February 17, 1963
Sun mostly sunny and warm high 25. Girls and I went to Sunday School and church. Carol was sick in church. Wayne brought Linda home in p.m.
Comment: There is an old country song with the line "we raise Cain on Saturday's but we go to church on Sunday." The boys and Dad did not always go to church on Sundays except when we were preteens, but we also never worked on Sundays other than the required chores to milk and feed the cattle, pig and chickens. Not sure where it came from but the family superstition was that if we worked unnecessarily on Sunday, any thing you accomplished would be countered by something bad happening in the near future. I recall mowing hay on Thursday or Friday, raking it into windrows to get it ready for baling on Saturday, then not bailing it on Sunday even with the threat of rain on Monday. And it did rain on that Monday. We then had to wait till the rain stopped and the hay partially dried then, laboriously "ted" the hay and re-rake it for bailing. A "tedder" is below. We would haul the tedder down the windrows and the tines on the back would kick the hay up in loose piles to hasten the drying process. We then had to rake it again for baling. Of course, if you did not have tedder, the hay fluffing would have to be done by hand with a pitchfork and that made some long days. I remember once when LaVerne and I were haying Kandora's place, (the Elmer Hubbard farm after it sold), we had a field cut and raked and the rain kept on until the hay molded in the windrows and we wound up burning it to get rid of it......
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God knew that in our human tendency to further our own interests, we would need opportunities for spiritual growth, to refocus on things of eternal importance. The Sabbath is an opportunity to break away from the pressures of everyday living.
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