Comments for This Is Me http://towo.wordpress.com A Father-Son Blog Collabo Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on My Birthday by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/my-birthday/#comment-167 mary a. kaufman Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:33:24 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-167 I have a few regrets as old age carries me into even older age. If I were to make a list of regrets, high on the list would be: 01. Too damn busy trying to survive life on a "partnership" dairy farm to fully enjoy my children during their early years. 02. Too damn busy later on with trying to recover from all those years trying to survive life on a dairyfarm, which made it difficult for me to know and to enjoy my grandchildren, but I'm sure proud of each and every one of you. Love, Mom, Grandmom I have a few regrets as old age carries me into even older age. If I were to make a list of regrets, high on the list would be: 01. Too damn busy trying to survive life on a “partnership” dairy farm to fully enjoy my children during their early years. 02. Too damn busy later on with trying to recover from all those years trying to survive life on a dairyfarm, which made it difficult for me to know and to enjoy my grandchildren, but I’m sure proud of each and every one of you. Love, Mom, Grandmom

]]> Comment on Cutting Wood by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/cutting-wood/#comment-166 mary a. kaufman Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:17:07 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-166 Clint, that tale certainly caused me to remember winter days when a wood pile was the main source heat in a huge barn of a house in which your father matured to manhood. I think I would have liked to have watched its demolition when it was razed to the ground to make way for a new structure that your father's friend and neighbor Jim ... can't remember his last name ... built for himself and his wife. Your grandfather Carl came close to laming himself one winter when the chainsaw slipped and bit into his knee. Did you know that one time he came into the house with his scalp laid open by a bullet from someone shooting during deer season, and another time fell from the top of the hay track inside the barn? Fortunately, he hit a beam on his way down breaking his arm but keeping him from killing himself. More than one farmer has been killed having his clothing caught in the "take off bar" of the tractor, or whatever its called. Your grandfather was able to salvage enough of his clothing to allow him to walk home with at least a small amount of modesty. I came close to fainting. Clint, that tale certainly caused me to remember winter days when a wood pile was the main source heat in a huge barn of a house in which your father matured to manhood. I think I would have liked to have watched its demolition when it was razed to the ground to make way for a new structure that your father’s friend and neighbor Jim … can’t remember his last name … built for himself and his wife. Your grandfather Carl came close to laming himself one winter when the chainsaw slipped and bit into his knee. Did you know that one time he came into the house with his scalp laid open by a bullet from someone shooting during deer season, and another time fell from the top of the hay track inside the barn? Fortunately, he hit a beam on his way down breaking his arm but keeping him from killing himself. More than one farmer has been killed having his clothing caught in the “take off bar” of the tractor, or whatever its called. Your grandfather was able to salvage enough of his clothing to allow him to walk home with at least a small amount of modesty. I came close to fainting.

]]> Comment on Cow magnets by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/cow-magnets/#comment-163 mary a. kaufman Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:39:09 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-163 Hey, Carl, Let's hear from you now and then. Surely, you have some memories of farm life worth passing on, things of which I have little memory but worth writing about. Love, Mom Hey, Carl, Let’s hear from you now and then. Surely, you have some memories of farm life worth passing on, things of which I have little memory but worth writing about. Love, Mom

]]> Comment on Cow magnets by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/cow-magnets/#comment-162 mary a. kaufman Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:59:32 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-162 To my favorite youngest son, Carl. I've read "Cow Magnets" before but never zeroed in on the part of stealing a cud from a healthy, contende cow and placing it in the mouth of a sick cow. How did I live on a farm with your father for almost thirty years and never have known that? Thought I knew just about every thing there was to know about cows. Really, you should add more stories to your blogsite. To my favorite youngest son, Carl. I’ve read “Cow Magnets” before but never zeroed in on the part of stealing a cud from a healthy, contende cow and placing it in the mouth of a sick cow. How did I live on a farm with your father for almost thirty years and never have known that? Thought I knew just about every thing there was to know about cows. Really, you should add more stories to your blogsite.

]]> Comment on Cow magnets by Kid sister Bette http://towo.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/cow-magnets/#comment-161 Kid sister Bette Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:26:58 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-161 Justin, you caught me. Your dad is always good for a story to enlighten the reader; the touches of whimsy interspersed in the narrative give proof to the smile he tries to hide in the telling. He's not only The Old Wise One, he's also The Old Witty One. Justin, you caught me. Your dad is always good for a story to enlighten the reader; the touches of whimsy interspersed in the narrative give proof to the smile he tries to hide in the telling. He’s not only The Old Wise One, he’s also The Old Witty One.

]]> Comment on With Good Paper by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/with-good-paper/#comment-158 mary a. kaufman Wed, 21 May 2008 01:24:10 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-158 Carl, your words, 'it may not sound like much but there is not higher honor for an ordinary veteran . . . caught my attention. Not that your entire description of a veterans's final "send off" was not riveting, I somehow latched on to those few words. I just could not help comparing the reasons for why our young men and women were sent into service back in the early forties—your father among them— compared to why our young men and women are dying today in Iraq. I wonder: in another sixty eight years and more, will those who died in Iraq receive the same honors as those veterans of World War II receive today? I hope so. Carl, your words, ‘it may not sound like much but there is not higher honor for an ordinary veteran . . . caught my attention. Not that your entire description of a veterans’s final “send off” was not riveting, I somehow latched on to those few words. I just could not help comparing the reasons for why our young men and women were sent into service back in the early forties—your father among them— compared to why our young men and women are dying today in Iraq. I wonder: in another sixty eight years and more, will those who died in Iraq receive the same honors as those veterans of World War II receive today? I hope so.

]]> Comment on Once Removed by Gary http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/removed/#comment-148 Gary Mon, 05 May 2008 13:52:49 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/removed/#comment-148 Website should be up by end of month. Okay, here's the one I want figured out: Someone (we'll call her Eileen) who is a sister to someone(we'll call her Mary) marries someone (we'll call him Jim) and has 2 kids. She divorces him and later marries his brother (we'll call him Roy - this would be very biblical if the first husband had died) and has 2 more kids. So, as far as I can tell. Mary and Eileen are still sisters and the kids are still all first cousins to Mary (and Jean, Bette, and Bob)'s kids, etc, etc, etc. And the two kids from marriage are brother and sister and the two kids from marriage 2 are brother and sister. What I can't figure out is, are the kids from marriage 1 and marriage 2 just brothers and sisters, or are they cousins 1/2 time removed, or even brothers and sisters once removed? Or maybe second siblings? Someone in college once said she wanted to do my geneology for a class she was taken. It only took me 2 minutes to convince her to go elsewhere. Website should be up by end of month. Okay, here’s the one I want figured out:

Someone (we’ll call her Eileen) who is a sister to someone(we’ll call her Mary) marries someone (we’ll call him Jim) and has 2 kids. She divorces him and later marries his brother (we’ll call him Roy – this would be very biblical if the first husband had died) and has 2 more kids.

So, as far as I can tell. Mary and Eileen are still sisters and the kids are still all first cousins to Mary (and Jean, Bette, and Bob)’s kids, etc, etc, etc. And the two kids from marriage are brother and sister and the two kids from marriage 2 are brother and sister. What I can’t figure out is, are the kids from marriage 1 and marriage 2 just brothers and sisters, or are they cousins 1/2 time removed, or even brothers and sisters once removed? Or maybe second siblings?

Someone in college once said she wanted to do my geneology for a class she was taken. It only took me 2 minutes to convince her to go elsewhere.

]]> Comment on Introduction – Read this first. by Dad (This is me) http://towo.wordpress.com/about/#comment-142 Dad (This is me) Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:57:46 +0000 #comment-142 This is me. Yes, Like Barb Kaufman. Sandee Scott from Brooklyn PA? Carl This is me. Yes, Like Barb Kaufman. Sandee Scott from Brooklyn PA? Carl

]]> Comment on How I met your mother by mary a. kaufman http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/how-i-met-your-mother/#comment-141 mary a. kaufman Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:48:27 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/how-i-met-your-mother/#comment-141 How could I not have commented on that story? We both lucked out that day: you got what has to be one of the worlds greatest wives---and mothers---and I got me one hell of a wonderful daughter-in-law. Love ya both. How could I not have commented on that story? We both lucked out that day: you got what has to be one of the worlds greatest wives—and mothers—and I got me one hell of a wonderful daughter-in-law. Love ya both.

]]> Comment on Hickory Sticks by dick http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/hickory-sticks/#comment-139 dick Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:35:07 +0000 http://towo.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/hickory-sticks/#comment-139 what ever happened too peg leg or we used to call bicycle anderson he was not 70 he lost his leg in a rail road accident what ever happened too peg leg or we used to call bicycle anderson he was not 70 he lost his leg in a rail road accident

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