Enjoy more Photo Fridays and Andi’s Journal in Andi’s Attic >> Andi’s Journal December 1882, five months after the events in Thick as Thieves Right after Thanksgiving (President Lincoln proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving back in 1863), Mother gets after the boys to go up in the mountainsContinue reading “Christmas on the Circle C”
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Andi’s 1889 Thanksgiving
Read more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> Thanksgiving Day, 1889. This year I had no trouble coming up with my gratefulness contribution around the Thanksgiving table. Andi beamed. After a week of worry bordering on sheer terror, her beloved husband, Riley, was out of the woods at last. (See Stranger in the Glade, “CountContinue reading “Andi’s 1889 Thanksgiving”
A Tomato Bath
Read more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> September 1886 (I warned you these might not fall in order. Just enjoy!) “Oh, no! Not again!” I have to say, I was pretty annoyed at finding another empty next of eggs. What could be going after them? I banged the egg basket on the side ofContinue reading “A Tomato Bath”
Andi’s Journal – Hidden Treasure
Read more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> September 1886 I’m still getting used to being a rancher’s wife. It seems to me that Riley gets all the fun and I’m “stuck” inside cleaning and trying to coax the Black Beast (aka the cookstove) into cooperating. But once in a while I find a hiddenContinue reading “Andi’s Journal – Hidden Treasure”
A Run-in with Chad
Read more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> August 1, 1886 It’s funny how time works. When I was younger, it seemed the days took forever to go by. Though I’m still convinced that spending a good part of the day in the stuffy schoolhouse has something to do with that. But now? Now it’s asContinue reading “A Run-in with Chad”
Ranch Emergency
Find more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> July 20, 1886 Just when I wanted to write an entry all about Riley getting stung during our “lost” Yosemite adventure, something came up. Something of an emergency. I was just making my way to the barn, planning on taking a ride on Shasta. However, I onlyContinue reading “Ranch Emergency”
A Fresh Start
Note from Mrs. M. Andi’s Journal is starting up again. It will be a mixture of new entries and old entries (as I move them over from Blogger). Find more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> January 2, 1882 My journal entries really begin on this wintery day while I was sitting in Taffy’s stallContinue reading “A Fresh Start”
Andi’s Journal-The Black Beast
See more journal entries in Andi’s Attic >> Summer, 1886 My family (Mother, Luisa, and Nila) cook on a wood cookstove. Most were black but some were fancier. The Carter house has a fancy cookstove, and the Carter women all know how to run it perfectly. Fresh-baked bread, light cakes, sugar cookies, a beef roast. Mother,Continue reading “Andi’s Journal-The Black Beast”
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