Here's a Gem

Look at what I found this afternoon!  Name the year, the place and which Tanner for the big prize!

Judy, Ann, and Steve

Seriously, this one is a treasure (the picture, not the kids)

James B. and Tilda C. Wasden All Dressed Up

I don't know what the occasion was, but this is a wonderful, if a little fuzzy picture. They look so grand!

The Sweet Odours of Spring!

Since it's almost springtime in the Rockies, I'm sure my siblings can remember coming home on the school bus in the spring to the pungent odor of the manure in the manure spreader. This picture is one of the few that shows the outdoor facilities, as well as the house. What a job to dig out the winter's collection of the manure pile from the corrals, and then spread it onto the fields to increase the crop yield. Part of real life on the farm.

Minnie Arrilla Wasden

Mother would have been about 7 years old in this picture. (Aunt Cindy was born in 1913.) She looks like a child with a merry heart, and it isn't difficult to imagine her sitting on the stile practicing her whistling so that Grandmother couldn't scold her with the rhyme: "Whistling girls and crowing hens will always come to no good end." I isolated this picture from the group picture of the Wasden children taken before Uncle Orville was born.

Frank and Veronika (Mach) Krajicek

The first picture is the only picture we have of our great-grandfather, Frank Krajicek. The picture was extracted from a very faded family group picture.
The second picture is of Veronika Mach (Krajicek). After establishing a family of 9 children, of whom our Grandmother Louise was the second oldest, and attempting to establish a homestead, soddy and all, in western Nebraska, Frank left Veronika, and went back to Omaha to be a tailor, which was his occupation listed in the 1880 Cleveland, Ohio Federal Census. He is listed in the Kearney, Nebraska, 1900 business directory as a tailor. Kearny is quite a distance from either Mitchell or Alliance, Nebraska. Veronika divorced Frank, and was supported by her grown children, especially Henry. They are both listed as being from Bohemia. Our great-aunt Rose Krajicek Allgeier wrote that Frank and Veronika were beautiful dancers.