Grandpa Coon

Actual Photo of Prophet Joseph Smith

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Wow ! Have you Guys seen this " NEW DISCOVERY" of the only Photo ever taken of the Prophet Joseph Smith . The Reorganized Church only recently uncoved it in their Archives and asked our church to help authenticate it. The Church has stated that it is "Almost certainly Authentic ". All of the exsisting "Photos " of the prophet are

artist conceptions,most of which were taken from models made from the death mask after joseph had died . This Photo is Reported taken of at the time of Him at the time of his incareation in the liberty jail. The Article in meridian says the church has actualy had the photo for a couple of years working on its authentication . This is ment to be a testimony builder and to confirm that our church is the true church and that joseph smith was a prophet and the founder of the true church .

The Teton Flood

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In Reviewing the teton Flood to see Pictures be sure to see older blogs after the story that have been posted , pictures tell more than stories .

Prelude to the Teton Dam Flood

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this June 5 2009 will be 33 Years Since the Teton Dam Broke , Flooding the Upper Snake River Valley with 80 Billions of Water between St.Anthony - Roberts - Idaho Falls - Blackfoot and to American Falls . It was the Worst Disaster this area had ever seen , so i think it is only fitting to relive Part of History that happen in this area and what occured .

11:57 A.M. June 5,1976 is a date that will fore ever be etched in my mind. This was on a Saturday,while i was Roadmaster at Idaho Falls. I was on Weekend duty , I had the Radio on and was listening to Music, When a flash Bullentin was Announced " The Teton Dam has Breached "
I quickly got ahold of the Train Dispacher and told him to stop all trains on the 4th Subdivison, as all of our Locals were just coming on Duty at Idaho Falls, Then i got ahold of My Section Forman
at Newdale. I told him what was up and told him to check the Bridge just above Newdale. The Bridge was a 3 Span Tresel Bridge about 75 Ft. High. He called in about 15 Minutes in a Shook up voice , Saying the bridge no longer exsists, its been washed away .I knew right away the Crap had hit the Fan.

The Superindent Ed May and my Chief Engineer were at Sun Valley at a shippers convention. so i called and got ahold of them . They told me to hang tight in the Office, they called back in 15 Minutes and said there is a helicopter awaiting at the Idaho Falls Airport for me and they wanted me in the air to give them a quick assement of where i thought we would lose our railroad , We was over Sugar city just as the flood hit Sugar City . We witness what you could call a war zone . The destruction was un believable .when we got back to idaho falls , the Estimate that i gave to them was within 1 Mile of What Occured. We was able to restore all the Railroad track in seven days , It was a feat never before done on the union Pacic railroad. One day we unloaded 1200 car of ballast and one day between Sugar city and Rexburg we laid 2 miles of Track panels .The Railroad had the Laramie Panel yards working 24 hour shifts in trying to stay ahead of us. also the Simplot ballast plant at Pocatello was on a 24 hour Shift . We worked 7 days in a row with 18 hour days . when we had completed our task the railroad back into sevice .Ed May , Our Superindent brought all the section Gangs in the San Piper at Idaho Falls to buy super which was a very big Rib Steak. He singled me out , Saying that we had a man who worked like a horse in restoring the Railroad and by golly he was going to feed me like a horse, he had another steak even bigger than the First one and placed it before me ( I ate both of Them )

Onething that i would like to focus on, People always said that Idaho Falls was somehow spared major damage, But Local New 8 had a great quote from T.J.Wadworth who said "( Idaho Falls was) the City that saved itself because from major damage by the virtue of over 10,000 residents showing up to sand bag the River Banks , you can imagine what would have happened if those residents had not worked so quickly. Blackfoot down the rive sustained major flooding

another thing that i have thought over and over is what would have happened if the dam had broke at night when ever body was asleep instead of at noon . I shudder to think of what the impact of the flood would have been then

As you Look at the Story of the teton Dam Flood ,when you look at the story if you view the
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11:57 when the dam breached on june 5,1976

a airplane wrecked at rexburg

house damage in rexburg , as you view the havoc and the look on the people faces , it almost made you cry , it made you feel sad knowing that you was helpless . and that you could feel the grief going through these people .

this is the old overpass going into st.anthony. the flood destroyed the overpass , this was the northern section of the flood of where we lost then railroad all the way to rexburg , a total of 10 miles

Flood01

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Car Damage in the Rexburg Area and debris ever where

Trailer Park at Rexburg , not only was the devestion bad , but the smell of rotting animals some times would almost knock you over

house in the st.anthony area

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house in ruins in the st.anthony area

This is a pile of farm Machinery mangled by the Flood just north of the overpass into St.Anthony . the water was 20 ft.deep trough out this area . the force of the water causing havoc was unbeliavable

This View is west of Menan showing how the flood twisted and wrecked the Track The track was lost 1 mile west of Menan to Plano just west of St.Anthony , We had a couple of big tressel Bridges through this Area and the cost would have been Forbidden a distance of 20 miles was lost , so this was never rebuilt .This area was hit very hard by the flood

View of Rexburg downhill north from 2 nd South and College Ave . Rexburg had 6-8 ft of waterin this View

Feb.2 - The Day i thought I died & went to Heaven

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Story = Becca posted her whole wheat recipe on her blog . so we decided we would try it . now we did not have a Kitchen Aid Mixer . So we did not want to reduce the recipe so we went and got us a new Kitchen Aid . Which is something that both of us have wanted for a life time . The Picture only showed 6 Loafes But there was 7 before i Gobbled One up . When we went to Big John's in Pocatello to get the Gluton , The Owners wife said she uses 2 Cans of Glutin , One a Wheat Blutin and the other Grandma's Glutin , 2 Heaping teaspoons of Each, although the 7 loafes figured to cost $ 57.00 A Piece . and then we made Becca's Chicken soupe . I ate 3 Big bowls of Soupe and a Loaf of Bread , That Bread was out of this world , I had a ball making the bread , i never had used a wheat grinder , and you did not have to kneed the Bread , The Kitchen aid did all the Work , We love to Kitchen aid so much , it just might become my sleeping Pardner. you Grandkids needs to tell up old people about these new things , after you spend a life time making bread over a camp fire we need to know about the Progress of the World. All i can say Mover over Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay , Cause there is a mean lean new cook in town . and by the way becca ,, keep those Recipes coming , Both of these were Out of this World

memorial to my 3rd great grandfather

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This Memorial is of my 3rd great-grandparents Randolph & Myzra Nix Alexander - A little story

as follows . on April 12,1842, Randolph attended a meeting of the lodge.the twelve Apostles were there,and it was voted that Randolph would go on a Mission to the South to preach the Gospel. Randolph became a convert to the church through the laborers of Wilford Wooddruff.Randolph was a member of the Nauvoo 1ST ward. Randolph moved his family after 1836 to Missouri to be with the saints,there he lived 2 miles south of Far West,Missouri, then to Nauvoo,Then to Winter quarters,then to Utah with one mule and a milk cow to pull the Family belongings, The family Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley Sept.28.1847 , Settling in Parles Canyon. , one of His Daughters name Adeline Alexander. Adeline was nine years old when the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed and she saw the the bodies of Hyrum and Joseph after the were prepared for Burial. She remembered sitting on joseph knee and talking to him many times. She and her family were at the meeting when the saints voted to substain Bringham Young as the head of the Church. at age of 15 ,she married Milo Adrus,he was 21 years older and had other wifes and children, she was not in love with him, but her father convinced her that the marriage was right , she lived in a little house in Bringham Canyon, but she did not see her husband very often, she did however bear him 5 children, milo visted shortly before randolph was born , but due to other buisness left again , when adeline gave birth to the baby m she lay hemoraragin for three days untill a neigbor noticed no smoke from the chimley, adeline went to bringham young and told him of her hardships , he allowed her a divorice on june 6,1864 . adeline later married andrew sproul and bore him 7 children , on sept.26,1911.andrew & adeline were returng home from the st.george temple when the horses became frighten and ran away , adeline was thrown out and killed instanly .

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This Picture Is Mom & Dad on their 50 th Wedding . You Grandkids were a little to young to know them very well , So am going to tell you a story so you can know them Better . My dad and me had a very special relationship , we was not father and son , we were Buddies ,on our hunting trips , One time i recalled we was hunting on House Mt. which is just above Pine,Idaho when we got lost . Now dad could out walk a horse and he had amazing strength for walking ,this was when i was about 17 years old , But he had reached the stage when he said ,i have had it ,lets just shot a squirel and spend the night . well that scared me so bad , i took off walking taking 2 strides
for every step that he was taken . we must have walked 6 hrs at almost a run , we finally came to a road which a sign said house mt. 13 miles, he gave out and so i walkedthe 13 miles to get our car .
another time we was hunting on bennett Mt. just north of Hammett and a big band of deer ran across the road , i opened up and downed 7 deer before you could say " Jack Rabbit " , i turned to dad and said you want me to shot you one. He in turn said you killed enough deer to feed the whole town of hammet . on weekend we had an old row boat that we used to take into glenns ferry and then go down the snake river fishing for trout and sturgeons ,we always caught a lot of fish. we realy developed a close relation ship that most sons and fathers never have . we did all our hunting togather , Another time we was going elk hunting in to the Primitive area and we was going down a road and then i got an idea to play like the brakes went out of the truck with our 6 horses in it . dad almost jumped out of the truck .

my mom was a gentle woman , i guess i was her favorite , i never did get a spanking ( not that i didnt deserve a few , she told a story that me and shirley made a pretty Potatoe salad to suprise
our folks, after they ate with out showing no remorse , they said next time to cook the potatoes
i guess i could go on all day , we had a lot of love in our house , I always regretted that i did not
have to time to develope the Relationship that i had with my father as with my sons because
of my career on the Railroad . Mom had been in the Boise Hospital because of a heart attack
on the Day that we was supposed to go get her and bring her home , we got a phone call from the hospital saying that she had just died , I still miss my parents , But we did the temple and the feeling was very strong ,i know that both of them accepted the temple work , and i know with out a doubt that we will all be togather in the here - after

One Of My Favorites Of Becca

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More Sturgeons

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DID YOU KNOW THAT ...... White Sturgeon are the largest freshwater fish in North America
. The largest white sturgeon on record weighed approximately 682 Kilograms ( KG) 1500 Lbs and was taken from the Snake River near Weiser ,Idaho in 1898 and was 17 feet in Length
( This to reaffirm my true stories about fishing for sturgeons on the snake river )
Be sure that you read the following story to give you a little more in sight .) love to hear your comments

STORY ABOUT STURGEONS

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the bobsey twins

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Coon Family

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Coon Clan

Sharla Ann

Allison & Grandma

Sharla Ann And Muffy

becca

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coon kids

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Hanna

Sharla Ann

Allison

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Katybug wrapping my Mom and dad and Aunt Ruth around her Finger

David

coon family

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Becca

The Coon Clan

Sharla Ann

The Coon musters

coon family

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Becca and Bonnie

Coon Munsters

Jerry & Bonnie

erry

Coon Family Kids

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Sharla Ann & Becca

Bonnie

Allison

more katybug

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More Katybug

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More KatyBug

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Katy Bug ( More OF)

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And Here We have KATYBUG

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On an earlier Picture i Mentioned Katy Bug got her Name from Her Hair , But after seeing her in these Photos , Her Pictures are as Qute as a Bug (Sorry Katy ) must have had a senior Moment in figuring out why you was Called Katybug , It was not the Hair ,

The Deatons

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Michelle

Deatons

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The Deatons

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Sharla Dawn

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There is a saying - " A Son is a son untill he marries his Wife. A Daughter is a Daughter for Life"

- The Old Wise One

The Coons

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We are Lucky having Pictures that Bring Back Memories

The Coon Clan

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When Katy was a baby, we called her Katy Bug , Cause anybody with that Hair had to be Part Bug- Sorry Katy

A Story of Patsy Jo

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One Day when we was Living in Idaho Falls on 1030 Homer St. We had a Visitor from Ogden, Utah , She intruduced herself as Patsy Jo Anderson and she was a little Shy , She started to Talk a little bit about Knowing Jerry our son because she had served a mission in Hong Kong , All at Once the Bells started ringing in old dads ears . But by then i had it all figured out , so I started asking a few questions that was kind of Personal . her face was getting Redder and Redder .and i finally said , Well i Guess we must Welcome you into the Family , As our Future Daughter in Law. by then her face was bright red , But she did stay around and Visted , She turned out to be a great Daughter in Law , of Whom i always very Proud and Respect her very Much .

Guess Who this Good Looking Couple Is

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And to tell you the Truth , I dont Think they have changed one little Bit after 57 Years , maybe a pound or two and may be a hair or two that has a touch of Grey in it

mollie with a sturgen

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Jerry Posted His Perch so old Grandpa decided to show one of his Fish , A stugen Caught out
of Snake River at Hammett which was a baby only 3 1/2 foot long . they were pretty good eating
you had to take the backbone out and Skin the Fish ,then Just Chop Steaks off . They tasted just like Halibut. This was caught on rod and Reel , I caught a lot of them this size up to 5 Ft , And then there is the story of a 12 ft.sturgen that got away But that is another story of the old Man and the Fish ( Spencer Tracy ) Ha Ha , Ive Got a lot a Fish Stories , but this blog would not hold them all.

jerry in his cow boy days

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jerry wearing granpa pecks cow boy boots. we could not keep him out of them .

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This is a Picture when i was Promoted to General Roadmaster , Idaho Division .1 will share a little Story with You . After i was promted to General Roadmaster , I was told that i was to be the Key Note Speaker at the Rail Road Conference in Chicago,Illinoios. . They were only 2500
People attending the Convention , you can Image how a little boy from idaho felt . It was one of the few times in my life , that I was Scared ) and i mean Realy Scared . on a Quite day , if you Listen very careful you can hear the Echo of my knees Knocking , But when it was over i got a
standing ovation for my talk , and later my speech was published in the Railroad Magazine
my Speech was on Snow Fighting on the Idaho Division with the Wedge Plow and the Rotary
Snow Plow . Each night after Convention was over , our eqipment dealers would take us out the Dinner . On one night , A Equipment Dealer that i happened to know , took 8 of us out to Dinner ,
We had Lobster and Salmon that had been flown in from Alaska , and a lot of Wine , A group
of musians play violins while we are . They realy put a show on, Jokely the Equipment Dealer
gave me the Check which was only $3500.00 , i about fell off my Chair ,

Well this is a little bit about the Good Life of Working on the Railroad

This is Each of Your GreatGrand Mother

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This is Each of you- Your Greatgrandmother , My Mother Irene Elizabeth Fisher In Morehead , Kansas

Bath Time with Jerry

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Believe you Me. Giving jerry a bath was like swimming, Both of you were going to get Very Wet
A Couple of Pictures from the Past like 50 years ago . Time Realy goes by fast .

Mollie in her Hay Day

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Jerry 10 Months at Nipton ,Calif.n Outfit Car

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getting even for you dads blog

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Ever so often , i get a terrible urge to play pratical jokes on people , i just cant not help it , it just over welms me, so i will share a story that none of you grandkids know about , i was not going to mention it as i told ali about it, but since he (Jerry)put that remark about hanging obamma, this to get even . many of you dont know that in the coon family , we have a deep spilt in politics, i am a hard democrat , although i have voted repulican a couple of times , but the good repulicans just never seem to show up . in the coon family -jerry - sharla - andy much to my dismay are all repulicans, the only bright spot is david and i are very vocal democrates . any way this part was to fill each of you in on the back ground , one day a couple of weeks after the election , i got this terrible urge to play this joke on sharla & Jerry . i called each of them and started out like this.
(Jerry & Sharla ) well i said, i guess i better fill you in on what is happening , ( This was right after i had the Pace Maker put in ) I am Feeling real tired after each day . they both said dad you have got to take care of your self and both of them rambled on and on , until i started feeling a little sorry for them , so i broke in and said no let me explain , Its because ive be dancing the Jig for three hours each day . Sharla was a little Huffy because she feel for it line-hook and sinker , But Jerry was the one was i realy cracked up on. for when i feed him the punch line , all he could do was in a little mousey voice , reply He- He as he knew old dad had put a good one very him, he was not in a good mood , when i asked him when he came out of hidding from the alfull defeat the repulicans went through, and he was not in a good mood when i said that we all must unite behind
our fellow "Coon " but at least for now all is well as jerry & Sharla are at least Speaking to dear old Dad . Hope each of you gets a chuckle out of this Story .

Porchea 1 Month Brandies Baby

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Posted Couple of Pictures Brandies Baby as she came over Yesterday , I have had a couple of you ask Why dont you up date your blog , Well i Had a Senior Moment and Forgot My Pass Word to Sign On, That Why, But now i have Recovered

Brandies 1 Month Baby Poshua

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Hannah French

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These 2 Pictures of Salem Carpenter and Hannah French are my 2nd great grandparents

for all you coon girls these pictures are your 4th great grandparents. i was surfing the intenet

and found these ,a man named ryan carpenter posted them . i have been in touch with him

by e-mail , so far i have downloaded about 50 pictures of this carpenter family . i feel like i

struck a gold mine , i never had any pictures of this family , The man Ryan is sending me a

lot more Pictures , I guess no i know that the spirit of Elijah is still around .

salem carpenter

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Salem Carpenter

" All Shook UP"

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We caught " All shook up" on the Cima Hill between Las Vegas and Barstol, Calf . The train was going slow climbing up the hill , When i seen the big Turttle , so i jumped off the train and caught him , Almost did not catch the train after i caught the turttle . But anyway we had the Turttle for about 10 years , He used to love
eating Dandelions , and having his head scratched . We gave him away to my nephew Ricky Robertson

Enginner Coon

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This picture was taken in the East Los Angelos rail yard . They had a lot off old railroad engines , so we just

climbed in and took pictures .

jerry at 6 weeks

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Goliath(Grandpa) & David ( Jerry)

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jerry at 6 weeks

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jerry at 6 weeks

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Jerry & Mollie under joshua tree in Calf.

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jerry at sands,California

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this picture taken at sands,California between Los Vegas and Barstol, Calf. in the Mojabe Desert
in Death Valley , California . i was running a tie gang at the time .

jerry in cowboy boots

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We could not keep him out of his cow boy boots

jerry loving sharla

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jerry on horse

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Jerry used to ride this horse a lot . but he used to make it bounce all over the room , you realy had to watch your feet that a horse did not run over your toes .

jerry's first haircut by grandma coon he went to sleep

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Jerrys First Haircut by grandma coon , He started nodding his head and all at once he was sound asleep
while grandma was still cutting on his hair . We all got quite a kick out of him . When he would play , it was always at full speed , But when he got tired , He always went to sleep on his terms .

jerry's first haircut

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Grandpa & Grandma Wedding - 54 years Ago

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mom&Dad,Don & Shirley Family Picture

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Did you Know Granpa was a Math Geek

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In my Grade school ,grandpa was only an average Student , But when he got into high school ,he had a math teacher that realy motiviated him , as i took all kinds of math, Gen,Math- Algerbera 1 & 2 , Trig- Geomitry- Caculus - I got straight a's and My senior Year A + all the way through , My math teacher was my kind of teacher, he would take us on Field Trips for half a day and we was excused from Classes the rest of the day. He was always making you use your head . we would be walking down the halls going to next class , he would come up as ask to how far is a certain object was , and we would take out our Slide Rules and give him the answer right away , But the Grades that I recieved were because , I was the Teachers Pet , Nanny- Nanny - Nanny and i found out that if you were the teachers pet,You got good grades .

Grandpa Secret

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When i was 19 years old , I had a Souped up 1948 Ford Convertible . It had a Super charged air intake, 3/4 Cam . High Speed Transmission and Twin Smities for the tail pipe . During the Time of the Story ,I was working
Between Burns ,Oregon and Ontario , Oregon as Assist.Foreman , Any way on week ends i would drive home to Hammett , At Mountain Home their was a cop that always tried to catch me , it got so it was a game , I would as i approched Mountain Home , Put the Car in Secound Gear ( It used to go 85 MPH in Secound ) and Let the Smities Wake up the Town , and then the Cop would try to Catch Me , All he had was a old pickup , it probaly would not go over 60 MPH , any way he would turn on his siren and his Blinking Lights . I would let him get about a block away. then i would always leave him in the Dust . This was a regular Routine that we played for about 6 mouths when i worked in Oregon , Motto of this Story , When it come time for your kids to drive , Make sure you know what they are Doing . That old saying " Do what i tell you , Not what i Do Should apply in all Cases . The only thing about this story , My mom & dad did not know that their darling little boy
was up to no good at sometimes in his life .

Pictures From about 50 years ago

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Grandpa - Grandma - Jerry - Sharla

Jerry 3 years old & Sharla

Jerry at 24 Months

Jer & Shar Kind of Cutes wer'nt they

A Little Nap with my Baby Puppie

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know him ??? oh" blogs , its JERRY

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Senior Play " The Zombie"

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Shades of Gary Cooper , and John Wayne , I realize that a lot of our kids and Grandkids have been in plays or have starred in plays , But I wonder if they recieved their Tallent from old Grandpa , HAR, har, Har, Chuckle,

Chuckle

Finishing the Make up in my Senior Play

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In my Senior Year, l played the part of Doctor Watson which was the leading Part in the play "The Zombie"

I am the Person with the Mustach on the left part of the Screen . about the only thing that i can remember

is that we recieved 5 standing ovations after we had finished .

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Bonnie this one is for you to make you Laugh instead of Crying . This is my Freshman Initation , my Sister
Shirley is almost as tall as me, and dont laugh at my " Slender " legs . They were Built for Speed and remember
that about 15 years after this picture when Grandpa was a Union Pacific Tie Inspector ,That for 3 years Grandpa walked 20 miles every day and in those 3 years ,they was 3 of us doing this job and in the 3 years
We walked all the way from Los Angels - Portland , Oregon , And from Portland Oregan , to Omaha, Nebraska
and from Salina , Kansas to Cheyenne , Wyoming ever step of the way .

Grandpa and Grandma Secret

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Bonnie asked How i felt when we had our first child . I guess now is as good as time to Tell you all about Grandpa & Grandma's Secret . Before we got married Mollie was told that she Probaly would not be able have any Children and she told me why . As it was Mollie had to have a female operation before we was married and it was done in twin falls by a doctor schoul . But we loved each other very much and we went ahead of our plans to Marry regardless of what would happen . When Jerry our first born arrived , incidently the same doctor schoul who did the earlier operation on mollie was the same doctor who brought jerry into the world .
The Doctor came up to me after the Delivery and said " I guess you know that this is a miricle baby "
As to How i felt , Words could never Explain , But we do Consider all four Children as Miricle babies that
were given to us by our Father in Heaven .

Grandpa & Grandma First Date

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Our First date , it was a Blind date , Because we did not met before . The Date was set up by my Best Friend , a Guy named Ross Powers, We both was working as section jerries at Hammett , Ross Lived in Glenns Ferry. He was dating a girl named Datlene from Shoshone . She and Mollie Fixed Supper for us . and Belive it or not , We did not Kiss on our first date , But i think both of us . relized that we had found our mate for Life . but the parting speach from Mollie "Was When are we are we going to see each other again , " andi guess from that time
we was on a date ever week end . Untill we got Married about 6 Month later . And i Guess that if i had it do do over again, it would be with the Same Person .

Adam

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Hannah

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Eli

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Cody & a Hamster

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Andy & Dusty

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Jessica

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Becca and Bonnie

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andy

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jerry's family with mom & Dad

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deatons family

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Patsy and Katie

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Katie3

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Katie2

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Katie1

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Mollie

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Mollie

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Grandpa and Katie

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Michelle

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Brandon

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Bonnie Jo

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Bonnie Jo

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Becca & Bonnie

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Trains on Medbury Hill

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Picture #1 is Train coming on top of medbury Hill at reverse.

Picture #2 is a rotary snow plow used by the Oregon shoreline.

Picture #3 is cranking up at the bottom of Medbury Hill for a run.

Picture #4 is a train leaving West switch at Hammett for Medbury Hill.