This must be L. J., at the left, in his courting days. I don't know whose place it is in the background, but I would like to think it is the Koftan ranch, as [Great] Aunt Babe called it, north of Bassett. Though the photo isn't as clear as I would wish, he's the one holding the reins. He always seemed to have horses. The next photo is labeled by Fern as simply "The grays," the little barn in the background identifying it as on the Peters homestead, Up West, in other words.
In the next picture, I can't say where the corncrib in the background is or whether that's Grandpa Koftan, L.J., on the side of the wagon, though it looks like him. It's his writing at the bottom: "My load in front. The horses just looked around." It's next to a photo of the Old Brick House, but that's hardly definite proof. Dad talked about husking corn with the team and wagon when he worked for Grampa, hard labor with the special gloves that had hooks built in for speedy cutting.
This is an early one of Velma and Audree, obviously.
I know that he also had mules at the Old Brick House, and here's the proof in the background. It's labeled, "A pair to draw to."
That's Larry Dale on Peggy Ann at the Old Brick House, though it could be his son, David, by the strong resemblance; and here's one of L.J. again with his team at the Bloomfield farm in the hard winter of 1948-49, the same team pictured with Larry in an earlier entry on the Bloomfield farm.
I have since found some more but will go on with other entries from a recent session with the scrapbook.
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