Gardening and Visiting

March 10, 1937  John and I plowed the garden.  Mary took the Brandt girls visiting.  In the afternoon we took Mother and Helena along to visit Peter Rempels and Jake and Anna.

It was getting warm enough to start working the garden, so Cornelius and son John plowed the garden.  The tractor was too big to use in the garden, so they would have plowed it with horses.  Farmers always felt good when they started to get anything ready to plant.

And of course, there was visiting to do.  Daughter Mary took the Brandt girls around the Mennonite community.  We do not know who they were, but the day before Peter J. Loewens had been visiting the Siemens and had brought the Brandt girls along.  Peter J. Loewen was Cornelius’ good friend and neighbor from Manitoba, so they had probably brought the Brandt girls along with them to Meade to visit.  They were probably friends of Mary from her teenage years in Manitoba and no doubt did a lot of laughing and story-telling as they remembered good times in Canada. 

Cornelius and Margaret took her mother Katharina Reimer and sister Helena along visiting.  First, they went to visit Margaret’s sister, Peter and Aganetha Rempel.  And then they went to visit their children Jake and Anna.  Either they went to visit Jake and Anna, or Jake and Anna would come over frequently, so they must have been quite close.