Monday, June 20, 2022
I remember using a hay hook to help Dick put bales of hay into the hayloft in the old barn. Yes, he had us slop the hogs too. He rigged up a plank under the old Alice Chalmer carriage so we could drive though the soybeans sitting on the plank picking cockleburs.
He had a dog in the early '60's that he called ,"Dog Hammerschold" which I thought was so funny as a kid because at that time Dag Hammerschold was Secretary General of the United Nations.
But what was the most fun was when he made two go-carts out old lawnmower parts so we could drive around the farm in our "Jeeps" wearing the WWI helmets that Grandpa Harry had brought back from that war.
I guess gas was cheap back then because we filled up those go-carts any time we wanted from the farm tank.
He would go to South Dakota back then with Larry Hoffensberger and pick up a panoply of fireworks that would put on the best Fourth of July show anywhere.
He was phlegmatic, dry, witty, versatile, and intelligent. May he rest in the Peace of Christ.
Michael J. Ochs
