Remember when they did the “Round-Ups” in Chewelah.  The guy who owned our place would hire a chuck wagon and all the cowboys who were

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

When we were growing up one of the highlights of our childhood was making homemade root beer as a family.  We had the whole shebang…bottles,

Living in the Coulee, we didn’t have television (home computers weren’t even thought of at that time) or telephone.  We typically had no trouble finding

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

Our farm was never without animals.  We always had our dogs and our cats.  I think Fred had Gerbils at one time. Janene had rabbits.

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

Carol Jean remembers a time in Chewelah when she and Fred were cleaning the calf stalls. It was a horrible, stinky job, and Fred said

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

We always had farm chores as children.  None of us remembers a time when we didn’t have a milk cow.  We milked a cow morning

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

One of the summers that Lee came to stay with us he introduced Grandpa to “rattlesnake eggs” which was an envelope with a wire shaped

One Christmas, when my kids were little, I realized that I was spending all of Christmas Day in the kitchen and missing out on watching

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

Did you know that Emily was a beauty queen?  Yep, her junior year she tried out and was awarded Junior Miss for Warden.  Fred and

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

Uncle Garth stayed weekdays with us while we lived in the coulee.  One evening when no adults were home, Fred and Alane entertained themselves by

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