Dear Ma and Pa

I found this through a friend.  It is a cute letter, and one that means more after living on a ranch.  Not that we have anything against you who live in the city ( I would have no clue how to ride the bus) but there is a difference.  Enjoy!  
Love,
Rebecca

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Dear Ma and Pa,



I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.


I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc, but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.


We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once.. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6' and 130 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.


Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter,

Alice

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Thoughts??

Ok, I would like some feedback from our readers on this post.  I was thinking to myself how fun it would be to do some sort of contest.  So, as I was mulling around ideas and thinking about different things that would be fun, I came up with a brilliant idea (or one that I thought was brilliant!! lol!)

So, it is a writers/photographers contest.  I will randomly pick (out of those who enter) 10 participants (five photographers, 5 writers).  I will then randomly match up each of these (1 writer with 1 photographer).

We will somehow get each pair connected to each other via email or whatever.

Now the challenge.  Each pair will have until a certain time period (if I do this at the end of October, it will end the middle of December) to write the story and get pictures that correlate with the story (so, writers will write up the story, and the photographer will have to use some big creativity to get photos that actually work for the story (ei: if the story was talking about a tree, you wouldn't want to get a picture of a kitchen)).  However, the writer will also have to keep in mind that the story will need to be kept relatively simple so that modern day pics will actually fit into the story (in other words, don't write about great historical places if the person who is photographing for you doesn't live any where near historical places).

We could even have prizes, perhaps... lol!

Does all of this make sense??  So, what do you think?  I want to know if we would actually have enough people that would want to participate (I said 5 of each only if we ended up having lots of people enter.. we could do less, depending..)

If we end up needing one more author/photographer, perhaps Becca or I could fill in, but we will just see.

Any way, I would love to hear your thoughts on this!  You DON'T have to be a professional photographer to participate! Even if all you have is a digital camera, that works just fine. Same the author (esses) out there.
  It is just to have some fun, but also give the participants a little challenge.

Thoughts?

Love, Sarah

Our very first GIVEAWAY!!

Alrighty friends!  Our give away is finally here!! We have some really neat things here, so you don't want to miss out! If you yourself don't want to enter, enter for a friend or family member! :-)

Alright, Here's what we got:

A lovely assortment of things from Samantha's Etsy SHOP!  This includes a Tea pot magnet (SO cute!), a mini lip gloss, three little charms (also SO cute!),  a covered button bobby pin, and a handmade card! 

A wonderful Bible verse key ring from Ellie!  She has put together some very cute cards with Bible verses that attach to a key ring.  These are handy to keep on your desk, in your purse, or wherever else.

A 15% off gift certificate to my sewing/knitting business!  You can redeem this at any time within the expiration date on any products that are available.

And last, but certainly not least! A beautiful necklace made by my wonderful sister, Rebecca!  The winner will be able to customize the colors.


So, here are entry rules.

To enter in our Giveaway you must:

Post a comment on THIS POST!! :-)

To gain EXTRA entries, you can:

Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to the post in comment.+1

Visit my business page and tell me what you like best, and what you think I need to add. +3

Visit Samantha's Etsy SHOP and post comment saying what you like best +2

Send an email to 5 friends about this giveaway +2

Suggest something that I should make for my business.  If it is something somewhat easy to make (as in, doesn't take forever), I will make it up before the giveaway ends and do it as a surprise drawing (I will draw another name for the "secret" prize- I won't say what I decided to make from the suggestions)). +3

Put our blog button on your side bar +2 (already have it, still counts)

Put the giveaway button on your side bar +2 (button at bottom of post)

Leave a comment telling which prize you would most like to win +2

Also, please leave seperate comments for each extra entry.

Give away will end around the 11th of Sept. I am not totally sure of when I will end it, but at least that gives you an idea.. :-)

If you would like to follow this blog, please do!  However, we would really prefer followers who are actually going to keep up with our blog and are really interested in it.  :-)

Also, please go and visit my dear friend Atlanta's new websites: Historical Help, great for new Civil War reenactors; Historical Clothing, her wonderful clothing site.  Includes beautiful pictures of clothing she has made and sells.

So, let the fun begin!!

Love in Christ,
Sarah and Rebecca








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