[Editors' note: This section discusses the little house on the farm at Valmont in Colorado. "Little house" usually refers to the little house in Douglass, bought after they left the farm.]
Back to my memories of the little house. I had taken my mother and Aunt Maude Parry on a trip to Missouri early in the summer of 1939. While there Cousin Stella had given me Black-eyed peas for seed. We had planted them in our garden on the little farm and they had such pretty Blooms. Each morning, David would run out in his Pajamas to see how many more beautiful blooms had opened up. He had a great love of flowers and his Delphinium took a prize in the flower show.
The first two years on little farm we sold strawberries, almost $300.00 worth the first year and $200.00 the second. We raised Leghorn Chickens and Paid for their feed with eggs plus the nice fryers from our young chickens.
Lenard Hall bought eggs and Chickens and sold us the feed. One Sunday morning, I had made a cream filling for a Piecrust, decorated it with a few large strawberries and set it in the Basement while we were away at Church. Mr. Hall needed more eggs for an order so he came out to our place for them. He told me afterward how he looked at that pie and wanted some of it, but thought I might be having Company and would need all of it. So he didn't cut into it.
One Halloween I was making Mincemeat when trick or treaters came to the Door. I invited them in and gave each one a dish of hot mincemeat. They thought that the best treat they got that Halloween time.
My Mother often spoke of her desire for a wine colored dress. When her Mother went to get material for her wedding dress years before, Mamma had asked her to get wine color, but Grandma got Brown.
On Mamma's Birthday September 12, 1940, My daughter gave her some Money and told her to go buy a Wine Colored dress.