When we first got back to the old place, there were busy days of cleaning, papering, and painting. Neural and Otis had the two upstairs Bedrooms, Earl and I and the twin babies the downstairs bedroom. There were no clothes closets. We had to curtain off a corner or fix hooks in the wall with curtains over the clothes. We really missed our nice Colorado home.
My Mother wanted the place deeded to me and my children, a setup that meant I could never sell the place or Borrow money we needed to get started. I am thankful the Douglass Banker and my father agreed that the place should be deeded to me. Then we were able to get a government loan and bought horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and machinery, and started over. It was tough going to pay the taxes on the place. My parents needed cash from us to pay taxes on their Douglass home, buy clothes, and continue their way of life. It was hard to have anything left for our young family. We also had the loan on the place to pay on.
In years past my father had made a drag to drag roads. That job was granted to us and that brought in much needed cash. Earl went to sales and bought calves to feed out. We also raised a lot of chickens and had eggs and fryers to sell. Earl also had plans to build a wind electric charger. I still have the papers he got from S. A. Long Electric Company in Wichita and little by little was getting together pipe and other material to build the frame to hold the mill, but it was not to be.
After two years of hard work and sickness, Earl had an operation for Appendix and found he had TB of Appendix. Dr. Snyder set down beside him to ask about Background of TB. Dr. Snyder said Dad Teets' hunch-back was caused by TB of the Bone rather than being dropped by his little sister as Dad had always believed.