My Father's Birthday!

Today is my father's birthday... He was born 114 years ago today in Poland. 

And I was born ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 36 years later.

Here's a brief account of our family's early life in Hay Lakes, Alberta, written by my mother in 1994, the year my father died.

Here's the earliest photo I have of the two of us.

Strange, but I have no recollections of the inconveniences of NOT having an indoor bathroom. And I don't remember ever falling down those steep stairs. I DO remember standing at the bottom of the stairs and yelling for someone to help me come up! They seemed so high when I was a child.