Old ranch house 1965 Just before this picture was taken we had just finished the second phase of the house. This added the family room, mom and dad’s bedroom, and another bedroom upstairs. It was nice having more room. I can’t remember what year it was exactly when we did finish this section of the house but it was nice having more room. Sherry is sitting on my, Mike’s, lap. Terry and I would play basketball on the curtain rod in the front room. We would use a ping pong ball for the ball and then we would have to stuff it behind the curtain rod for the basket. Grandma and grandpa wouldn’t let us play basketball in the house so we would improvise by using the ping pong ball and also playing it while mom and dad were not in the house so as to catch us playing and avoid trouble. We would pretend that we would play ping pong on the kitchen table so that it appeared like we wanted to play ping pong. We would get caught every once in awhile and would get into trouble for playing basketball inside the house. Finally we got to put up a small basketball hoop in the kitchen by the closet door and would use a nurf ball for the ball. As we got older we would play on our knees so that it would seem like a 10 foot high hoop. That is probably why my knees kill me today, all that basketball on the knees. At about this age Terry and I used to go over to the beaver ponds on North Twin and go fishing. We liked to take Debbie and Tammie along as well. Debbie and Tammie claimed later in life that we only took them so that someone could carry our worms. I can’t believe that those two sisters would accuse Terry and me of that. We just loved their company. I loved going over to the ponds and fishing. We would catch fish all the time. I used to wish that we wouldn’t have had to wipe out the dams. It made for so much fun with the fishing and the swimming. We would fish for awhile and then would find ourselves playing in the ponds swimming around. We would start at the edge of Milo Bowen’s property on the east side of the pasture and then as the dams were wiped out we would move further up stream to the newer ponds. Eventually we would walk all the way up into the forest about a mile or so. The cousins would come up and we would take them finishing on the Twin creek as well. I really miss those days and the beauty that the beaver dams added. I think that I was a little of an environmentalist. I think that as I got older I would have done something in my power to try to protect the beavers and the beaver dams. Eventually the environmentalist did get their way on horseshoe creek and they stopped wiping out the beavers and left the dams.
Old ranch house 1965
ReplyDeleteJust before this picture was taken we had just finished the second phase of the house. This added the family room, mom and dad’s bedroom, and another bedroom upstairs. It was nice having more room. I can’t remember what year it was exactly when we did finish this section of the house but it was nice having more room. Sherry is sitting on my, Mike’s, lap. Terry and I would play basketball on the curtain rod in the front room. We would use a ping pong ball for the ball and then we would have to stuff it behind the curtain rod for the basket. Grandma and grandpa wouldn’t let us play basketball in the house so we would improvise by using the ping pong ball and also playing it while mom and dad were not in the house so as to catch us playing and avoid trouble. We would pretend that we would play ping pong on the kitchen table so that it appeared like we wanted to play ping pong. We would get caught every once in awhile and would get into trouble for playing basketball inside the house. Finally we got to put up a small basketball hoop in the kitchen by the closet door and would use a nurf ball for the ball. As we got older we would play on our knees so that it would seem like a 10 foot high hoop. That is probably why my knees kill me today, all that basketball on the knees.
At about this age Terry and I used to go over to the beaver ponds on North Twin and go fishing. We liked to take Debbie and Tammie along as well. Debbie and Tammie claimed later in life that we only took them so that someone could carry our worms. I can’t believe that those two sisters would accuse Terry and me of that. We just loved their company. I loved going over to the ponds and fishing. We would catch fish all the time. I used to wish that we wouldn’t have had to wipe out the dams. It made for so much fun with the fishing and the swimming. We would fish for awhile and then would find ourselves playing in the ponds swimming around. We would start at the edge of Milo Bowen’s property on the east side of the pasture and then as the dams were wiped out we would move further up stream to the newer ponds. Eventually we would walk all the way up into the forest about a mile or so. The cousins would come up and we would take them finishing on the Twin creek as well. I really miss those days and the beauty that the beaver dams added. I think that I was a little of an environmentalist. I think that as I got older I would have done something in my power to try to protect the beavers and the beaver dams. Eventually the environmentalist did get their way on horseshoe creek and they stopped wiping out the beavers and left the dams.
Mom (Helen) reports that in 1967, they started buying the ground from Grandma Alena and Grandpa Karl Ripplinger.
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