This page if for family members, both old and new, to reminisce.
Send your reminisces via the Contact Form and they will be included on this page.
From Margaret Warren (nee Mills)
Stories of Ric and Doug that Grandma Helen Hogg told me.
Dad, Richard Surguy Mills said to Ric and Doug (then ages 3&4)
“ Have you boys been taking any nails? There are nails all over the place.”
They assured him they had not.
That night Grandma Helen Hogg heard them talking in bed.
Doug – “We haven’t taken dad’s nails have we Ric?”
Ric – “No we haven’t”
Doug – “You know God is always making things. He has probably been dropping or spilling some.”
Ric agrees with that assumption.
(Comment: problem solved – sleep cometh!)
And another story:
Ric or Doug to the other –
“I wonder what the moon really is?”
A few suggestions.
“I think God is going around his rabbit traps with a lantern.”
Another problem solved!!
Another story about these times but not of our family.
A local family were driving home from Cowell to beyond Elbow Hill (horse and Buggy). Just out of Cowell the boys at the back started yelling. From the front their dad – “Shut up you kids, you are frightening the horse (horses)”
“But dad”
“Shut up! I said and don’t let me hear another word from you!”
Silence!
They arrived home 10+ miles. They got out.
Dad “Where’s Johnny?”
“He fell out just after we left Cowell. We yelled out but you wouldn’t let us tell you!”
More than 20 miles there and back to pick up Johnny.