Ponder Pages

 I know I've talked about all the old letters I have from the 1920's that were written to grandpa. I thought I'd show exactly how many there really are.  I separated them by person and as you can see their are at least 26 bunches. One has holiday cards and other mis. things. One bunch is just single letters from different people. (mostly women)  These are the old pictures I have. I've divided them into different groups also.  Most of the pictures I'm not sure who is in them.  This picture I think might be from Sweden. At the bottom it says: Lofva Herren min sjall ( there should be two dots above the a. I'm not sure how to put them in.) I think the picture might be from the 1890's. If I can scan it sometime I'll put a better picture of it on here.    This is one of many old pictures. I'll scan it in better next time.           This is an award my grandma got in 1921.           I've also got m...

I've been trying to think of something to ponder lately and for some reason nothing new is really coming to me. I could ponder some of the same old same old but, I'm getting tired of doing what so many others are doing.  I just want to see how many people out there are interested in anything I write. So I'm going to think about a few different topics and see if anyone wants to read about my pondering. Here is a list of things I could ponder: The latest news of whatever. Earthy news(Mother Nature doing what Mother Nature does). Silly stories. My chicken with bad timing at hatching out three baby chicks last week.( Fall is creeping up on us here. Highs in sixties) My basket full of letters written to my Grandfather starting in about 1919 to the early 1930's. Old pictures from about the same time which I'm not sure who any of these people are.  Random pictures of the world around me. Maybe I could write about books I've read. Or story ideas that keep ...

I've been thinking of posting something but I wasn't sure what. So I decided to post one of the old letters. This one was post marked Sept. 9, 1932. So here it is: Dear Howard; I received your most welcome letter and I was glad to hear from you, how are you? Gee it's been a long time since you have written to me, and I haven't answered you, you'll have to forgive me. I'm so busy working 10 hours a day, six days a week and when I get home I'm all tired out.And you enjoying yourself out in Ogema going to places such as parties or dances or any place where you could have fun. You know ever since I left Wisconsin I always dream of being there and when I wake I find myself here, isn't that awful? I wish I could meet some real people, someday. Howard the only real people I've met is in Wisconsin. Here boys and girls are all together different, they are mostly wild which I hate. So I wish I could go back to Wisconsin soon and get a job anywhere ...

T'was the Sunday before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, but me. It's kind of hard for me to believe Christmas is this Friday already. It feels like it was just Thanksgiving, Why does it feel like everything is happening faster and faster lately? Is it because I'm getting older or is the world it's self going around faster? Whatever is the reason it's making it harder for me to enjoy things anymore. Speaking of change, the climate change meeting they had in Copenhagen. In my opinion it was a waste of time and money. It does not matter what they decide they want to do, the planet it's self is going to do what it wants to do. The human race has done allot of things to damage this place we call home but, people have to realize that this a living entity of it's own feel will. It is going through a change of it's own and there is nothing the human race can do to stop the changes that are happening more and more. Just have t...

A few day ago my aunt and uncle dropped off some old pictures and letters that belonged to my grandparents, at my parents house. I'm not sure who most of the people are but I think my dad is enjoying going through them and trying to figure out who they are. My mom would rather just throw them out or give them back to. They are very musty smelling.from being stuck in musty places for way to many years. There was also a good size box full of old letters that were sent to my grandpa. So far most of them are from women who wrote to him before he married my grandmother. What ever he wrote to her or she wrote to we will never know because when she died someone put those letters in her casket. She died in 1980. My grandpa died in 1985. The letters are all from the 1920's to the early 1930's. By reading some of the letters I think he was into some kind of writing club, more then likely looking for a wife. Some of the women were from close by. One was from Rib Lake. He lived by We...