Yeller coming home from yet another trip to the vet to pull out porcupine needles from his month and staggering around like a drunk.  We soon discovered that it we…

Playing teeter-totter on the hay elevators in the Coulee.  Or how about the go cart we built, or playing hide-n-seek in the tall grass around our house.

When Fred proudly brought up to the house a snake he caught and as any good brother promptly started teasing Carol Jean with it.  He got it close enough to…

Washouts on the Lind Pacific that required a lot of faith from Dad, who was determined to get to church, and shouts of prayerful exclamations from Mom at the attempt…

Lee and Nadine Ostler (our first cousins) frequently came to spend the summers with us.  We remember one summer milking the cow all together.  Lee and Gary got the sides…

The year Dad was out of work and we had no money for Christmas.  We were living on our food storage.  For Christmas, Mom bought boxes of sugar cubes and…

Gene and Carol Jean were visiting Mom and Dad and decided to take a ride down to the coulee.  Dad, of course, wanted to take “a short-cut” across the mountain. …

Learning how to drive on the farm was great.  Of course the older kids got trained REALLY young on tractors & trucks.  When it came to Carol and Janene, we…

It was 1971 before we got our first television.  We were so excited.  Some of our favorites were The Big Valley, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Here Come the Brides, Bewitched, I…

Remembering the school plays Gary, Alane & Fred did in High School @ Chewelah.  Bell, Book & Candle and Tom Sawyer.  They always played lead roles.