Farm Horizons
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Dec. 5,
5, 2016
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At the end of the day, the kids still found ways to enanother time when the kids got in some trouble for their
joy their time on the farm.
shenanigans.
“I remember we used to lay on the roof and look at
“[The chicken coop] almost started on fire, because
the stars – on that little shed with the rounded roof,”
Cindy and I were playing with matches. It was really
Sue said.
dry at the time, so when we dropped one on the ground,
all of a sudden it was like
Farm shenanigans
‘woosh,’ right by the chicken
While there was plenty to
coop,” Sue said. “Mom and
do for fun on the farm, there
dad were milking cows, so
was also room for a little
we ran down to the barn.”
mischief now and then,
– Sandy Mattson, former Lachermeier farm resident
Their parents took care of
“Cherie and I used to tease
the
fire, and the kids were
the bull – his name was Jimsent
up to the house.
my. We made up a song for
In
Winsted
that, too,” David said. “He was in a cage, luckily.”
Though Jimmy might have been caged, the
The Lachermeier kids attended Holy Trinity Schools
Lachermeier kids remember a time when the cows got
before the family moved to Howard Lake. While the
loose.
younger kids transferred to school in Howard Lake, the
“The cows got out and went into town, and we had to
oldest kids graduated from Holy Trinity.
go chase them home,” Sharon said.
“When our dad milked cows, we had the milk cans,
Cindy remembered taking a more active role in the
and he would take us to school in the morning with
cows’ escape.
these milk cans in the back of the truck – he’d deliver
“We used to let them out,” Cindy laughed.
them in town to the creamery,” Sharon said. “But Sandy
Sandy had a different memory of playing on the
and I were like, ‘No, we have to go to school with our
farm.
dad,’ and he’d come driving up to school with those
“We went swimming in the cow tank,” Sandy said.
milk cans.”
“We used it as a swimming pool.”
Sandy added that the two were a little embarrassed by
The kids remember their mother catching them and
the milk cans.
chastising them for swimming in the tank. There was
“I used to have to go through town with the tractor,
‘The town kids loved to come out to
the farm.’
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