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Dear Folks: June 19, 1989
Dear Folks, In case you ever get nostalgic for the Peaceful Life in the Country, consider the following scenario:
Your large, friendly, and, let’s face it, very dumb dog decides at 3 AM to play bouncy games with a fuzzy black and white visitor he finds in the yard. Ten seconds later, the dog is rolling in agony on your best Persian [...]
Dear Folks: May 20, 1989
Dear Folks, It’s Saturday night. I just officially collapsed after two days in the garden, came in and washed off the top several layers of dirt, looked for something I could do sitting down, and remembered it was time to write you.
We just had our week of spring; now it’s summer. A week of spring is a standard joke in New [...]
Dear Folks: April 23, 1989
Dear Folks: March 19, 1989
Dear Folks, As you can see, I had a birthday last week. The picture is from the card Sylvia drew for me, which said “Happy Birthday to Ewe!” inside. Somehow Poppy the cat got in there with all the sheep — I think Sylvia just likes to draw Poppy, who is definitely one of the major characters of this farm.
In the [...]
Dear Folks: February 19, 1989
Dear Folks, It’s a bright, sunny day, thermometer all the way up to 22 though it’s not even noon yet. It’s been below zero the past two nights, so today seems balmy. The household is hopping. Anna’s daughter Andrea and son-in-law Kevin are here for the weekend; so is Sylvia’s mother Joyce. Andrea and Kevin have brought along their dog Tess, [...]
