ziegler, our grandparents, at their wedding.<br />
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The most cherished and therefore carefully stored in my desk is a measuring tool. It's like a foot long ruler but different. When folded, yes, it folds, it's six inches long. When unfolded it's two feet long. The hinges and edges are metal, maybe a brass; the core where the numbers and hashmarks are scribed is wood. I played with this as a child, completely intrigued by its structure and function. This valuable antique is probably worth less than $20. For me, invaluable; it was my grandfather's and maybe his father's, made after 1870.<br />
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Now I am my ancestors, old, stiff, with old tools so I am in a place where I want to share this heritage with those who don't care yet. But when they will care, I may not be here remembering what they want to know. So I go to write.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-815949967089287732015-06-14T20:05:00.001-07:002015-06-14T20:05:21.439-07:00Small World - HoeraufsAs we left the conference hall we stopped at a table selling chocolates and nuts. The gentleman behind the table was from Sweet Home, Oregon and had been there since the '60's. In response I asked if he knew of Ernest and Ann Wolters; he was mayor of Hebron, North Dakota, my childhood town when I was child.<br />
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"Ann and Ernie. Oh yes. If you're from Hebron, do you know the Walter Hoerauf? He's my sister's husband." I do and did. We often attended the Hoerauf family reunions when my mother Erna was visiting. Both Walter and his wife have since died as well as Walter's brothers Emil and Albert. I replied that through marriages several generations back we are related.<br />
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The father of Walter and his siblings was Louis Hoerauf and his father was Michael Mishel Hoerauf. One other son of Michael was Jacob who married Christina Saxowsky, my grandfather's sister. With this conversation as a motivator, I looked deeper into the Hoerauf family and added some information to the Saxowsky Family Tree website. This website is password protected but open to anyone who asks for the password.<br />
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Again the research brought me back to memories of events and people of my past, many whom I did not know at the time was related or connected even in some remote manner. Neighbors and friends who were special have now become more special even in another way.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-52606280190778418172014-01-03T22:06:00.002-08:002014-01-03T22:06:22.924-08:00Grandma Cookies<br />
Laura Ingalls Wilder writes of Christmas in one of her book. I recall that one of the previous gifts was an orange. How different Christmas gifts are now when many children receive Wiis and iPods. Yet parts are the same even in the differences.<br />
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The making of Grandma cookies is reserved for Christmas time. They earned their name because only Dad's mother, my grandmother, ever made them. In my small world. <br />
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So in a effort to continue the tradition of Pfeffer Nuss (pepper nuts) I create a couple batches before Christmas. On the wall hangs a large wooden bowl in which grandma probably mixed the ingredients with a wooden spoon like the one in the crock by the stove. I, however, use a KitchenAid mixer. I don't remember seeing her drop the thick cookie batter onto the cookie sheets but whereas I drop the batter from a spoon she might have rolled the batter into smooth balls. Her cookies were smoother.<br />
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After the baking and cooling process, it's time for the chocolate frosting. The difference here is that she dropped the cookies into the bowl of chocolate and coated all surfaces including her hands. I dip the top of the cookie into the chocolate and knock off the excess with a spoon. While licking the chocolate from my fingers is a great joy, I don't find the same joy in emerging my hands completely in the chocolate.<br />
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Baking is both a joy of the moment and a connection to the past, but eating them is not recommended for a slender waistline and so the variety we enjoyed as children are not on today's agenda. Sugar cookies with colored powdered sugar frosting and sparkling candies continue to grace the kitchen around Christmas as well as a batch of gingerbreads. Others come rarely and exist mostly in memories.<br />
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Each Christmas will start a new tradition which will last far into the future. One we offer is a braided bread with strands of three types of bread, white, whole wheat and rye. Looking back fifty years from now our descendants will talk about grandma's braided breads. As well as grandpa's grandma cookies.<br />
Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-1227791419618241382013-11-27T22:25:00.001-08:002013-11-27T22:29:37.992-08:00Bread for Thanksgiving DayIt's hard to imagine how Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in 1621, the traditional first Thanksgiving, or 150 years ago when President Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving and Praise. Today, the day before Thanksgiving Day, thoughts of past Thanksgivings come to mind. In particular, the thoughts come as I pull down the big wooden butter or bread bowl of my grandparents and maybe their grandparents to make bread. Certainly this was one task common to many years back.<br />
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The recipe would be similar to that of our ancestors a century ago; yeast, water, flour, oil, a sweetener and a bit of salt, maybe some special flavorings. The yeast, probably Fleischmann's, a newly formed New York company trying to create a dependable yeast, would be similar to the yeast by the same name that we use today. Today's flour is probably more refined than that of a century ago although at times we grind our own flour which is no more refined than any time in the past. Bee's honey and milk from the cow would be similar now and then. Oil may have been lard rendered from the fat of a pig in the past.<br />
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The process is different although both doughs ended up in the same wooden bowl to rest and rise. The bowl is stained and scratched after decades of use; the edges soft and pitted with age. The larger and perhaps older sister bowl still hanging on the wall has a metal strap holding a crack from splitting further. <br />
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The next stage of the bread making is as old and universal as time and space itself, kneading on a board with our bare hands, folding and pushing down, and folding and pushing again and again. Finally the shaping, placing in pans and baking. Fortunately for us today's oven is regulated by a thermostat and starts by merely turning a knob or pushing a button, which allows the baker to move to another task instead of stoking the fire with coal or wood and trying to maintain a uniform heat.<br />
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I would have loved to share the next moment with our ancestors as they cut a slice of fresh bread or tear off a piece, placing it in their mouths and savoring the taste. Perhaps they too reflected on their ancestors of a century earlier. For now the bowl is back on the top pantry shelf and the bread is ready for the celebration of thanks tomorrow.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-19042833408393347312013-09-11T09:39:00.001-07:002013-09-11T14:00:26.991-07:00Fall CanningTucked in a far corner of the basement is a little room lined on opposite sides with shelves reaching to the ceiling. On the shelves sat rows of jars, some full, some empty, some quarts and pints, some smaller with jellies and jams, some larger with pickles. In our farmhouse there was an additional root cellar dug out beyond the regular basement which was cool, dark and had a dirt floor. Against one wall a crib held the potatoes for the year. In another corner was a box of carrots covered with straw.<br />
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Root cellars were standard equipment in early North Dakota homes, and fall was the season for canning. Actually everything revolved around winter; spring, summer and fall were for planting, growing, gathering and preserving food for the winter. Most of the food was grown in family gardens but some foods that didn't grow locally were ordered and purchased in large boxes from the local grocer. Fruits like peaches, pears and plums were examples.<br />
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Now we are 1500 miles from North Dakota and a half century later but still canning food for the winter. We picked the peaches from a local farm; the pears and apples from our trees; beans from the local fruit stand and tomatoes from the garden. Most garden products typically are blanched and frozen these days and spices and herbs are dried for storage.<br />
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Water boils on the stove. Peaches or tomatoes are heated so that they peel easily and then sliced into wedges. The jars are washed in hot soapy water, rinsed and filled with the wedges which were waiting in a bath of cool water. Rims are wiped clean for a good seal, boiling water, maybe with a little bit of sugar is poured to fill the jar. A new cover is dipped in boiling water and secured on the jars with bands. These then bathe in boiling water for 15 minutes after which they rest and cool down before they are labeled and join the rows of jars in the root cellar.<br />
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This may be a far cry from what happens in most contemporary homes and a poor facsimile of what happened more than a half century ago, but it is here. It's a connection to the past, a family event and way of securing good food with no preservatives. It's part of who we are and what we consider valuable. Good eating.<br />
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Did I mention the sightings of mice and the evidence that mice were in the root cellar tucked away in the corner?Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-90655855686449938322013-03-27T12:22:00.001-07:002013-04-22T08:00:49.515-07:00Threshing DayTypically the day had the potential of being a hot one, in the nineties or possibly the hundreds. Even during the morning chores there was a sense of excitement looking to the south and watching between tasks. It was thrashing day and Uncle Karl, actually Dad's uncle, was going to come from his place a mile south of our farm through the pastures with his low-slung metal codded tires Minneapolis Moline and this thrashing machine.<br />
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Once he was in the yard he would walk around the thrasher, checking each gear and chain making certain that everything was probably greased and oiled. The slow running exposed chain spit the oil that came from the long-nosed oilcan as they quickly turned over the gears. Each bearing in which the staffs turned was lubricated with grease forced down a small pipe by the tightening of a grease-cap. After the cap hit it limit, the cap was removed, refilled and replaced on its home ready to force more grease into the bearings.<br />
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I was quite young and there was no task for me other than to bring water and sandwiches to the workers so I wasn't on site to be fully involved. Dad scooped up the bundles of oats, typically, and dumped them into the wagon from which someone pitch-forked them into the throat of the thrasher. Uncle Karl's tractor sat in front of the thrasher with a very long belt to run the thrasher. The straw blew out the back through a large pipe which could be manually adjusted to carefully create a stack of straw. The grain itself came out another pipe on the side of the thrasher into awaiting pickups. Oats was not fun to stand in so I seldom would climb into the pickup to play in the grain.<br />
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Besides the work of thrashing, many stories are told about the meals that the farmer wives put together for the thrashing crews. I can't say that I remember any significant events surrounding those meals which in our case only included Karl, Dad, grandpa and my uncle Heinie. While the same crew worked all three farms I was allowed only to visit the fields when they thrashed on our farm.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-56380906970531471192011-10-02T06:45:00.000-07:002011-10-02T07:09:29.105-07:00Games"Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief,"<br /><br />Is this even politically correct now?<br /><br />"Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief."<br /><br />As a child I never wanted to be a chief; I wasn't even an Indian much less a chief.<br /><br />We would recite this lines when we got dressed and counted the buttons on our clothes: button one, rich man; button two, poor man; and so on. Or if noticed that someone had lots of buttons, we would go through the same verse.<br /><br />If you had more than eight buttons, you'd start over again, but I remember almost never starting over and often stopping in the first line. Girls had a better chance of getting into the second line.<br /><br />WIth no television and limited access, our heads were filled with little verses and mind games. Cousin Cheryl came with a verse during one of her rare childhood visits from MInneapolis or California. It was designed to appear as a speech:<br /><br />"Ladies and gentlemen, horses and mules,<br />I hate to tell you, but you're all darn fools.<br />I come before you to stand behind you...<br />Admission free, pay at the door<br />Grab a chair and sit on the floor!"<br /><br />That's all I remember but I found this version:<br /><br />"Ladies and gentlemen, horses and mules<br />Cross-eyed mosquitos and bold-legged fools<br />I've come before you to stand behind you<br />To tell you something I know nothing about<br />Next Thursday, which is Good Friday<br />We'll have a father's meeting for mother's only<br />Admission free, pay at the door<br />Grab a chair and sit on the floor!"<br /><br />From the third grade which was at the end of the hall on the second floor of our school and was designed more as a foyer to the fire escape at the rear of the building, I remember:<br /><br />"Christopher went<br />When he was sent,<br />And came when he was told,<br />And all together<br />Whatever the weather<br />Was brave, bright and bold.<br />When he was nine, or maybe ten,<br />He traveled the world again and again<br />With a cape, a cap and a fountain pen."<br /><br />It's probably the only poem I remember.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-14639517867752338752011-08-25T22:20:00.000-07:002011-08-25T23:15:57.399-07:00Crab Apple TreeThroughout my summer day I pass by a tree filled with tasty ripe but tart pie cherries. It is simple to reach up, grab a couple and eat the tantalizing miniature orbs. Propelling the seeds across the lawn is a part of the enjoyment even though I'm reminded each time of their potential by the many seedlings in that area.
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<br />Some fifty years ago about the same time of the year, late August or early September I would repeat the same moves with some modifications. I would be on a tractor driving to and from the fields towing a wagon either filled with grain from the combine or silage for the silo. If the route took me pass the chokecherry bushes, I would load up on the berries that turned my mouth blue and my throat would, in a sense, choke. Hence, the name of the berry. Later in the season after emptying the silage from the wagon, I would detour under the crab apple tree and grab enough to keep me busy nibbling while driving to the field. They were so tart that they had no other use. But I loved the diversion.
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<br />Not many fruit trees survived the North Dakota winters, in fact my favorite crab apple tree had been joined by several plum and pie apple trees at their planting but stood essentially alone as I ate of it. Our Ziegler grandparents enjoyed adventuring into new territory with fruit as they had several apple trees and in the 50's a pear tree that actually produced pears. On the other side of the garden were patches of raspberries and strawberries that were the envy of my childhood. I don't know that the pear tree has survived these 50 years.
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<br />There are stories of man who wandered the West sowing apple seeds and who became known as Johnny Appleseed. His good fortune apparently didn't infect our part of North Dakota.Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-82022326417733426822011-03-22T17:02:00.000-07:002011-03-22T17:42:13.514-07:00Churning butterA wandering glance around our kitchen took my eyes momentarily to an old butter churn; the large glass jar has a slight crack. My wondering why we kept this dust collector was immediately overshadowed by a question of who used it and when and even where.<div><br /></div><div>There's something in the rears of my struggling mind that says Mom may have made our butter at one time, after all we were on a dairy farm and always milked cows. Before the years when we were selling raw milk, the milk was separated into skim milk and cream, the source of butter. I know that Mom's mother made their butter.</div><div><br /></div><div>Walking into grandma's house always smelled like a farm house, but then it was a farm house. The smell might have been stronger here than in other farm houses because they separated their milk in the house. It was the only heated building on their farm. </div><div><br /></div><div>Passing through the first entrance gave one no warmth from the winter cold as the first room was more of a porch, where one would leave your coat that had brushed against the cows and the boots that followed the pigs to their feed. A single step up and through a second door on your left put you into the big main room of the house. It was the almost "everything" room. Straight ahead was a second room which was the "living" room furnished with a couch, a couple easy chairs, a old ornate china closet and a pump organ which later was replaced by a piano. Uncle Lenhart like to tickle the keyboards. </div><div><br /></div><div>Off the living room was a small master bedroom, and years later a bathroom was added in one corner. Off to the right in the main room were doors to the upstairs and downstairs and a cooking area. The wood cook stove served to heat the house and prepare the meals. As the house was modernized an electric stove was added beside the wood stove and the hand pump was replaced with faucets for cold and hot running water.</div><div><br /></div><div>I never got over 12 years old, before grandpa died. He had a big overstuffed rocking chair by the window just to the left of the main entrance. Tall and lanky, as I remember him, and seldom a smile. He had a cane, as I remember, that he'd try to hook us with. Boy, that memory is vague. He always seemed old, but then he was 60 when I was born, and 72 when he died.</div><div><br /></div><div>During my childhood, the neighbors still gathered together in the late summer for threshing. There's a story about grandma when the threshing crew was at her house and she was responsible for feeding them. I'm sure that the food was home grown and cooked, which included baked bread and homemade butter. As the crew gathered around the table filling their plates, grandma had forgot to put butter on the table and so when one of the crew not seeing any butter, called out, "Please, pass the butter," she was very embarrassed.</div><div><br /></div><div>So a quick glance around the room took me back some sixty years. And the butter churn continues to gather dust until it instills another memory even though it's owner is still not known.</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-6714282326644088502011-02-19T13:39:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:55:06.348-08:00Picture of Mom and Dad's weddingSomewhere in the flatlands of Wyoming is a third cousin with the name of Gary Weisz, Weisz being the birth name of our mother's mother. As member of my generation, he has retired and finding time to do things like dig through the genealogy of the Weisz family. One of his reference points is the consolidation of names and dates that I had gathered from my mother and put on the Internet as a reference. I am so grateful for his efforts because I have not had a chance to upgrade my data for about a decade and the information is getting stale.<div><br /></div><div>During one of his monthly phone calls last week he referred to a picture of a wedding party picture on the steps of St Johns church in Hebron. A couple days ago I received a print of that picture with attached names. It was a picture with Erna and Erwin as the bride and groom, with two attendants on each side and the parents on a higher step behind them. I don't know that I had ever seen this picture and was treasure to receive.</div><div><br /></div><div>A week earlier he sent an invitation to the Weisz family reunion in Kaylor, South Dakota, in June 2011. It is a great opportunity to catch up with what is happening in the Weisz family or get to know them for the first time. You'll also meet some Zieglers there.</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-91001842330509732612011-02-09T17:01:00.000-08:002011-02-09T17:17:32.331-08:00First crocuses of the springIt's hardly past the first week of February, but this year in the foothills on the edge of the Willamette Valley the first colors of the year are peaking through the underbrush. They're yellow, these first bloomers, unlike the wild purple ones on the north side of the hills of the western North Dakota prairies.<div><br /></div><div>There's a fondness for crocus in my being. Maybe this came from grandma Sax, Marie, who seemed to have some on her table soon as the first ones appeared. Maybe this came from Mom who would drive me to the more prolific hill almost a mile from the house before I was grown enough to either walk that distance or drive a vehicle. We'd pick them when we went to get the cows in for milking, which, when I was in grade school, was as soon as we got off the school bus in the afternoon.</div><div><br /></div><div>Conveniently the crocus would bloom around the first of May so they were available to put in the May basket that I'd put on the doorstep and ring the doorbell for Mom. I have no idea from where the tradition came, but after I rang the bell I'd run away and Mom would come out chasing me, catch me and give me a kiss. Well, at least that happened once and stuck in my mind as annual forever. Maybe this is the memory or emotion in the back of my mind that sparks the romantic part of me when the crocuses show color in the spring.</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-19419927376937745302010-07-25T16:49:00.000-07:002010-07-25T17:15:28.876-07:00Electricity and phonesThe questions asked were: Did we have phone lines and poles when we were kids? Did we have electric lines and poles? Which went underground and when?<div><br /></div><div>The short partial answers are yes and yes and I'm not sure!</div><div><br /></div><div>There was a telephone coop with farmers as members who would follow the lines after a storm and fix the broken lines by themselves. Someone in the coop had a set of pole climbing spikes. One member would collect the fees and pay the bills; Henry Saxowsky Sr. was one who did that and so was our uncle Lenhart Ziegler. It could have been two different coops although one lived less the a mile east of our farm and the latter lived about two miles west and north.</div><div><br /></div><div>Members of the coops were on party lines meaning that when a phone rang there was a unique ring for each member and everyone could hear the ring and rubber (listen) in to all conversations. Our Saxowsky grandparents were on our party line and the Ziegler grandparents were not. Phone numbers were four digits, 5074 was ours and our unique ring was a short and two longs.</div><div><br /></div><div>REA (Rural Electric Administration) subsided the construction of poles and lines and brought electricity to the farmers in the late forties. Our farm had a gasoline generator in the basement with a bank of batteries which were charged periodically. The generator had to be started when we ironed clothes. During the transition days, when a light switch was turned on, the bulb would glow very brightly for a brief moment and the burst with the much higher voltage.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Ziegler farm (our mother's childhood farm) had a tower with a wind charger on top. The location by the house as you entered the yard made this obvious. The Saxowsky original farm, our father's childhood home had a wind charger on a tower behind the house and was easily forgotten.</div><div><br /></div><div>When electricity came to our farm, the wires beyond transformer were buried from the "yard pole" in the middle of the yard somewhere between the barn and house. A light fixture to light the yard set at the top of the pole. When our farm started to sell raw milk in the late 50's, a backup generator was set by the pole and run with a tractor during power outages to keep the milk refrigerated. </div><div><br /></div><div>While electricity came relatively late to western rural North Dakota, it was in the 1980's when many of our members finally were connected to electricity around Trapper Creek, Alaska. Everything is relative.</div><div><br /></div><div>Somewhere there are documents that would give dates for each of these events but for now it has to be what we remember.</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-50149529936380394852010-01-27T16:40:00.000-08:002010-01-27T16:53:48.765-08:00Aunt Amy diedMost of us didn't know Aunt Amy or her niece Karen Evans. Karen is the granddaughter of Gilbert Saxowsky by Randi. She and her husband, Michael, live in northern Illinois.<div><br /></div><div>Karen just reported: "I just wanted to let you all know that our dear friend and Aunt Amy has gone to Heaven."</div><div><br /></div><div>I just found an email from Karen dated August 25, 2008, asking for prayers for Michael's aunt Amy. This email reminded me that the world is full of wonderful people.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit; "><div id="yiv979443304"><div id="yiv1390245381"><div>Hello everyone,</div><div>I have a favor to ask. A very wonderful woman that is my great friend and my Mikes' aunt has cancer and is very sick. I am asking that you would please, please pray for her and send out as many powerful thoughts for her that you can.</div><div>She is truly a beautiful soul and a wonderful mother to two great kids, Neil and Brook. She has her husband John who has been her rock!</div><div> </div><div>I know that there is no stronger power than prayer and love! We would all need this love in times like this and I know that all of you my family and friends are the best and strongest people I know! Thank you all for being so awesome!</div><div> </div><div>I am setting up a email for her in the hopes that everyone who gets this will send her a prayer and a quick word of support. In talking to some people who are in the know about these things,I have learned that the power of prayer, love and positive thoughts are enough to conquer these grave ills!</div><div> </div><div>I know most of you don't know this beautiful woman but I can guarantee you would love her if you did!! So that is all I am asking for, I know together we can take care of and heal each other, so please if you would pray for her to be healed and please just send her a quick word of support and please pass this on to everyone you know wether they know me or not, thank you and God Bless!!!!!<br /></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(191, 0, 95); "></span> </div><div>Thanks guys,</div><div>I love you all!</div><div> </div><div>Karen</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; ">It is good to let wonderful people know that they are not alone, even when walking through the dark valleys. You can use those venue for those comments.</span><br /></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-89475550062857276282010-01-24T21:20:00.000-08:002010-01-24T21:31:21.815-08:00Binders and Draft HorsesIn a recent email from my sister, she wrote about the moment when our parents decided that it was time to buy a swathers. She referenced the machine to be replaced as ????. The ???? represented a binder, a machine pulled by a tractor, that cut the nearly ripen grain, gathered the stalks together until there were enough to bind into a bundle with a twine. It was the mechanism the tied the twine that failed so frequently that they decided to buy the next generation machinery.<div><br /></div><div>Draft horses? Surely draft horses could be considered a common symbol of our ancestors upon their arrival on the farmland of the Dakotas. I only remember grandpa Ziegler and Lenhart using horses in my days. I do remember horses at the Saxowskys but never did I see them used.</div><div><br /></div><div>When did we get our first tractor? Was it a John Deere A or B?</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440645772034074353.post-53743495082886434332010-01-24T20:58:00.000-08:002010-01-24T21:14:01.307-08:00The Trip to the YellowstoneIt probably was 1952 then we went to the Yellowstone. Without digging out the photographs, I remember George running down the gravel road with the security of a beginning walker. He was probably two and a half years old. The other option is 1951 when George was one and a half and would have been much less secure on his newfound feet.<div><br /></div><div>That would make me eight, which is fitting considering that I remember a fight with a boy we visited in Greeley, Colorado on that trip. The family was that of the son of George Treiber. I suspect we stopped by the Black Hills on the way south although I think there were more than one trip to the Black Hills in our youth. The Yellowstone came after the stop in Greeley. The stay there was probably one night in is a small cabin and the rumor was that a bear was digging through garbage cans that night. </div><div><br /></div><div>I suspect that a final stop was in the Roosevelt Park and badlands where the picture of George walking down the road was taken. </div><div><br /></div><div>A final memory is that grandma Sax painted a picture copying one of the slides Dad took on the trip. She projected it on a paper on the refrigerator where she traced it. Do you remember the "pasted on" face on the painting? Who was that? Do you remember the bears eating from the car? And the donkeys, or was that another trip?</div>Denvy and Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558482155992782488noreply@blogger.com0