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Email: Donna@TimpyWorks.com
Phone: 715-822-4741
Mailing Address:
TimpyWorks
Box 672
Cumberland WI 54829
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The summer I celebrated my second birthday I had an imaginary friend
named Timpy. My family thought I was calling myself Timpy, so they
started calling me Timpy. Forty-eight years later my mom was still
writing me letters that began, "Dearest Timp." This was strictly
a family name; except for my sister's friends, no one outside our
family ever used this name for me.
This is the photo that mom carried in her billfold for 48 years,
and it's the story she told about this photo that prompted me to
call my business TimpyWorks.
The day this photo was taken my dad had finished building a teeter-totter
for my sister and the other big kids in the neighborhood. I was
told I was too little to play on it, so I gathered together some
materials and made my own teeter-totter. Mom said I played on it
all day, all the while grinning and saying, "Mine own teeter-totter." I
like that little kid's attitude, don't you? I don't remember that
day at all, but I'll just bet I was telling my imaginary friend
Timpy all about what a great teeter-totter I'd made, and encouraging
her to make one too!
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