Mary!! What a wonderful story of down on the farm!!!!!!! And, I sat here laughing at your discription of the cats reactions and personalities! Loved the names you were going to call them if they misbehaved, too !!!!! I always wanted to live in a farm, but as you all know, I wouldn't have made it on a farm where you had to butcher animals. But, I LOVE the rest of farm life, and was always able to experience just a little bit of it down on "Grammom" and "Grampop" Rothenberger's farm near Jacksonwald/Exeter Township area. So, September 1st is your birthday!!! It's our daughter's, also!!! :o) Lynn Mary wrote of her life on the farm, and her pets!!! LOL!!!!!!

Sorry about all these typos tonight. Guess I'm trying to hurry and chime in before I get busy around here. :o) Lynn

Lynn, Actually my birthday is August 31st; and at 00:00:01 on 9/1 I officially retire. BIG SMILE Mary PS I was very fortunate in that we did not do our butchering. The hogs and the bulls were sent to the slaughter house, then to the grocery store in town where they actually cut the meat, prepared it the way you ordered it, wrapped it, froze it, and called us to come get it. The only butchering I got into was the chickens and my Dad did the gutting before he brought them inside. ----- Original Mess age ----- From: Lynn Vondran To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:13 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] Mary's life on the farm Mary!! What a wonderful story of down on the farm!!!!!!! And, I sat here laughing at your discription of the cats reactions and personalities! Loved the names you were going to call them if they misbehaved, too !!!!! I always wanted to live in a farm, but as you all know, I wouldn't have made it on a farm where you had to butcher animals. But, I LOVE the rest of farm life, and was always able to experience just a little bit of it down on "Grammom" and "Grampop" Rothenberger's farm near Jacksonwald/Exeter Township area. So, September 1st is your birthday!!! It's our daughter's, also!!! :o) Lynn Mary wrote of her life on the farm, and her pets!!! LOL!!!!!! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lynn, Actually my birthday is August 31st; and at 00:00:01 on 9/1 I officially retire. BIG SMILE Mary -------------------- Whoops! I'm a little behind on monitoring my lists because I had to work all weekend. It was the big Urgency Sale for Sherwin-Williams, and I had to work all day with the new girl and it actually made more work for me, unfortunately. At least I was by myself Sunday. I'm off today and Tuesday. Either way, congratulations on your upcoming retirement! :-) Rick B

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MARY! :-) Rick B ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynn Vondran To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:13 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] Mary's life on the farm Mary!! What a wonderful story of down on the farm!!!!!!! And, I sat here laughing at your discription of the cats reactions and personalities! Loved the names you were going to call them if they misbehaved, too !!!!! I always wanted to live in a farm, but as you all know, I wouldn't have made it on a farm where you had to butcher animals. But, I LOVE the rest of farm life, and was always able to experience just a little bit of it down on "Grammom" and "Grampop" Rothenberger's farm near Jacksonwald/Exeter Township area. So, September 1st is your birthday!!! It's our daughter's, also!!! :o) Lynn