Foto Friday

Foto Friday

Hugh Russell building a haystack

Mom took photos in the late '50s and early '60s of the cattle and gardens and this one of dad building a haystack. This post needs to come with an essay on "how to put up hay" but that may have to wait. But the hot summer days like we're having now always bring back good memories of helping dad in the hay field.

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July 4 picnic Lakeman place

Taken July 4, year unknown but between 1957 and 1964 on the Lakeman Place. Dad is in the photo on the left but I'm not sure who the others are. The 1957 blue and white Ford Fairlane is in the background. I learned to drive in this car as well as the 1960 red Ford pickup. We moved from the Lakeman place to the Miller place in March, 1964.

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Hugh Russell

This isn't the best quality picture but mom captured an action photo here. (It's large so you can see dad in the tree.) This was on the Miller Place about 1967 and our rope swing had broken. All spring Dad was too busy to put up another one. His cousins, Verleen and Fay Sams (Fay was a man's name in the last century) and their kids visited us one day and Fay convinced dad it was time to put up the swing. (I think that is the back of Fay's head at the bottom of the photo.) So here is dad, age about 55, climbing a tree and tying a rope to what looks like a branch with the outer limb broken off. The deal with rope swings is that you leave the swing up until it rots off because of rain and snow, then replace it. The seat is a 1 by 4 or 6 or whatever, with notches carved into the sides, usually by a drill since this leaves a nice half-circle into which fits the rope. Usually the seat remained in the swing even when we weren't using it.

We had two rope swing locations on the Miller Place (not at the same time). This was just west of the house. I remember swinging here and looking at the orange tiger lilies that were along the edge of the house and in the spring the peonies bloomed further north along the sidewalk.

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Niemoth grandparents with grandchildren

Art and Bertha (Noffke) Niemoth with Bonnie, Mardell, Sharon and James

Grandma and Grandpa Niemoth lived on a farm and Jim and his sisters enjoyed spending weeks there in the summer.

I don't usually post photos from my husband's family but thought I would post this one. We found it as we looked for photos for his tribute video.

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My sister and I are going through mom's photo albums - about 30 or so of them - and I want to share some on Foto Friday. The photos in the albums we're working on now were taken in the 1970s and 80s. Photos in the 70s were taken when we lived on mom's old home place in Loup County.

Mom loved it when her kids and grandkids came to visit so what better way to start what I hope will be a weekly feature than with a photo them (as of April 24, 1977). Of course we are missing Melisa, (1973-74). Anyway. Here they are: Kendall, Cami, Amy, Lori, Travis, Yvonne, Tara, Jerold, Debra, Joy.