Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Trains on Medbury Hill
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 #4 is a train leaving West switch at Hammett for Medbury Hill.
The Firecracker episode
when we live in hammett ,and i was about 11 years old , It was right after a 4th of July and i had a big box of Duds ( Firecrackers that did not go off ) and i devised of a brilant way of setting them off . I took a box ofMatches and soaked the wood only in karosene , then i would put the wooden end of the match in the firecracker , it realy worked great . i was having a lot of fun , but then i got a little careless and with out thinking i put the match end in the firecracker , and the Firecracker expoded . ( Now let me tell you about the firecracker , these firecrackers were what
they called blockbusters , they were about an 1 " in diamater and an inche long , and then they
went off , it was a pretty loud exposion ) now when the firecracker expoded in my hand , the force of it made me turn a backward somersault , and when i hit the ground on my feet ,I took off running as fast as i could to the back of our house , mother came running out to the front where i had been , but then she heard me come in the back door , my chest and face was covered with blood , and it realy scared us .
Lession - Dont let the kids play with fircrackers . Take it from your Grandpa as a word of advise.
they called blockbusters , they were about an 1 " in diamater and an inche long , and then they
went off , it was a pretty loud exposion ) now when the firecracker expoded in my hand , the force of it made me turn a backward somersault , and when i hit the ground on my feet ,I took off running as fast as i could to the back of our house , mother came running out to the front where i had been , but then she heard me come in the back door , my chest and face was covered with blood , and it realy scared us .
Lession - Dont let the kids play with fircrackers . Take it from your Grandpa as a word of advise.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
My Sheepherder days at Kimama
We moved to Kimama which is between Ditrich and Minidoka, Idaho. Dad was Section Foreman
there . I went to School in a one room school house where all the grades were taught by one teacher . my occupation there was chasing the bands of sheep to get all the bum lambs .in those days kimama had a railroad water tank where the band of sheep were watered if mom or dad could not find me . they would go to the nearest sheep wagon Before we moved back to Hammett , I had my total of 41 sheep .one of the sheep was a buck who did not like mother and would butt her in the behind everytime she got in his sight . all i ever heard was "Donnie, if you dont make that sheep behave , your going to be eating him for supper "in those day their was a lot of sheepherders with big bands of sheep sometime numbering in the 10,000 sheep in a band . at Kiamama there was two section Gangs and i Signal Maintainer . Just across the Railroad track was the abandon prison camp for the japanese held durring world war II
there . I went to School in a one room school house where all the grades were taught by one teacher . my occupation there was chasing the bands of sheep to get all the bum lambs .in those days kimama had a railroad water tank where the band of sheep were watered if mom or dad could not find me . they would go to the nearest sheep wagon Before we moved back to Hammett , I had my total of 41 sheep .one of the sheep was a buck who did not like mother and would butt her in the behind everytime she got in his sight . all i ever heard was "Donnie, if you dont make that sheep behave , your going to be eating him for supper "in those day their was a lot of sheepherders with big bands of sheep sometime numbering in the 10,000 sheep in a band . at Kiamama there was two section Gangs and i Signal Maintainer . Just across the Railroad track was the abandon prison camp for the japanese held durring world war II
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