Time transcripts of #12 Charlene Weyand My Parents Worked Hard for Me

[00:00:00.06]	They were, they might have wanted to read, 

[00:00:03.75]	but they were very busy, 

[00:00:05.32]	you know on the farm. 

[00:00:06.98]	Every minute they had to be working in the fields 

[00:00:11.05]	or with the animals or canning food, or tending the garden. 

[00:00:16.46]	It was very busy for them, so . . . 

[00:00:20.77]	My dad would, in the summers would work until

[00:00:24.38]	out in the fields until 10, 10:30 at night 

[00:00:26.52]	because it would be light in South Dakota. 

[00:00:28.44]	So, and got up, you know, 5:30 in the morning, so (laughs). 

[00:00:34.44]	They worked hard. They had lost their farm 

[00:00:38.82]	when they were first married and when Gene was born

[00:00:42.13]	because they didn't have enough money to pay for it 

[00:00:44.64]	because it was the Depression, and so

[00:00:48.16]	my parents never wanted to go through that again. 

[00:00:51.84]	That was a very hard experience for them. 

[00:00:54.98]	And so, they both worked really hard 

[00:00:58.19]	so that they could provide for their family, 

[00:01:01.85]	so I have to be grateful to them for that. 

[00:01:07.18]	They might not have read to me,