Thread:Llyssa1020/@comment-34478085-20190827163932/@comment-34478085-20190829213252

Hi again! Am being a bad employee and popped on here for a quick break. I just loved hearing about your great grandparents! I am a Wyoming native and have often wondered how the pioneers could stand the long winters with the wind howling through their cabins, if they didn't have a lot to read. (If I have enough to read I can be anywhere and stand almost anything, but without books that would be rough.  Or t.v.  I love my t.v. too, I must admit!)  Suger beet farmers still have it hard sometimes. I wonder how the crops are this year? One of my besties lives in Powell, which is near Manderson. While in Lander we had snow on the ground all winter since Halloween, she said they got one storm where it stuck to the ground, then nothing. It makes me think there must be a drought up there this year.

I can't imagine moving to Manderson, WY  after city life!!! I finally saw Manderson last year and thought it seemed small to me, and I'm used to a fairly small town. People from cities often are unhappy here NOW, let alone over 100 years ago. Unless you are the kind of person who can entertain yourself, there is just not much to do. Your great grandma must have been a brave lady though, to leave then and go back home. My grandma (who died before I was born) was widowed and divorced her second husband in the late 1920's or early 1930's. I always thought that was awfully brave of her.

How fun that you have family here in my hometown! I bet it was the Maverick, and not the Antler, where your family stayed when they came to visit. It is indeed a small world! Heck, the only time someone tried to fix me up by giving my name to this handsome charming guy they met at a convention in Cheyenne, he looked at the info and said, "Oh. I was married to her," and passed the info back. Only in Wyoming can someone try to fix you up with your (one) ex-husband at a convention, hundreds of miles away. If you get time, let me know what your mom says.

I am with you in that different kitties have distinct personalities. I just love them! We did have outdoor cats when I was growing up. I did do shots before (one battery of them for 5 years and one for another 5) but they make me feel so awful, I quit last year. I am one of those people who has a pretty bad reaction to them even when they dilute them down really far. So, now I can pet cats and dogs but can't live with them. My neighbor's cat, Kittyboo, came over to visit me when I got home last night. She does the thing where she wants you to pet her, but then runs away 5 feet and gives you cattitude when you get near her. Then, if I turn to walk away she runs up and rubs and practically trips me. Typical cat!

Have a lovely day! I'd better get back to work! Oh, and I am in your waiting room! --jodi