*tabernash, colorado

inheritance
Buds grandmother had died, and he received an inheritance, which we bought the house with and moved in, not knowing how cold the weather was up there.

“With his last wage we brought flour, sugar, beans, potatoes, lord and 3 tons of coal. We lived close to a man that sold milk, I got a job cleaning his dairy once a day for milk, which helped a lot.”
We lived in Tabernash for 6 years. I saw my children grow up there. Tabernash was named after an Indian Chief. I will try to remember some of the important thing that happened there.
The first year was getting used to the cold. The kids went to school. Our neighbor gives us a coal heater for heat and we sleep in the two rooms. That summer the railroad had some big glass windows to give away and an old house. I got the window and house and had Bud build a long room on the south side, of the dining room and kitchen of the house for bedrooms. Bud built two closets, one at each end of the long room. The girls slept on one end and the boys on the other. So they would not all be sleeping together.
I had Bud take out the closet in our bedroom and put a partition in the center, We moved the kitchen to where the pantry was and we made the kitchen into a dining room

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