When our girls were young. (About 2 and 4) we moved to a boarding Christian school in Miller, South Dakota. The salary was minimal but they did provide housing and food.
Our girls loved the Sand Pile in our yard and would spend many hours playing and shoveling sand everywhere. We kept it covered as the neighborhood cats seemed to think it was a communal litter box.
The school raised pigs and also had wild turkeys that liked to roost nearby. One summer a wild turkey decided to make a nest in our rhubarb patch which was only about 10 feet away from the girl's sand pile. Imagine our surprise when Momma Turkey began hissing and flapping wildly at the girls. It scared me and terrified them.
Mr. Wonderful was very angry that Mrs. Turkey was scaring the children and kept threatening "to have Thanksgiving early (complete with Turkey dinner)". We tried several times to see if we could have peaceful coexistence with Mrs. Turkey but she would have none of it. We kept the girls inside till she hatched her young and then several men from the school chased her off, broke up the nest and took the babies to raise.
These are the Easter dresses that grandma sent them that year. My mom always told me that she hated dresses with pinafores because they had to be starched and ironed.....so what did she send my girls?
You guessed it, dresses with pinafores!
Monday, September 25, 2006
Monday Memories....The Sand Pile and Pinafores
Posted by Lazy Daisy at 7:52 AM
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They are adorable! I love the dresses. I think I would have been affraid of Mrs. Turkey too! mine is up http://micheled.blogspot.com/
Pinafores are all gone for now. They were cute then but boy if I had to iron them now!! I would HATE that. I do not have a Monday Memory up today...I love doing MM too. I am just behind. My throat is feeling bad plus I am at church doing MY THANG!! GREAT POST!!
How adorable they look! Those are precious memories. Thanks for sharing them with all of us.
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I was saying that turkeys are indeed scary. Those poor little girls! But they look adorable in the pic!!!! THANKS so much for your words and support, you are one of a kind and that nomination made me very, very happy :)
Oh oh, scarey Turkeys, no fun at all. i'm glad that they didn't get too scared or injured though.
Hm. It's an irony with the pinafores that needs to be ironed. though they really are very very cute in them!
You know, I hate ironing. I don't buy clothes any longer that has to be ironed, if I could avoid it. I think it may have something to do with my back pain.... *lol*
My granny in Tenn. once had a turkey, that thing scared me to death! It would chase us kids around the yard all the time! LOL
The girls dresses are so cute! I love pinafore dresses! But you are right, what a pain to iron! Miss Priss had quite a few, I dreaded ironing them!
A great story about your time in South Dakota. And sweet little pinafores.
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They really look wonderful in those pinafore dresses. I think mom hated it because she had to starch it now I think it's your turn to do this that's why she didn't mind giving your little darlings these pinafore dresses. (Lol.) I really do think it's lovely. They look like dolls.
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What a great story Daisy. I guess you can't mess with Grandma's prerogative, huh? I enjoyed thinking of the sand pile. Simple is the best. Thanks for sharing this memory and for visiting my blog.
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Awww, but they are darling in those pinafore dresses.
What a wonderful story and a beautiful photo! :)
Awwww that bad turkey! She was being a good mama though. Unfortunate for everyone! I LOVE pinafores! Both my girls wore pinafores as often as I could keep up with them! My eldest wore a lot more of them! But mine only wore them until they were about 3 -- then THEY started showing a preference for NON-dresses! LOL!
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