On my previous blog, I said Richard was on the right. I still haven't got doing this pictures down yet. He is in the bottom photo.

Yes, this is me milking Babe. I was the only one who milked her. Your dad had asked me one day if I knew how to milk a cow. He knew good and well that I did because I always helped my dad with milking. "It was a trick question." A couple of days later a guy in a pickup with a cow comes up with your dad following behind. It turns out he got her real cheap because she had been a runt. She was a little Jersey cow. She gave lots of rich cream. I helped fatten us all up by making ice cream and cream puffs. I would make a big batch of icecream in the freezer. We didn't have an icecream maker. When you are making icecream in a freezer, you have to keep taking it out and stirring it until it is completely frozen. One day I had just taken the pan out of the freezer and the phone rang. Darrell took the bottle of shampoo I had on the shelf and poured most of the bottle into the icecream. I think it might have been Pamper Shampoo. It was a shampoo that was a pale yellow. When I got off the phone and went to stir the icecream it just looked like it was melting on top so I stirred the shampoo in. When we went to eat it, everybody started making faces. I tasted it and realized what it was. Shampoo tastes just like it smells. Then, of course, I saw the empty shampoo bottle. Another time Darrell poured garlic salt in the sugar bowl. It sure would have been nice to have cupboards. Like I said, it was a good time in my life. I was young and had all my children around me.