More old Pictures to Enjoy

Carl Merritt- my Grandpa about late 50's or early 60's?













Baby Delbert. He was about 18 months old.


















Carl Merritt, his sister Mabel (Merritt) Herron, with her husband (Carl) Vernon Herron. I bet they are at Boss, MO at the cemetary.
















Now we have Delbert Merritt, Dolores (Merritt) Milward and Helen (Merritt) Patton.
And Dolores (Merritt) Milward.

Old Pictures

I spent a couple of days scanning pictures at Dad's. I put a group on this site to share with everyone. I welcome all of your comments and hope everyone feels like they can post on this site.

This is a picture of Helen (Merritt) Patton with her grandparents Carl Merritt's Parents, John Wesley Merritt and (Amanda) Florence (Adams) Merritt. This picture has been cut apart and taped together. (I don't know anything more about the picture or what was done to it.

Pict of Ken & Helen Wedding with their Parents 1948

Debbie this is the picture that Colleen was talking about. You can not see Mom's shoes.

Gramma Merritt is Haunting Debbie

Debbie and Colleen are being psychic together today. Each calling the other at the same time. It is from Gramma Merritt. She had the powers. DA DA DA DA ooooho!

Hello All, I am visiting at Colleen's and Dad's. Trying to help dad with all the family tree info.

Jessie and Kelly

Today Lauren spent the day with the McFadden girls, Kelly and Jessie. Jeanne just brought her home and the girls are laughing and having a great time. Thanks so much for letting Lauren spend the day with you.

Lauren is Heading to NJDC Games

Hello All, Lauren and I are planning our trip to New Jersey. Lauren with about 12 of her friends are ready to compete in either the National or the Internation Junior Disabled sport events. Five of the kids will compete in the International games that are being held in NJ and the rest of the group will be competing in the National events.

Lauren is competing on the National level in swimming, field events and possibly archery. It will be a very busy week for all of us. I will post pictures when I have some. Last year the National games were in Spokane, WA. Here is a picture of Lauren and Alex para-sailing last year on a day off from the events. We drove in Idaho. It was beautiful. During another day from the games, Lauren went white water rafting with Kelly, Scott, George, Ariel, Alex, Jan, Eugene, and Jonathan. That was before she competed in her swimming events.

These are not the best quality but it is another of the flooding videos. We stood around watching after it was clear that we could not do anything more. I can't imagine how something so pretty can be so distructive. Out of time for today. Check for more later.

Video # 2

Some picts while all was under water.

Hello family and friends, I have been really busy and have failed to load a bunch of pictures, but you can be sure that someone is taking pictures. Here are a few I have about 6 short video's that Nicholas took that are truly amazing to watch. They show the levee getting topped. There are video clips taken minutes of each other and they show the power of the water. I don't know how many I can post here - so I might take a couple of days to add them all.

in no particuliar order

more picts all from this morning

From Wheat and Corn Field with Deer, to breeched levee,to flooded fields, to white peeks in less than 4 hours

This is some of the picture of the farm, some right before the water comes rushing thru after 5 days and nights of reinforcing the levee. Herds of deer are running thru this morning just stopping in the roads to watch all of us.

Thanks so much for all the help to Harold Y, David Bross, Kyle W. Nicholas, Ted and Phil and Herb. There are others I will fill in later. We are going to go take more pictures.

Who is DAN FRIZ?

As I sit here, Jeanne Bethmann is with me and is afraid that all of you don't know that Dan Friz is Cousin Barb Merritt's Husband. He is the Bassman, fisher. Please all try and make the Fundraiser that is coming this weekend.

Dan Friz Fundraiser BBQ is approaching -

We should all show our support of Barb and Dan Friz


You can check out info about Dan at
www.caringbridge.org

input danfriz and you will get to his page

The Flooding is making a Mark

Friends and Family, as you may know the rain poured and the rivers and creeks are flooded. We are fighting a battle that it seems we are winning -but there is a cost involved. The flood waters in St. Peters are about what the flood levels were back in 1973. That is dangerously high for local farms and many families. We are fortunate enough to have a Corp. of Engineers levee that was built after the Flood of 1993(when we had over 5 feet of water on the first floor of our home).

Herb and Phil, along with help from Kyle W, Harold Y, Nicholas, Ted and David Bross, have been raising the lower farm levee to attempt to keep the water off of the lower fields. Many of our fiends have not been as fortunate. We have been winning the water fight because of hard work, no sleep and the fact that other levees have been topped and then broken.

Jeanne and John Bethmann and John's brother Jim and Elaine have built a ring levee around their homes. It appears that they will keep the water out or their homes - but the crops this year are mostly lost.

This will truly be a very difficult year for farmers across many states. Fuel prices weren't bad enough!

The days are full of lots and lots

I am attempting to make a space to communicate better with family and friends and share life. Nicholas suggested that I try a "blog" instead of the other ideas that I was checking out. Let's give this a go to check out.

Mary