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…

Alane remembers a time that she and Fred tried to convince Janene that her butterscotch pudding was really calf scours so that they could eat it.  That sort of thing…

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 was 1968, school was cancelled…well…

Emily tells a story of a vacation she remembers while in high school.  The trip was to Canada.  During a grocery store visit they loaded a cart with groceries, purchased…

One day 3 year old Emily and Mom got into an argument.  Emily was sent to her room.  After some time Emily came out of her room and sweetly asked…

Remember Emily’s little stuffed doll mom made for her.  I think she called him Henry.  Emily made out with him so much that his whole face was stained with dirty…

Living on a farm provided amenities that most children didn’t have.  Because we always had a trough that was big enough to water the cattle, we always had our own…

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 to her, “If we have…