Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

Here's another old picture. A really, really, REALLY old picture. I am soon going to run out of old pictures to post for this Throwback deal because I have no scanner. Hmmm...I will have to ask for one for my birthday. I wish I'd stayed this cute! I have also realized that I have neglected to blog about the obvious; milk. On a dairy farm it's what brings in the green, as it were. So I shall discuss milk in my next blog.

Here in blogger land it seems to be customary among some circles to have a Throwback Thursday, where you blog about the past...however long ago it may have been. I shall attempt this off and on as I go. Here is a picture from long ago, where I grew up in Northern California. Many folks think, when I tell them I am from N CA, that I come from San Fransisco or thereabouts, but no, my hometown is much further north than that even. San Fran is a a drive south of several hours. Anyway, this picture (and I am not sure of the quality here) is of the house I grew up in. It is pretty much surrounded by Douglas Fir trees with the occasional alder thrown in for variety. The willow tree is hiding the front window. The front part of the house was built by a bachelor logger who first owned the property back in the '40s I believe. The back half of it was added on later by my dad and uncle, who finished it off for their mother to live in. She bought the property originally. The house is covered i...