Remembering our cat Fluffy.  Whenever she had her kittens, it always seemed to be in one of our dresser drawers that we forgot to close!

Salesmen were the bane of Mom’s existence.  She despised them.  We remember her telling us to hide in the bedroom when they knocked on our door and to be very…

Family vacations were both entertaining and grueling.  We didn’t have air conditioning in the cars.  Dad was always trying to get somewhere faster than anyone else.  Looking at maps, he…

One summer we went on vacation to Canada.  We always loved Roger’s Golden Syrup and peaches on those trips.  (Emily says that Safeway has an “Old Fashioned” syrup that is…

We all had jobs at young ages.  Alane worked at a sewing company in Chewelah, Fred did logging with the Johnsons.  Carol & Janene worked at Doxies in Wilbur.  Gary…

Remember how Emily used to make out with the piano bench legs?  I think this is what finally prompted mom to make “Henry”

Feeding chickens was a daily chore for us, one that typically didn’t bother us too much.  But the chore we remember and came to dread was butchering the chickens.  Grandpa…

Because we had no other means of entertainment while living in the Coulee, books became a staple of entertainment.  We have many fond memories of Mom reading to the whole…

This is a difficult confession to make and maybe a bit too graphic for a cookbook but one of our fond memories includes the upstairs bathroom we girls created to…