Very nice colors! I make juice and jelly from my elderberries, you dye cloth. Do you use vinegar and salt to set the colors? What will you make with all of those fabrics? Ha, better that Stan does his napping at home rather than at church where a few of the dairy farmers always fell asleep in the service in a church we attended about 50 years ago. The community had a lot of dairy farms, and a lot of Dutch families with names like Boersema and Van Dyke. They and their families filled up whole pews. The minister's sermons were too long, so mid way through we started seeing heads nod and hear an occasional snore or snort when the wife applied her elbow to her husband's ribs. Of course the men had all been up since about 3 or 4am, and after milking and breakfast...... they relaxed. The wives always seemed to stay awake!
The Vos family next door to us had been farming there on the edge of town for ? years, while the town built up all around them. They had 9 children. The oldest one was a boy, the next a girl, and after that a whole string of boys. The girl kept hoping for another girl to help her with her work. The boys all helped their dad in the barn and fields. The farm is gone now, it's all houses. I really hate to see that happen to good farmland.
