March 2024

March 2024
Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Friday, April 12, 2013

4-12-13 Incident At Hawk’s Hill

a book report by Ben

In the family, there’s William and Esther McDonald. They have four kids: John, Beth, Coral and Benjamin. Ben was very small for his age and had a way with animals. He could imitate animals and could get very close to wild animals. Ben didn’t mean to run away; he just was following a prairie hen. The hen took him far out into the prairie because she was leading him away from the nest. That’s how Ben got lost. It began to rain so Ben took cover in a badger hole. When the badger came back, she adopted him because a litter of her cubs had just died. While he lived with the badger, the badger fed Ben prairie hens, frogs, and other stuff. Back at home, they sent out a search party but after two months of looking, there was still no sign. The McDonald family was starting to give up hope. Would they find him? You’ll have to read this book, which is based on a true story, by Allan W. Eckert.

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