I liked experimenting with electricity. I had a car horn. I would hook up the positive terminal to a battery, and when I hooked up the negative terminal, the horn would blow. Years later, when I was around thirty years old, I built a stereo amplifier, out of a kit. The amplifier had tubes, and they glowed with blue flickers, when playing.
Andy Wolfrum ran an electric line to our house. I wired our house with a plug, and two light fixture outlets, when I was about fourteen. I did it all by myself without any help. Nobody asked me to do it. I paid for it.
I worked for a farmer while I was in grade school. He had a device in his chicken house, which turned on the lights early in the morning. It was an alarm clock which dropped a handle, and turned on a switch, when the alarm went off. It impressed me.
I looked forward to Grandma Wolfrum’s cooking and baking. Her dandelion salads appealed to me, and her sugar cookies also.
My grandfather, Andy, would take me along, when he got food ground up for the animals. He would go to the bar, while he was there, and take me with him.
Thank you Nancy for the kind words.
I’m posting everything on STORYWORTH to my website.
Don Wolfrum, October 23, 2022
