If the overalls fit -- Rubber duckies -- Edna -- All things Indian -- Pleasant Ridge School -- Reading, writing, and sledding -- A cold lunch program -- Do ghosts eat cake? -- Ida -- Putting powder on a pig -- Free-range chickens -- Charlotte -- Defense -- Hike to Steeple Rock -- In Gramp's shoes -- Farm forecasts -- The grasshopper -- Milking time -- Making hay while the sun shines -- Threshing on the ridge -- Getting up wood -- Down on the farm, TV style -- Memorial Day on Pleasant Ridge -- When angels wore bedsheets -- Minnie and Mae -- The church band -- The Catholics -- Hills and valleys -- Snowbound -- Mixed nuts -- Within walking distance -- The good life -- Steve Bryant, the storyteller -- Victor, the pig-cutter -- The pressure cooker -- Silas Breese -- Cursing like a farmwife -- The longs and the shorts of it -- Ain't that pretty -- Foods of the Ridge -- Good gardens -- Uncle Jake -- Raspberry queen of the Ridge -- A life of pie -- Crazy quilter -- Searching for my father -- Burying my father.