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January 1982

9 entries

  1. Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

    Chess-Club Farmer

    I often return to an image of my father in the hayfield: plaid shirt darkened with sweat, straw hat pushed back, a stem of hay sometimes held loosely in the corner of his mouth like he belonged to an old…

  2. Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

    Event Date: Circa 1982–83

    Event Date: Circa 1982–83 Drafted: 2025-11-23 On a warm afternoon — I must have been eight or nine — Dad parked the WD near the pump house. He was fixing something small: maybe a belt, maybe the drawbar pin; he…

  3. Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

    Mader's

    As a child, Milwaukee felt less like a city than a foreign country. To get there from the Door Peninsula farm already felt like crossing worlds—leaving fields, machine sheds, and county roads for expressways, brick facades, traffic, and the unnerving…

  4. Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

    The Keeping of Things

    We had horses my whole childhood. That was one of the facts of the farmstead, as natural to me then as the barn, the garden, the chickens, the machine shed, the old trees. Horses were not decoration. They were part…

  5. Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

    The Salesmen at the Kitchen Table

    Two salesmen came to our kitchen table when I was young. One sold my parents knowledge. The other sold them death. That sounds too dramatic, maybe, but that is how it arranges itself in memory now. Both visits happened early,…

  6. Saturday, January 2, 1982

    Saturday, January 2, 1982

    One whole year since I've written in this. I hope I'll be able to stick to this this this year. Donny is in 1st grade and likes it very much. His teacher is Mrs. Killinger. He does very well in…

  7. Wednesday, January 27, 1982

    Wednesday, January 27, 1982

    This month has been unreal; the blizzards seem to come one after another. We've had very high winds and wind chills of -74 to -101 degrees and that's cold. Most of the blizzards come on weekends making it impossible to…

  8. Friday, January 29, 1982

    Friday, January 29, 1982

    Looks like we're going to have another cold weekend. Not as bad as the last few though. I had swollen glands today so I'm really not up to par today. Today we had a bunch of little Redpolls visit our…

  9. Saturday, January 30, 1982

    Saturday, January 30, 1982

    Today we had a wonderful time. First Keith had a meeting at church for the Neighborhood Spirit Group. While he was there I took Donny, Helen and Jena to the mall. After we went to lunch at Arby's then we…