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\u201cEverything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Pablo Neruda<\/strong>~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had all the farm animals on the ranch. Horses, cows, pig, chickens, turkeys, and sheep sometimes. Mother usually raised bum lambs and it was our bad luck to help! How I hated giving those bum lambs their bottle of milk. We of course had cats and usually two dogs, and they were working dogs, by that I mean they helped round up and control stock. We had a big gray blue shepherd named Blue, and Dad would say \u201cWay round \u2018em Blue\u201d And the dog would circle them in. How we loved old Blue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessie’s father, Roy Moore <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Update. This was written on the back of the above photo, in a child’s hand:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

” Dad and the colts Dinahs in the back Pride with Dad.”<\/strong><\/em> It must have made sense to the<\/em> author at the time! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know who Violet is, but Sis is my mom, Jessie<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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All of us had to make our own fun, and playthings, too. In the 1920\u2019s and 30\u2019s the economy was terribly depressed, or as that period was called, \u201cThe Depression\u201d. Very seldom was there any extra money. We always had plenty to eat. The folks always had a garden, chickens, eggs, pigs and cows for meat. Also on the Matlock Ranch, where I was born, there was a big orchard, four different kinds of apples, a red and white currant patch, a raspberry patch, and even some gooseberries. I decided to sit up in the branches of an apple tree in the fall and eat apples, make up and write poems, then I would stuff them in the knot holes in the trees. We also had plum trees, some large and some were small. I didn\u2019t care much for the little ones because they were sour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roy Moore, Ricky Dunn (son of Ethena), Claudia Bradley Moore.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I would never trade my childhood for anything even though there were times when it was hard. I grew up as did my brothers and sisters with good values and principles for honesty and decency taught us by our parents. Our Dad used to tell us: “Look your fellow man in the eye and tell the truth and you won\u2019t go too wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roy Moore and neighbor children, I think their last name was Reagle.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bob Reagle (with Bertie on his shoulders<\/b><\/span>), Thena and Ray.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Thena front left and Bertie top right. I’m not sure of the identities of the others.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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