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Today is hot

Sketches of a family working in the fields and stopping to eat
"Today it is hot! En route to hoe potatoes in the field we stop in the garden to eat a lovely cantaloupe: this way they taste best! The flies are biting again: that means rain, we say..."

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Greta gathers hops

Sketches of a woman making yeast by hand in her yard
"Greet makes yeast: swirl honey and hops+ and flour in a crock with warm water and hang it in the back boxelder for fermenting. Every day she checks, swirls and smells until it is 'ripe'. Then she takes it down and uses a bit of it each time to set the yeast sponge for bread-making. Lisa and I have to upend manure sod (mennonite coal) for further drying...
+rather the water from boiling hops..."

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

small Sunday afternoon

Sketch of a group of children playing in the woods by the cowfence in their rural village in Manitoba
"On Sunday afternoons there's time to go to the woods or play in the cowfence. When the big girls ask us to go with them it's a special occasion. This time they're showing us how to hold dandelions under our chins to see if we like butter. They turn and nudge us away from and into the sun, each in turn. Annie and Helen, Agnes, Susie and Margaret; Abe, Betty and me, themselves Mary Tina and Tina who all like butter!

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

small Sunday afternoon continued

Text describing the continuation of children spending a Sunday afternoon.
"is as homely as her sister Mary pretty, and those angular features that look so good on Jacob don't on her. Distinctive she is, but it would take a Leonardo to notice it, and we don't know that yet. "Children, come for coffee," Margaret Kauenhofen calls, hurrying us to finish. The three Penners live next door, Annie, Helen and Tina, and go home. Susie Thiessen goes home, next door but one, and takes Nettie and Mary Froese, the Thiessens cousins along. Margaret and Agnes, mine and Betty's freidns respectively, stay. That makes us nine at table. During the week we've moved cooking and eating utensils into the summer kitchen where it's cool. Mary's made a cake and Margaret her usual large white buns. We spread butter and tangy cranberry jam , drink our coffee half milk. The smells are good, on Saturday we've cleaned the coffee kettle, Sunday we start fresh, each day we add some grounds through the week, simmered over breakfast and in between... taken to the fields in a narrow neck crock, picnics at work. The kitchen's fairly fly-free. On Saturdays and whenever delicious borscht and frying ham smell attract them, we chase out flies. Margaret is good at it, taking a dirty towel, shooing high and low like a whirling dervish to the open screen door and beyond, out, out, out!"

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

small Sunday afternoon ending

Sketch of children playing near and swimming in a creek near their homes, continuing to spend their Sunday afternoon,
"At our place and at Thiessens we talk at table. Penners don't. They are a large family, I think twelve. Maybe that's why they don't often eat elsewhere. They are a "brought together" family. Mr. Penner has lost one, no, two wives, they died, no other separations or divorce exist, and had children by each, Mrs. Penner had a family too and now they have Annie and Helen together. A boy baby in their old age dies soon after birth.
After Faspa it's time to get the milk cows home. We and Thiessens share a fence just outside Chortitz. It's always fun to do this. Sometimes Abram Thiessen and Jake Froese come too. Otherwise we seldom play outside, boys and girls, except in school hours. The boys may decide to strip and plunge into the creek, one hand between their legs, one over mouth and nose. We scream with excitement along with the boys 'tho at a respectable distance and guess who remembers the cows? On Sunday other village children come and it's great fun. They take a running leap to make the muddy water splash, no matter cows do their thing in it too."

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Flea methodology

Sketches of Marta and her siblings dealing with fleas in their bedclothes.
""Look how the beasts hide themselves in the seams! There - you must be quicker than they - get 'em between your thumbnails and squish them before they hop away!" says Greet. No one seems to know where these fleas come from that spread through the village now and then. Some say from the hay, some say from Mexico. We chuckle at those who still wear old-fashioned clothes. We call their high collars flea collars because they hide the telltale red dot flea bites!"

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Cow in the garden!

Sketches of a cow breaking into the family's garden, and the family chasing it out again
"Greet calls: "Children, come fend off! Yellow (one)'s in the garden! That old beast! That sneak-thief! She needs a ladder hung on her again!" We drive her out gently so she won't panic and trample yet more underfoot. Such a ladder is used only on young stock, and that only rarely..."

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

When the sun is two hands high

Sketch of a girl judging the time of day in order to determine when to bring the cows home
"When the sun is two hands high"

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Semlin sketch fragments

Fragments of sketches of a semlin, probably based on the one Marta's grandmother's family lived in once

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Figures

Sketches of various figures, possibly done as practice

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

House interior

Sketch of a family and the interior of a rural Mennonite house in Manitoba

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

Title Page

Handmade title page for Marta's sketches about her childhood on a rural Mennonite farm in Chortitz, Manitoba
"WHEN THE SUN
IS TWO
HANDS HIGH
SKETCHES
FROM MY CANADIAN PRAIRIE
MENNONITE VILLAGE CHILDHOOD
MARTA GOERTZEN
1923-2008"

Goertzen-Armin, Marta, 1923-2009

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