Jon was born on November 22, 1954; Verlon in August of 1950 with Tim and Carolyn having been born in between those two. Carolyn shows some of the anguish of no longer being the baby of the family. We stayed out at Elaine's folks when she and Jon came home from the hospital. She enjoyed climbing on the piano bench and sitting down hard on the lower keys. The boys got new cowboy boots for Christmas and were quite proud of them. Even Elaine and I got in the spirit of the season but we often wondered how we did it. We both picked up any opportunity to earn a little extra cash and always enjoyed help from our folks taking care of the kids.
Elaine even carried a Stadia Board and walked around the edges of level wheat fields while pregnant with Jon. I would take the readings with a transit, plot up the fields, then use a plainemeter to run the acreage for farmers in Government programs. Clarence Schmidt and I sawed up Hedge post, dug toilet holes and painted the outhouses for a rural school before we started doing landscape work. We worked on an evening and weekend basis with Nebraska Nurseries out of Lincoln and used Dad's farm truck to bring out balled and burlaped trees, etc. We now recognize how much help we got from our folks, siblings and others.
Jon was born on November 22, 1954; Verlon in August of 1950 with Tim and Carolyn having been born in between those two. Carolyn shows some of the anguish of no longer being the baby of the family. We stayed out at Elaine's folks when she and Jon came home from the hospital. She enjoyed climbing on the piano bench and sitting down hard on the lower keys. The boys got new cowboy boots for Christmas and were quite proud of them. Even Elaine and I got in the spirit of the season but we often wondered how we did it. We both picked up any opportunity to earn a little extra cash and always enjoyed help from our folks taking care of the kids.
Elaine even carried a Stadia Board and walked around the edges of level wheat fields while pregnant with Jon. I would take the readings with a transit, plot up the fields, then use a plainemeter to run the acreage for farmers in Government programs. Clarence Schmidt and I sawed up Hedge post, dug toilet holes and painted the outhouses for a rural school before we started doing landscape work. We worked on an evening and weekend basis with Nebraska Nurseries out of Lincoln and used Dad's farm truck to bring out balled and burlaped trees, etc. We now recognize how much help we got from our folks, siblings and others.
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