Remember when the skunk got in our basement and sprayed.  We all smelled like skunk, but didn’t really realize it until we got on the school bus and everybody started…

During a trip to Yellowstone, Dad got chased by a buffalo, Billy was bit by a bear, and Dad, Uncle Kenny, and Billy were scolded by the park rangers for…

Daddy was your ideal "fix-it" man.  Give him hot glue and there wasn't anything he couldn't put back together.  Even on the tightest budget, mom knew how to fix a…

Gary and Alane were included in a trip to Yellowstone.  It’s hard to remember ages but Alane was probably about 7 or 8 and Gary about 9 or 10.  Also…

Remember piling into the station wagon and going to the drive-in theatre.  I think we did this just about every weekend it seemed like (when we lived in the Coulee). …

Sheep can be very frustrating to work. In 1970 we went from running a 3000 cow ranch in the coulee to a farm in Deer Park with a herd of…

We also had a ¼ Shetland pony named Silverbell.  She was bigger than Smokey by a ways.  She was the most barn soured horse (meaning on every ride she would…

Remember playing fox and geese in the snow, or “No Bears are Out Tonight” How about the cliff climbing in the Coulee, then we’d play on the plateau on top.