Strange things found in the forest

[ultrarunner]

Makes my family sound boring... not much except all fashioned work ethic... at least from Grandparents and Parents...

 

[Wagtail]

William Faulkner would have had a field day with my wife's family. He could have won at least one or two more Noble Prizes in Literature if he had written about her family. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

• Strong women
• Manipulative women
• Strong men
• Weak men
• S...x
• Marriage elopements to other states
• Money
• Poverty
• Drinking/Drunks
• Crime
• Great business decisions
• Control from the grave
• Droughts and failed crops
• Internal family strife
• Violence
• Failed promise
• Death bed apologies
• ...

I could go on and on and on. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

Heck, hire a ghost writer and get them published. Sounds like a series of books... 'changed names' or autobiographical, it sounds like it's got it all.

 

[Ed of all trades]

^^^ It's sounding more like an episode of the Waltons...

My grandmother grew up just down the road from there. Knew Earl and his family. From what she said it was not the Boldwin sisters That Ran the still.:shhh: Ed

 

[crash325]

On an old road, no longer in use, going to the healy ranch, I found a small gold coin. It is now lost.

In the white mountains, in a deep narrow canyon, there was a small rock hut built into the canyon wall. Lots of old cans outside it. Most notable was can shaped like a cabin and painted to look like a log cabin. That is how Log Cabin syrup was packaged long ago.

 

[ultrarunner]

My grandmother grew up just down the road from there. Knew Earl and his family. From what she said it was not the Boldwin sisters That Ran the still.:shhh: Ed

Old Judge Baldwin, the Baldwin Sisters and Papa's Recipe for what ails you...

 

[dmccarty]

Makes my family sound boring... not much except all fashioned work ethic... at least from Grandparents and Parents...

Boring is actually really good. :thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing: Being not bored is not all it is cut out to be sometimes.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Heck, hire a ghost writer and get them published. Sounds like a series of books... 'changed names' or autobiographical, it sounds like it's got it all.

I have thought about it... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Many in the family don't like me anyway since their usual methods of controlling men did not work with me. I told them in no uncertain terms, punctuated with adult language, on several occasions, what I thought of their control attempts. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: They backed off after a few years but that is yet another story to add to the list.

Writing about the family has been a thought of mine since there is so much subject matter but it would cause the wifey too much grief. Not that she would mind the stories, she has lived them, but because of the hassle she would get.

Later,
Dan

 

[turnkey4099]

On an old road, no longer in use, going to the healy ranch, I found a small gold coin. It is now lost.

In the white mountains, in a deep narrow canyon, there was a small rock hut built into the canyon wall. Lots of old cans outside it. Most notable was can shaped like a cabin and painted to look like a log cabin. That is how Log Cabin syrup was packaged long ago.

I "think" that we actually had a can or two of that when I was a young kid. Memory of those y ears is faint but I do know I have seen those cans before.

Harry K

 

[turnkey4099]

A Model A was also my first car... still have it today. With 5 million made they are still around in good numbers... several here on TBN have or owned Model A's

My only find in the wood of significance was a stash of old Model A parts...

The 'wheels' back in HS were mostly Model A with a few sprinkles of mid/late 30s. We could run the wheels off an "A" and get another one in a day for around $25. I wanted to kill one of my "buddies". His Grandmother died and willed him 'her car'. Went with hime to retrieve it. A pristine 1926 buick coupe (they called them something back thens, this was the 2door single seat. It had been garaged for many, many years jacked up on blocks. Odd shift pattern, it was jurst backwards from the normal. High was up and to the left. Anyhow within on season he had all the windows gonc, top chopped off. Generally ruined a car that would have been worth big bucks a few years later.

Harry K

 

[gsganzer]

I went elk hunting in Idaho near the Franck Church, River of no return wilderness, some years back. As we drove in, we went past the old Yankee Fork Gold Dredge. It was like seeing a time capsule. As we got deeper into the wilderness, you passed the old gold mining camps and cabins. We'd come across old dozers and other antiquated machinery just left to rust in the woods and some of the cabins were still pretty much intact. It had once been a gold camp with a population of 2500 at it's peak and you could see the scars of old roads, drainage and rock piles if you paid attention to the topography. A number of miles downstream from our campsite, there were some hot springs that flowed into the river. Over the years, people had arranged the river rocks to make pools that would blend the frigid river water with the hot springs. You could adjust the rocks ,like a regulator, to make the pool as hot or cold as you wanted it. After a few days of hard hiking, we took a "camp day" and soaked in the hot springs to ease our sore muscles, it was much needed.