,- - SHENANDOAH, IOWA 30CENTS VOL. 41 AUGUST,_ 1977 NUMBERS -Photo by Blaine Barton PAGE2 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1977 always have star-studded crowns on Kitchen-Klatter their heads as far as I am concerned. (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) Now that the children are older MAGAZINE (Katharine had her seventh birthday "More Than Just Paper And Ink" party while she was here and James is Leanna Field Driftmier, Founder nine), I see so many, many family Lucile Driftmier Vemess, Publisher characteristics becoming apparent from their Lowey-Driftmier inheritance. Subscription Price $3.00 per year (12 issues) in the U.S.A. Foreign Countries $3.50 per year. Probably if you are with your Advertising rates made known on application. Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937, at the post grandchildren . frequently you may not office at Shenandoah, Iowa, under the Act of March 3, 1879. notice these things so clearly, but when Published monthly at you see them at widely spaced intervals The Driftmier C y Shenandoah, low=l family traits come sharply into view Copyright lm by The Driftmier Company. almost immediately. I wish to give Juliana and her husband, Jed Lowey, a heartfelt "thank you" at this time. They are wonderful parents! LETIER FROM LUCILE They seem to know exactly when to In Shenandoah at last! Ralph Edgar, a wonderfully competent pilot, took the Dear Good and Faithful Friends: crack down (including cracking .down small local airport plane down to When I wrote to you last month I very hard!) and when to allow their Kansas Gity to meet the huge lWA mentioned the tremendous banging and children the absolute maximum of safe plane James, Katharine and Juliana poundiqg going on right outside the freedom. In my daily mail I read so many Lowey had boarded in Albuquerque. (I was sitting in my car just a very windows of this room. Well, today I am letters from distraught grandmothers short distance from this small plane happy tb report that the new redwood who are concerned about the actions of and trying in vain to keep tears out of fence is entirely completed, and the sight their grandchildren that it makes me my eyes when my beloved daughter of it mQre than justifies the noise that realize I have so very, very much for and grandchildren arrived. -Lucile) went with it. which to be thankful and grateful. This .summer more work has been At this date I have managed to stay out looking at the sign in front that says: FOR done iri our front yard and back yard of any hospital since two days before SALE. This was our family home for 52 than si~ce my husband, Russell, was Christmas, and it makes me feel like years and I still feel a vivid sense of alive ahd keeping everything up in running up our old, musty U.S. flag. I still unreality about not going into it again. beautiful condition. He has been gone cannot contemplate a trip of any MY! The living that went on in that house now fQr fourteen years, and the distance, but my plans are to drive up to for 52 years was so full of activity and t explanation for our present vastly Dorothy's and Frank's farm at Lucas, chanaes that come to a large family i ,, improved condition is due to the fact that Iowa, for the first stage of a trip, stay a wonder it is still in such good s t> Betty J<µle Tilsen (who lives with me) is day or two, and then on to Iowa City to The way time flies by, school will an ab$olutely avid gardener! My see my dear cousin, Gretchen Fischer be opening again with all of the ~fllUl5 daughter, Juliana, loves to garden so she Harshbarger. Word from her says that that event brings to many peopld'. and Be~ty Jane really hit it right off the she is feeling greatly improved (we have other day when we drove five mile ' bat wh$ they got together. the same bone ailment) and I've gone as to Essex I saw a line of schq>i Ther~ still remains much to be done, of far as having her husband measure parked in a neat line, and I tho , course, : since anything pertaining to doors, etc., at a motel so I'll be sure of a soon they would be making th · gardeni$g never comes to a dead halt in place to stay in Iowa City for a couple of rounds. •, mid-air,: but at least the monumental nights. He has done this before for me, Five members of Betty Jane's family basic w~rk is finished and I can look out but I guess that word reached me when I are arriving tonight, so I must leave this over th~ garden with joy-and not with felt so totally helpless to get beyond the typewriter and get to the kitchen to see the doo(nright horror that I experienced Shenandoah city limits that I didn't save what I can do to help with the potato for m~ years. the measurements. salad, etc. Thank goodness we have Summer months bring class reunions Someone asked me the other day loved ones to cook for! so I muph appreciate the opportunity to when I planned to retire, and I said in Until next month I am, as always, see anq to talk with people whom I've genuine shock: "Retire? Why, my work is Faithfully yours, had no fontact with for many years. It is my life, my contact with the world in astoun~ing how many mutual memories which I can never again travel easily and we sharj:?! For instance, when one former freely. I do not ever plan to retire." classmajte from Clarinda called, I I am most fortunate to have Betty Jane \~ rememl:)ered instantly that the first living with me. She not only takes care of GARDEN GAL window'"ice box" I ever saw was at her the garden beautifully, but she shares my home, and there was a dish of gelatin interests in testing recipes (alas! she's on I have a little garden with w~ipped cream in it! She was a very restricted diet right now because It isn't very big, astonistied that I could still remember of a gall bladder infection), changing But I am truly grateful those d~tails. things around in the house for the sake of For a place where I can dig. My or.ly child, Juliana, and my two variety, and working up some For in this digging process grandchildren, James and Katharine, enthusiasm for entertaining people as I Working with a spade, were al:lle to fly home to spend almost once did almost as a matter of course. I give vent to energy two wef:lks with us, and I am still in a state We enjoy the same books, the same And let my worries fade. of bein$ profoundly grateful that they music, etc., so I feel enormously grateful arrived lhome safely and could have a to be able to live with her. I find it so refreshing good time. I will always have a very warm We get out in the evening occasionally I confess I must agree, spot in my heart for my old friends who when it isn't too hot, but we don't often That gardening is a good thing planned: activities for the children: fishing go by the old Driftmier house. To me For a garden gal like me. trips, pitnics out of town, etc. They will there is something very mournful about -Verna Sparks 1 KITCHEN-Kl.ATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1977 PAGE3 ' .,.. .. DOROTHY much fun that she never made a fuss about sleeping in the dark again. WRITES FROM One day after I had been telling Andy THE some stories about Kristin when she was I I a little girl, he asked, "How come my mom has never told me all of these things?" I said, "Because grand­ j m=1'RlH] mothers remember some things better than mothers, and because we love to think back to when our children were Dear Friends: little and at home with us. Granny It has been wonderful to have our Driftmier used to tell your mother stories oldest grandson, Andy Brase, visiting us about me, and when you have children for a few weeks this summer. When I your mother will tell them about you." finished addressing the magazine the last Andy Brase has been spending part The crops still look good around our of May I waited an extra day so I could of his summer vacation at his grand­ area but if we don't get rain they won't. pick him up in Nebraska City. He left parents' farm near Lucas, Iowa. The rains seem to be spotty this year. home the day school was out in Chadron Some places will get an inch or more and as he had a ride with one of the teachers family are all buried. There aren't as three or four miles away they won't get and his family as far as Nebraska City. many for him to remember on his any. The young man who farms some of They live across the street from the grandpa's side of the house. I think so our ground for us was here last evening. Brases, and Kyra Bachle is a good friend many of the young people have become He farms quite a bit of land around this of Kristin's.