A MAN AND HIS MULE

One of the best ways to spend a Thursday is visiting Coloradolady. If you like vintage things, this is the place to be. Check it out at http://coloradolady.blogspot.com.
This is my Aunt Beulah and Uncle Creston that was in our local newspaper 2-13-1977. He was 80 years old and still plowing.

"Creston Hill has seen a lot in his eighty years. He's seen mankind go from making his living from the earth to making a living off of other people; but it hasn't changed him a bit!

Hill. who turned 80 this week, still plows his 40 acres the same way he did 35 years ago, raising a little corn, some potatoes, tomatoes, and other vegetable; "just enough to feed the family," as he terms it.

His family includes his wife of 60 years, three children, six grandchildren, "a few cows" and his 38 year old mule, which Hill has raised and used for plowing since it was born in 1939.

They make their own butter cause they do not like the "store bought kind", and used to fish a lot" but now spends most of his time in his garden. He said if he ever got sick and had to stay in the house, he'd "just give up".

As he turned to walk back toward his garden, he just smiled and said, "you're as young as you feel."

I hope you enjoyed a bit of history on part of my family. They were dear people with a home you love to visit.

Aunt Beulah was born in 1900 and passed away in 1986 at the age of 86.

Uncle Creston was born in 1897 and passed away in 1988 at the age of 91.