Farm Story Friday

Greenwood family (Lynn, Eugene, Keith, Lyle, Roger behind the tire, Mariet, Brian, Wayne sitting on the front tire, Eldon, with Scott and Ronald in the cab of the tractor). LIFE IS GOOD! (30 August 2019) The question of the day is, “What makes life good?” What makes you want to celebrate? That reminds me of today’s theme song, “Celebrate” which was sung eloquently by the North Gem High School choir in 1991. You may imagine Wayne and I as you watch Kool & The Gang sing “Celebrate” in their music video… https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M . Looking back on life helps put things in perspective. So let’s look back at this picture of my family. There are a few things that I want you to notice… -  The tractor is awesome… maybe even Instagram-worthy! - Everyone (except maybe Wayne and Eugene) have their shirts tucked in (indicates we are in public). - Keith has a blue ribbon hanging from his belt (I am sure he won that at the fair, maybe showing a calf… some of my other brother...

Elizabeth Jane Lamb Crockett (my great-grandmother), Wayne, my mom (Mariet Nielsen Greenwood), me, and Dorothy Crockett Nielsen (my grandmother). King of the Bunker Hill (23 August 2019) Hi Everyone! According to WikiPedia, David Crockett was born in 1786, served as a frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He served in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in March 1836. Davy Crockett was a great hunter, a great storyteller, famous for his larger-than-life deeds, and was known as the “King of the Wild Frontier”. Today’s theme song is a ballad about him. https://youtu.be/txcRQedoEyY According to FamilySearch, a different David Crockett was born in 1806 on an island off the coast of Maine and married Lydia Young in 1830. Lydia and David were baptized after Wilford Woodruff (who served as the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) taught them the gospel on his first mission. Just over five years later they took their seve...

Wayne, Keith, Scott, Ronald, Eugene, Brian, and Eldon Greenwood Farmer Tan  (16 August 2019) Hi Kids! Finally, I have my blog access back- it was nice of Curious George to relinquish control! I hope you all had a good visit with Evelyn and her parents. I’m assuming that mom let Evelyn leave with Candace and Trevor? But maybe that’s not a safe assumption! Since life is all about learning to make good choices I thought I’d share a few choices (some better than others) that I made growing up. Let’s start with the picture of me weeding in the garden. I wasn’t always excited when my mom would ask me to “go weed a few rows in the garden.” Sometimes I probably didn’t weed as carefully as I could have, missing a few weeds and getting a few pea plants, but I am grateful we had a large garden. Choosing to weed… good choice! Roger weeding in the garden. Learning to treat my family well didn’t always go great, but I do have photo evidence of a time that I brought my mom...

April, Megan, Sydney, Caleb, and Kelsey on Purdue’s climbing wall. The Final Epistle of Curious George to the Greenwoods  (9 August 2019) I, Curious George, hero of all heroes, write unto the kids of The Greenwood Clan in Colorado Springs with great gratitude, yet heaviness of heart. I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught you with my most capable and humble of all teachings. Yet I sorrow to inform you that the time has come to allow your father to once again resume his meager blogging attempts (he keeps jabbering on and on about some important anniversary...). So dear children, I fear that this will be my final epistle to you for some time. Me, Curious George, reading an epistle from a fellow E.W. (Epistle Writer) named Paul. Thanks April for letting me use your scriptures! In today’s epistle I would like to give a little insight into the way I have successfully preserved your father over the past 43 years. It wasn’t easy, but I guess if it had been easy,...

Welcome back from Idaho! Your dad is jealous that I, Curious George, got to go and he did not. The Amazing Adventures of Curious George Part 2, “Airing Grievances” (2 August 2019) Hi Greenwood Kids, Curious George here again, and today I’d like to air a very specific grievance I have against your father. He is a decent fellow (mostly because of my training…), but he has a severe flaw. Your dad does not now, nor has he ever, truly understood my greatness! To be fair, none of the Greenwood boys really understand my greatness. They have mostly just assumed I was a typical stuffed animal to play with. For this I really don’t fault any of them, because obviously that’s what I, the Master of Disguise, have wanted them to think. However, I do fault your dad for not believing my awesomeness when I tried to share it with him plain English. Let me explain. As your dad got older, I wanted to give him a glimpse of my greatness. I decided the best way to do that was through...