Describe and Draw your yard as a child, did you help with the yard work? Tell about your memories.

We had a lot of lawn and trees left the ground so poor that mother wasn’t able to grow many flowers. She did get a clematis to grow which she was real proud of. We had ditches in front and on the north side so  she could also grow sweet peas which i love and never have been able to grow. My dad and brothers worked long hours on the farm so didn’t do much in the yard. Mother tried to have a garden but without any help because us girls started weeding beets as soon as we would have been any help. I love to garden and have a lot of flowers in my own yard. My grandpa Porter lived a block away and grandmother Porter could grow anything. She had a huge garden and the best parsnips you ever tasted. Grandpa Porter raised a large amount of corn so we always had veg to eat. There was a man named Johnny Lane, he lived about 2 blocks from my grandmother Nielson and raised acres of garden and for 50 cents you could buy all the vegetables you could carry. Mother always stopped there for asparagus.