My beginnings as a farm girl

When I first set up this blog, my goal was to tell the story of how I got involved in the soda vending business. I have been having so much fun telling how the current business is doing that I have neglected to tell how I got started. I am going to try to post a little about what is currently happening interspersed with short tidbits about my journey to this point. Below is the first little tidbit.

I was raised on a farm/ranch in the Texas Hill Country near Fredericksburg with my brother, parents, and grandparents. We raised cattle, sheep, goats, and hogs and farmed the food stock for them. I also raised chickens. As long as I can remember, I was given something to do to help out my family. We had milk cows that we milked for our own consumption. I remember my grandfather letting me help him milk the cows before I even got to school. By the time I was 7, I had my own cow to milk. My other grandfather taught my brother and I how to plant a garden when we were 4 or 5. We started helping harvest corn as soon as we could sit still enough to brush off the corn silks. When we could handle a knife, we started helping to butcher.