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Barn Sour Silverbell

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

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Winter of ’68

While living in the Coulee which was 27 miles from the closest…well anything really…we had the worst snow storm of memory.  We think the year

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Tall Grass

While living in the “red house” in Block 89 in Ephrata, the lawn didn’t get mowed very often.  Dad would come in on occasion with

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Drama

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

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Mom’s Candy

If we caught Mom eating candy and we asked her what she was eating she would tell us that she was just chewing on her

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Out Cold

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

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