finished size: 57" × 80" finished blocks: 6 (20") BLOCKS
VIOL ETS UN DE R T HE H EDG E big blocks with a petite name
designed and made by TERRI VANDEN BOSCH
W
hile both sets of my grandparents were farmers, I lived just two miles from my
father’s parents. Oh, the memories I have of going to their dairy farm most every Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm for “lunch.” There would be freshbaked bars—usually 2 pans—because, according to Grandma, the first pan “didn’t turn out good enough.” I never understood that statement as each pan tasted the same to me and my 15 cousins that would show up. The bars would be served with cold milk fresh from the dairy bulk tank and mixed with a spoonful of dry powdered chocolate milk mix! I still buy this for myself when I am feeling nostalgic.
This set of grandparents lived in a classic Midwestern white farmhouse. And yes, at times the paint was peeling off, as there was much work to be done on the farm. I remember the long hedge of Bridal Veil bushes that separated the house from the farmyard. Such a sweet little white flower cluster that would adorn the bush. There would be violets all around the base of the bushes until their German Shepherd named King—it was always King even if they got a new dog, but I digress— would lay under the bushes to stay cool in the summer, waiting to greet us all as we would walk down the sidewalk to come for lunch.
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