Dad was a hard working, good father.  He believed in keeping the commandments. We always had a very large garden. One of our chores was to weed the garden. It wasn’t our favorite…

One summer Fred and Alane were riding in the back of the pickup as Dad checked things out on the Block 89 farm.  Fred who was most likely 5 or…

If we caught Mom eating candy and we asked her what she was eating she would tell us that she was just chewing on her tongue.

Gary playing tooth fairy for Emily by giving her all his extra change, which was quite a lot.  He apparently thought Mom and Dad had not been generous enough.

How Mom and Dad would wait to pull out the good desserts after they had put us kids to bed!

Carol Jean remembers the year she helped Dad in the shop overhauling the combines.  Learned a lot about tools that year (and a little about swearing).

Grandpa Ostler had VW bug.  We loved it!  One summer Fred and Alane traveled to Utah with Grandpa and Grandma in the “slug bug.”  It wasn’t working right and would…

Our grandparents (especially Grandpa Ostler and Grandpa Lybbert) had specialty treats.  Grandpa Ostler loved Black Jack gum and Grandpa Lybbert always had little pink lozenges that were wintergreen flavored.  

Mom used to love to play the piano and sing.  We all loved hearing her sing during the day.  Later in our lives we found an old recording that we…