by Jennifer | Apr 24, 2017 | Author's Corner, Farming&Gardening
Ever since I wrote “The Honeybee Sisters” series, I have been quite concerned about bees and butterflies. I canceled my pest spraying service and have been looking at flowers to plant that bees and butterflies love. One reason that monarch butterflies are...
by Jennifer | Apr 10, 2017 | Family, Farming&Gardening
By Richard Gappmayer (Jennifer’s father) When the German POWs would come to work on my father’s farm they would, during the first summer, be accompanied by a guard. This guard would be armed with an M1 rifle. I don’t know if it was loaded. I suspect...
by Jennifer | Mar 6, 2017 | Faith, Family, Farming&Gardening
By Richard Gappmayer, Jennifer’s father Near the end of WWII, German POWs were brought to the United States and housed in camps around the country. They were brought here because there was no place to keep them in Europe, and there was a shortage of labor here....
by Jennifer | Feb 13, 2017 | Faith, Family, Farming&Gardening
My father, Roy, was born in 1900. He was too young to serve in WWI and too old to be in WWII. (I wonder how high those numbers will go.) Many of the young men from our small town served in the war. Wesley Graff came home burned and disfigured. Every time I saw him I...
by Jennifer | Jan 9, 2017 | Farming&Gardening
By Richard Gappmayer, Jennifer’s father. My father planted fruit trees and while waiting for them to mature, he planted strawberries in rows between the trees. We would plant the berries one spring, and then they bore fruit the next spring and several springs...
by Jennifer | Nov 14, 2016 | Family, Farming&Gardening
By Richard Gappmayer (Jennifer’s dad) In September of each year after the pears had been picked, sorted, boxed and shipped, I would walk through the orchard and observe that many of the trees had a few pears left on them. Because there were just a few in each...
