My contribution today to National Poetry Month, or NaPoWiMo.
Happy the family that can work together to make their home more attractive!
Clean-up Time
When it’s clean-up week in springtime
and the winter’s past and gone;
when the balmy air of evening
signals summer’s coming on;
it is then I love to wander
when my day’s work is complete
through our friendly little village
greeting those I chance to meet.
There are things that strike my fancy
as I move along the way.
The impressions gained in childhood
are still holding good today;
for I love to see the parents
with the children large and small
clearing rubbish that has gathered
’round their home since previous fall.
I love to watch the children
and to hear them run and shout,
gathering sticks and bits of paper
that the wind has blown about.
And the father, too, is busy;
I can here him sing and chant
as he’s spading up the garden
for the seed they’re going to plant.
But there’s one thing holds attraction,
I don’t need to tell you what:
it’s the smudge that’s gently burning
in the corner of the lot
as the children pile fresh armfuls
of the rubbish which they bring.
It makes their home more cheery
after clean-up time in spring.
Written by a fellow Saskatchewan poet, Roy Lobb, born around 1893
Taken from his book PLAIN FOLKS, the second edition of which was published 1961 by Modern Press, Saskatoon, SK.
Mrs Goodnough, I have acquired an old family Bible from the Lobb family. It dates back to before their move to SK. Do you know of any living relatives, to forward the Bible to?
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No, I don’t. I know they settled in Beatty, in the Melfort district where my own people settled. Here’s the link tot he Melfort and District Museum; they may be able to give you some information: https://www.melfort.ca/p/melfort-district-museum
Here you can see the grave of Roy Lobb in the Beatty Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154237492/roy-leonard-lobb
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He is my husbands great grandfather if you still have it the family would love to arrange to get it home. His poem Ruth’s play things is about my husbands grandmother. My email is silverstar78@hotmail.com
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Roy Lobb is my husbands great grandfather. Great to see his work remembered and shared.
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He wrote many lovely, homey verses. I hope you can get in touch with Mr Hueckel and locate the Bible. 🙂
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