Mom and Dad on the farm

This is a picture of my parents doing chores on one of the various farms where they lived and worked.

Mom said that my father spent most of his free time at his parents house and only came home in the evening to sleep and have sex.

His parents complained about the relationship and said that my mother needed to give up her stupid pursuits of art and literature and get a job to take care of her family.

My mother did have several jobs outside of the home but she finally threw my father out of her life when he refused to care about loosing a home they were purchasing in Milledgeville Illinois. They remained married but separated until I was fifteen. We had been going to craft fairs in Wisconsin and my mother and I needed my father to drive us to a fair due to a loss of Mom's transportation.

While Mom and I slept my father made a wrong turn and drove further into Wisconsin. When she awoke and discovered his mistake she began yelling at him at first and then as she cooled off she and I just began mocking Vernon in a way that I had been accustomed to doing. After this incident my father asserted himself by asking for and getting a divorce.