![]() When people say they want to be just like her and live a simple life, she'd tell them to just be themselves. ![]() It took her 3 years from start to finish. She made her brother a linen shirt from flax she grew herself, spun it into thread, wove it, and then sewed the shirt. He would always call out to the children "Don't fall off the barn." It turns out Edgar collected them all and hid them in the barn. When it came time for the hunt, no jelly beans could be found anywhere. Her pet crow, Edgar Allen Crow, followed her around as she hid jelly beans for the jelly bean hunt for her children one Easter. Her uncle sent her the cow when she got back to Connecticut along with her money.Īfter she grew up and had her own home Tasha had a menagerie of animals. Some other tidbits: her father owned a trained seal she bought her first cow when she was a teenager from an uncle with money she'd made by having a nursery school in the Bahamas while staying with her mother one winter. Her family felt she'd never succeed at anything-but she showed them she said. Tasha only made it through the 8th grade. Her mother also loved gardening and made a sunken garden. She said her mother surprised her with a dollhouse that took her a whole year to make since she had to do it in secret. ![]() Tasha was is in fact sitting in her own front parlor in 1996 talking about her childhood.how her father would read poetry that would give you goose shivers and how he could quote the Rubiayat of Omar Khyyam from memory.
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