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It seemed that summer always came in good and strong after Memorial Day. Curly and I preferred to look for birds nests on the prairie but some times we had to work – well I did, at least part of the time – I would have to pull weeds out of the onions in the garden and hoe some in the beans, peas etc. Curly spent most of that time looking for mice and chasing butterflies and grasshoppers. Cathie spent a lot of time working at the office so I got in on picking beans & peas quite often. Sometimes when the potatoes stated to get some size (about the size of golf balls) we would dig up a few hills and have new potatoes and garden fresh peas cooked together in a cream gravy. That’s a real good dish. Sometime Curly and I would locate a bird nest in the late spring and watch it as the eggs hatched and the birds grew and left the nest. Sometimes a nest would have two birds and sometimes four. When the little birds heard us coming they would stick their necks in the air and open their mouth. When a bird does this he looks like he was all mouth. We would dig worms |