We talked about Jean and how she could do anything — well, Bonnie had that gene too and she came first! But anything she tried her hand at always came out A-OK. She could cook and she could sew better than anyone. But I remember one time when I was a kid, we had a terrible snow storm and when that happened, everything stopped and especially traffic! Our teacher in our rural school was Fred Vipperman at the time and of course he was snowed in at school and couldn’t get home. So along in the evening, here he came in his car trying to plow a way into our yard. I think Dad & Paul with shovels, finally got him in. But Mom hadn’t planned to keep the teacher that year and she thought she had got the word to him that the neighbors to the east would keep him. Well, apparently he didn’t want to stay there — hence, he came to our house. We had a full house at the time, as Bonnie was there too — waiting for Ralph to send the money for train-fare so she could go to Idaho and they could be married! Fred must have been there awhile as I know Mom washed his clothes and Bonnie ironed his shirts. Well, Fred was so appreciative of his ironed shirts and he wasn’t bashful about telling her so. That was quite a complement as his Mother took in ironing and she was reputed to be the “”best”. I know she ironed the linen dresses that the 8th grade teacher in Chapman wore to school and they always looked top-notch! I remember that Mom ran out of sugar while Fred was with us so one Saturday morning he put on the snow ski’s that Dad had made and went over to Frank Klepetco’s place which was just down the road a bit and quite a bit farther up his lane to the house. When he came back sometime later, he had a 10# sack of sugar that he got from Frank so we didn’t have to do without baked goods at our house. Fred was my 7th grade teacher and he and his sisters had gone to High School in Chapman with Helen, Vi and Bonnie. We had other teachers stay with us during the winter too and they were all good experiences.

Thanks for updating us, Bob.