You are the bows-Dan Rye,part four
Dan attended Collette elementary school which was about five blocks from our home.When I'm at the lilbrary computer I will add pictures of the kids on the way to school.When we moved to Gramercy place where we had an acreage, he attended Twin Hills school. I believe that at the end of the term of his 5th grade his then teacher obtained a science kit that really excited Dan. He could hardly wait for the summer to be over so he could have access to that kit. Sometimes things do go awry and he was enrolled with a different teacher. She picked up on his frustration and informed Dan that she was weak in the field of science and asked him to be her helper. Dan came home and I dragged out my college science books and he devoured than and even started working on the periodic table.It was a happy year for Dan because of a very insightful teacher.
During this period Dan and Randy played Little League softball. Dan played catcher and Randy played an outfielder. I've forgotten the coaches name(Mr. McCullum, it just came to me) but he was a teacher and his boys were pals of Dan and Randy.We actually have some movie film that captured their excitement and enthusiasm of the game.
Each of the children had two ewes(that's female sheep for the urbanites) and we had a ram that was rather fierce.I have mentioned the ram in the segment on Randy's experience with him. Each years Dan's ewe produced two lambs. The other ewes had mainly single births.The lambs were born in March and by September we were ru;nning out of grass.We then sold them to Mr. Diiaz down the street who I am sure buthered them. They were like pets and we did't want the children to know their fate. If fact, when Dan was at Collette School his teacher took them to a supermarket,(Dan now puts in and owns supermarkets) and they took the students to the instore butcher shop were they actually processed much of the meat. At supper that night he asked if the meat was from that store. We assurred him that it was not so he agreed to eat the meat.
We also had mallard ducks, geese, a peacock,a guiena hen,two horses, a donkey, Cinnamin, my gift to Donna and Gus the goat which Donna gave to me for my birthday.The children hatched out eggs in an incubator and the closeness to the animals affected our later life.
Dan and Randy attended a Hunter gun training program at the Cornona police firling grounds.Dan's uncle,,Jim Entenman, gave Dan an Ithica 20 gauge shotgun, a real beauty.(It was made Ithica, N.Y. where years later Randy would get his MBA at Cornell)
Well, anyway, we all had guns and shoot our first mallards when we moved to Cdolorado. I cleaned them but no one at the table would eat them.We also laid in a blind near Ft.Collins and Randy shot a Canadian honker.The guy in the next blind claimed it and I went to the owner and he awarded the bird to Randy.
But his success was short lived for someone higher up gave it back to the other guy.
Oh yes, with the proceeds from the sale of his lambs, Dan invested it in Disney stock.
During this period Dan and Randy played Little League softball. Dan played catcher and Randy played an outfielder. I've forgotten the coaches name(Mr. McCullum, it just came to me) but he was a teacher and his boys were pals of Dan and Randy.We actually have some movie film that captured their excitement and enthusiasm of the game.
Each of the children had two ewes(that's female sheep for the urbanites) and we had a ram that was rather fierce.I have mentioned the ram in the segment on Randy's experience with him. Each years Dan's ewe produced two lambs. The other ewes had mainly single births.The lambs were born in March and by September we were ru;nning out of grass.We then sold them to Mr. Diiaz down the street who I am sure buthered them. They were like pets and we did't want the children to know their fate. If fact, when Dan was at Collette School his teacher took them to a supermarket,(Dan now puts in and owns supermarkets) and they took the students to the instore butcher shop were they actually processed much of the meat. At supper that night he asked if the meat was from that store. We assurred him that it was not so he agreed to eat the meat.
We also had mallard ducks, geese, a peacock,a guiena hen,two horses, a donkey, Cinnamin, my gift to Donna and Gus the goat which Donna gave to me for my birthday.The children hatched out eggs in an incubator and the closeness to the animals affected our later life.
Dan and Randy attended a Hunter gun training program at the Cornona police firling grounds.Dan's uncle,,Jim Entenman, gave Dan an Ithica 20 gauge shotgun, a real beauty.(It was made Ithica, N.Y. where years later Randy would get his MBA at Cornell)
Well, anyway, we all had guns and shoot our first mallards when we moved to Cdolorado. I cleaned them but no one at the table would eat them.We also laid in a blind near Ft.Collins and Randy shot a Canadian honker.The guy in the next blind claimed it and I went to the owner and he awarded the bird to Randy.
But his success was short lived for someone higher up gave it back to the other guy.
Oh yes, with the proceeds from the sale of his lambs, Dan invested it in Disney stock.
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