As I discovered the photos in the last entry, so I did these, which have to be probably the last we took of the farm Up West. The prints are confusingly marked for Jan 61/Jan 57/ Feb, but appear to be from about the same time. These are in sharp contrast to the present obscurity of trees as seen in the 5 September 2008 entry. The first looks west at the house with the carport added by Grandpa Koftan. The stained-glass panel now at Penny Ellingson Mindemann's was over the living room window. The left upper dormer window marked the frigid bedroom where Ellingson cousins Denny and Mike, and I ordinarily slept The other dormer is to the little space of the narrow stairwell and a single bed in the open. I don't know who the boy is, who looks like either Denny or David (unlikely). The dogs are Salty and Pepper.
This next photo is from the south, slightly east, looking north, with the trees Grandpa Koftan planted that now obscure the house. The main entrance (into the kitchen off the long porch) was at the left end of the single-story part.
From the southeast looking northwest at the hog barn at the left, built new by Grandpa Koftan, where we had our biology lessons on birth, and the corn crib at the right where Grandpa butchered hogs, where we could confront death. The little barn for the cows and horse is back of the hog barn. To the left of the photo was a ravine of sheep sorrel (?) where we played a lot.
After I had written this entry, I found this photo of Micheal Ellingson directly in front of the little barn I disliked for its mire of dung and urine. Until I edited this, I had not noticed Dennis at the right side, obscured by the sunlight leaking in. On the back Audree had written to Velma, "This was taken on his second birthday & just as I told Denny to get back and went to snap the picture he turned his head. Not such a good hair cut either."
And these are two extras, also confusingly dated but from the same occasion (Easter?), when everyone was dressed up (I'm assuming Lindsay's in a new cowboy outfit). L-R: Fern Peters Koftan, Lindsay Ellingson, JaVee Luckert in the arms of Penny Ellingson, Sue Luckert, Audree Koftan Ellingson. The long porch behind them bordered the kitchen and dining room and was where we separated milk and churned home-made ice cream.
L-R: Audree's back, Sue and JaVee, Velma Koftan Luckert, the edge of Penny. On the back is written, "Yes, I want one of these of proof she always bullys me." Signed "Audree," referring to big sister Velma, of course.
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