Hot Summer Days - Unloading Hay (Burt Ussery)

We had about 65 bales of hay to unload and we also had three grandkids that wanted to make a little money...so, it all worked out for the best! Cindy provided the leadership and direction and they unloaded the truck and I filled the barn. They had a good time!

Some Random Pictures from the 2010 Family Reunion

Here are some random pics provided by K'Lyn Schuessler. If you have any other pics or stories from the reunion - send them along. Comments are always welcome!

Scott-Shumate family pages (Created by Engle Scott)

Did you know a websit exists called SCOTT - SHUMATE FAMILY HISTORY (http://scottshumate.com/) that was created by Engle Scott? Check this out for photos, stories, information on our ancestors and other family information.

Shady Lane Barn (Submitted by Lois Vasey)

Here is a posting for Linc's Link blog. We are also attaching two pictures; one of the Shady Ln barn taken recently and another of the house which we think was taken in 1905. My Mother is on the right side of the balcony and I don't know who is on the left.

I have not heard very many stories about life at Shady Lane when Abraham & Mary Effie Scott lived there with the children (Ed, Ruth, Monroe, Silvey, Ralph and Doris). I do remember my mother, Ruth, showing me the stable where her “little pony” was kept. And, how she and a girl friend would ride to school—each taking quarter-of-a-mile turns walking and riding the pony.

She also remembered when Silvey was a baby in the buggy and the children (Ed, Ruth and Monroe) took a walk up the road north of the house where there was a hill. The big memory was letting the buggy glide down the hill giving baby Silvey a fast ride. I’m sure that was embedded in her mind because they probably got a proper scolding for that.

My parents were married in the living room, under the stained glass window at Shady Lane. That window is still there and can be seen on the north side of the house. I tried to purchase that window several years ago, but had no luck.

I’d love to hear other stories the first cousins may have of life on the farm.

Lois Vasey

Hey - It's Working

I see we now have reached a record of 6 followers on our Blog!!!! Yea...and we have 15 contacts...so at least folks are looking! Remember, send announcements, articles, fun stuff, etc., and I'll post it.

See you later Linc'sters!!!

Stop … And Listen (By Ninan Shumate Scott) - Submitted by Deb Scott

You go out in the evening and look at the sky and see the stars, slowly wheeling not only through the night but through the year, the seasons. Star patterns unchanging throughout your lifetime, the same constellations, the same Pole Star and Dipper and Eagle and Swan. And you see the moon progressing through its phases, from the thinnest golden crescent of a new moon to the fat, silver roundness of a full moon, to the late-rising moon on the wane, shrunken and wan. Moon phases that have been known to man since he first looked at the night sky.
You see sunrise and sunset, varying by a few minutes day after day, time, the passage of the seasons, the lunar months, the solar year, the days. Time hasn’t changed a noticeable fraction of a second in ten million years! The first man who stood on two feet and watched the sunrise and had a glimmering of wonder about time knew the same span of daylight that we know today, the same year. Grass grew as deliberately then as now, and the berry ripened in its own time.
But somewhere along the way man began to count not only the days, but the hours, the minutes, the seconds. Time was unchanged, but man was caught in his own time traps. The very echoes came to say, “Hurry, hurry, hurry!” And only now and then did anyone stop and ask, “Why, and what for?”
And look at the sun and the grass and the trees and know that they weren’t hurrying, and sit down and listen. The soft whisper they heard was the same, flowing through the hourglass, the same flow it has had since time began.

A note from Lucy Pierce (Cashew Clusters)

I don't know if Greg Scott reads e-mail, but he had made some cashew clusters for
the hospitality room in June that people really enjoyed and if you're printing
recipes that would be a good one to include. Lucy Pierce

Greg - if you send it along we can get it out to everyone!

Trip to Montana by the Usserys/Voths (Silvey/Wilbur)

In May, just after the last day of school, the Ussery and Voth families (Cindy & Tammy are the daughters of Wilbur - son of Silvey) took a trip to Montana to visit with Burt and Cindy's daughter and family (Ron and Billie Wright). They live on the Burnt Leather Ranch outside of Big Timber, MT.

We took Natasha Voth's horse and our two gators. We already had two horses up there so there was plenty of riding and having fun. While there we took a two day trip through Yellowstone...it was beautiful...even with the scattered snow.

We saw all the wildlife, both at Yellowstone and right at the ranch...elk, deer, bear, and of course buffalo. It is just beautiful there.

Here are a few pics from the trip.....

Love to all!

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