When our girls were young. (About 2 and 4) we moved to a boarding Christian school in Miller, South Dakota. The salary was minimal but they did provide housing and food.

Our girls loved the Sand Pile in our yard and would spend many hours playing and shoveling sand everywhere. We kept it covered as the neighborhood cats seemed to think it was a communal liter box.

The school raised pigs and also had wild turkeys that liked to roost nearby. One summer a wild turkey decided to make a nest in our rhubarb patch which was only about 10 feet away from the girl's sand pile. Imagine our surprise when when Momma Turkey began hissing and flapping wildly at the girls. It scared me and terrified them.

Mr. Wonderful was very angry that that Mrs. Turkey was scaring the children and kept threatening "to have Thanksgiving early (complete with Turkey dinner)". We tried several times to see if we could have peaceful coexistence with Mrs. Turkey but she would have none of it. We kept the girls inside till she hatched her young and then several men from the school chased her off, broke up the nest and took the babies to raise.

These are the Easter dresses that grandma sent them that year. My mom always told me that she hated dresses with pinafores because they had to be starched and ironed.....so what did she send my girls?

You guessed it, dresses with pinafores!

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