Do You, Do You Remember These....?

 

Look at those lapels. Oh if only this album cover were

in color! Do you,oh, do you remember these? The Statler

Bros. released 'Do You Remember These?’ in 1972.  

Ten years later, I took this picture.

Look at these cute little girls posing amid the trees

of Tan Tar A.  Heck, I think some of those same patio

tables and chairs are still in service down there.  Coming

down to the Lake is fun: the weather is nicer than in

Tarkio; they get to stay in a hotel; and, after she

gets off work, they get to play with their grandma.

Sure, Dad has to go to meetings, and sometimes

they have to sit in quietly and color, but they

also get to go swimming so it's still

pretty much like a vacation.  

Do you remember 1982?  I do...it was one of the first Farm Bureau meetings Blake and I attended.  It was before his mustache phase. The two little girls, Lee and Ann, were just three and two that December. They haven’t missed very many Missouri Farm Bureau annual meetings in their lives.

You can do the math.



This past week I stuffed a whole bunch of envelopes with a letter from Blake asking you to grant him another two years as Missouri Farm Bureau president.  I don’t know everyone...or even every little town....Missouri has so many! But I recognize a lot of those names and addresses….and it does my heart good to see envelopes with the names and addresses of your families, too.  Just like Lee and Ann who are in their third decade of Farm Bureau meetings (So many pancakes! So many escalator rides! So many pages of resolutions!), Farm Bureau committees, speech contests, and leadership roles are filled with a mix of old traditions and new energy.  

Each year we come down to Tan Tar A to work..but also to mingle.  We love seeing how little ones have grown and we mourn those no longer with us.  Once upon a time, we chased kids down the hallway…..oh wait!

We still get to do that!