Donald Plants Pumpikins

Each year we plant a garden one year to our surprise the entire garden was taken over by pumpkins. It turns out our son had gotten two packs of pumpkin seeds at school that he planted with out our knowing. He was very proud of his pumpkins.

Feathers and Don checking out their pumpkin patch.

The large pumpkins made great pies and the small ones cute decorations.

Hey can I have one!

Feathers comes to live with us

Feathers and her new home

Before we brought Feathers home as a pup I built her a new home to live in. When we picked up this precious little puffball it was decide right there her name would be Feathers. She loved my youngest son and they spent many happy hours playing together.

Cabin at Swede Creek

Dad and Mom

Warmer day, somewhere around -20 F.

Cabin and Old Dog Sled.

Dad built this with the help of a "First Nation" man as they are now called by the Canada folk. All the logs were fire killed. They had been made into a raft by the National Geographic Society and floated down to Dawson City. You can see two of our Dogs Sitka and Chena in these photos.

Dog Team on the Yukon River

Me on the River

Cowboy and his Dog Team

One Winter we lived in our Log Cabin at Swede Creek. These are a few photos of a Dog Team that would go by our place at the junction of Swede Creek and the Yukon River. The rivers freeze solid and become the highway system in the North. Dog Teams were used as a mode of transportation by some of the Sourdoughs. Cowboy lived up the River many miles from us.

Winter in Pa.

Our friends the Goats

When the children were young my husband took them to a goat farm and got three Nubian goats, one for each. They were all females and the idea was the children could learn some responsibility caring for them.

Before buying the goats we had fence off almost an acre of land and built a nice little barn for them to live in complete with a wood milking stanchion. In the midst of the fenced land was a section of large stumps that had been left when we first built on the land, later they would become a play ground for the goats and children.

When the goats came to our home they were all expecting and soon we had five new kids. The goats of the girls each had given birth to twins which made them very happy as they also are twins. The goats seemed to crave attention and loved it when the children would play with them. They would spend hours together climbing the stumps and jumping off. Each day the children would go out and pet, brush, and feed their goats. They were good about giving them fresh straw to lay in and cleaning the barn.

We lived on the Oregon Coast were the rain fall is abundant and soon found out the Nubian Goat hates the rain. They would stay in their barn all day looking out at the rain and every once in a while let out a bawl. When the winter storms hit with the thunder and lighting they would began to bawl then they would make a dash for the house crashing through the fence and up onto the front deck. At this time we had an electric fence to keep them in. They seemed to know that it was going to hurt and would scream before they hit it and continue until they were through.

We kept them through one winter and decided we were not setup properly so sold them the next summer. A few years later we would get a mother and two kids for our son we kept them two years before selling them also. The children have fond memories of their goats to this day.