Sally Six

Author's Biography

Sally was born one month early at the home of the local doctor in northern Wisconsin. A portable electric incubator was sent home with her mother to keep her warm but the family had no electricity but her mother did not inform the doctor of this fact.

She is the sister to two older brothers, one step brother and two half sisters. Her father was a lumberjack who worked for a lumber company when she was born that was reminiscent of the old song of selling your soul to the company store. He also worked for Sundstrand corp. in Rockford IL. for many years before going back to lumber Jacking. her mother was raised on a dairy farm, a house girl at 13, and later a waitress. Both parents were children of the 1930's Great Depression. The family lived in many places with no modern conveniences moving often to follow her father's work. Sally learned to love the great outdoors from a very early age, often following her dog along the bear paths, holding its tail of course.

Sally met and married her husband in Colorado in the early 1970's. She and her husband reared ten children and now enjoy their country home, even with all the work. Sally and her family lived throughout various parts of the country over the years including a farm in Missouri in the 1980's, Iowa, Virginia, Idaho, and Washington.

Her talents grew over time as she learned the various arts of farm living, colonial crafts, genealogy and writing. These talents have included sewing, tanning deer and elk hides, leather work, drying and canning various fruits and vegetables, cheese, soap and candle making, quilting, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, nal binding, beading and jewelry making, Indian crafts like Mandela's and dream catchers, raising farm animals like yaks and cattle, butchering various wild and domestic animals, hunting, primitive camping, fishing, gardening, and manufacturing items from raw wool prepared and spun at home, etc.

The books she has written are Down the Hole, Our Changed World, After The Dying Time Book One: To Catch A Wild Rose, An Unexpected Life, After the Dying Time Book Two: Gray's Heat, Shaken Sari, Seeing the Fire, The Empty Plains, Ruby's time Out, Ruby's Legacy, Have Mercy, Just Call Me Garbage: Cat Girl Of CWY, Running For Free Texas, My Son The T-rex?, and a cookbook Our Special Family Recipes.