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CT: I was born in 1950 and I remember the milk coming to the
door. They still do.

SRL: As a little child, like five or six, we had three or four
-milk cows here on the ranch, and there was a little
pasteurization ... the little buildings are still there
across the road, and I can remember drinking the milk right
from the cow - warm milk (it was always kind of funny - I
liked my milk better cold).
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CT: Getting back to the dairy as far as chronology is conqerned,
he started the dairy, and he figured in order to have a
great dairy he needed a great bull. He knew the Bards, and
the Bards owned Prince Aggie. Did they raise him from
infancy?

SRL: I don't know- that, I don't know that. - He· was a·young· bull.

CT: So then your father bought Prince Aggie, and how long did he
have him before Prince Aggie was killed?_

SRL: I can remember when he was killed. I can remember the
agonies when he died; the days before he died, .trying to get
help arid trying to help him survive. It was agonizing.

SL: Did they shoot him? I doubt they told their.little girl.

SRL: I don't know, but I remember it was a big huge black cloud.
I have a lot of very early memories, and so many of
them are ... sensual. Like, the atmosphere, the scent, the
emotional feelings.

SL: This is a very sensual place; you're very much aware of
where you are. You feel this place.

SRL: I have one very vivid memory, when I was.a baby, taking a
nap. in a carriage, with what turned out to be a mosquito net
.over, on the south porch there. And there was a honeysuckle
vine that came up and over the roof there, and there was the
warmth, and the scent, and the bees, and just being very
lazy and in and out of sleep; hearing conversations of my
Mother, with my Aunt or other women friends. It was very
peaceful, very calm ... and that stays with me. It's the
darndest thing, and I was a baby in a crib.

CT: You probably weren't a year old.

SL: But the sounds and smells every season repeat the memory.

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