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Author Insight
Grandma, did it herself.
A hand pump in the kitchen for water, a wood burning stove, an outside toilet, a small roomed house crowded with her teenaged sons, my Grandma Bessie's house. A large garden with vegetables, apple and cheery trees with chickens and a goat, and a pond for water; my Grandma's yard. A surviver, her first husband died and left her with my mother and her three brothers. Her second husband lost his well-paying job at the Golden Cycle Mill after running over a lady in the rain. While he was in jail, my Grandma married Dad Spence, and birthed two more sons. She waited on this cranky, mean broken man. When Dad Spence died, her life began: she worked in the corner grocery store, went square dancing, and got envolved in her church. Grandma had walked to Limon, Colorado from Indiana. Without complaining, she faced obstacles. Grandma Bessie is my inspiration, a little hen that would, could, and did.
Book Excerpt
Damsels Overcome
The neighbors grumbled, "Won't work. Nonsense!" They went back to their homes.
"Cluck! I'll bake the dough with Mrs. Mousy."
Mrs. Mousy said, "The sun dries mud; we can dry the dough."
Prairie Hen laid sticky clumps of dough on hot stones, which baked the dough hard enough to hold.”
While the dough baked bread, the chicks gathered sweet blackberries, Mrs. Mousy's husband brought honey to smooth on top of the bread. The baking aroma called to Ground Hog, Jack Rabbit, Musk Rat, their families, and her neighbors.
"Who will help eat these lovely loaves of bread?"
"I will!” answered Ground Hog, Jack Rabbit, Musk Rat, and all her neighbors.
"BOK! No, you will not. I found the seeds. Mrs. Mousy and I planted them and tended them while they grew. We harvested the grain, threshed the berries, and ground them into flour. Then we baked the dough into these lovely loaves of bread. Mrs. Mousy, her family, and my chicks will eat the bread”.
"Cluck! What a feast we had!"
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