Farm Horizons
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Dec. 5,
5, 2016
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too, and I was always so embarrassed,” Sandy said.
According to Sharon, she and Sandy never had to do
the milking, but they did have to take the milk into the
barn and clean the buckets with hot water, which they
had to get from the house.
“We went from the barn to the house, and we’d look
out to see if anyone was going by,” Sharon laughed. “We
didn’t want anyone to see us in the barn.”
“I don’t know why we were so embarrassed, because
the town kids loved to come out to the barn,” Sandy
said.
According to Sharon, people used to bring their old
cars out to the farm and work on them.
“Kids would come out to work on their cars,” Sharon
said. “My dad would let them come out to the machine
shed, and they would come out all the time to work on
their cars.”
Their classmates even gathered at the farm to work on
their homecoming parade floats.
“My junior or senior year, for homecoming, our class
would come out and we would bring the wagon out and
decorate it for the parade,” Sharon said. “Our class did
the wagon in the machine shop, too.”
Submitted photo
The Lachermeier kids used to sit on top of the water tank,
while chatting and making up songs.