Steve with his Valiant at 1806.First major improvement to the lane at Rabbit Hill. The object was to raise the height of the lane out of flood plain, to be able to drive back to the original gazebo without going thru MUD.Kathy at Rabbit Hill. BIG garden and Pretty Prairie Road in the background.Jerry with the pottery kiln he built at Rabbit Hill, near the creek. Wood form is shown in place.Jerry with his pottery kiln at Rabbit Hill, with wood form removed.Jerry, @ 1806Pat and Valient in the front yard. Note the bicycles and wood pile where we constantly sawed wood we picked up… for the wood furnacePat at Rabbit HillDorothy (smiling), Ron (thinks he’s smiling), and Pat at Rabbit Hill.Pete and Kathy at Rabbit Hill. Trivia: Note the old brown trailer made by Steve, (way back in the background), that we hooked onto the van to carry EVERYTHING back and forth between 1806 and R.H.Kathy and Ron (who has been told to smile, and who now thinks he’s laughing).Jerry and his tractor in the backyard at 1806. The idea was to get it repaired so that we could use it out at Rabbit Hill 😉 From Jerry: “Mom and Dad working so hard to buy RH opened up all kinds of exciting things for all of us… all very cool and mind-expanding. Joe Rund sold it to us for $50 – it was a 1954 Massey-Harris row-front general utility tractor w/o a PTO, and after me messing around with it for quite some time, ultimately Steve repaired a cracked piston-sleeve and put a hydraulic front bucket on it as his first machine out at RH. I think he then sold it on to a guy up on Goldsberry Rd. Interestingly, 2017: We (Mary and Jerry) saw the same model being used as a piece of playground equipment in a park in New Zealand! It was nice to see one again. Steve 2017: You are correct, I actually also installed a back hoe on the machine (first back hoe), used it for a couple of years before buying the Ford 2000 tractor.Mike in 8th grade musical, Bells Are Ringing. Jenny in chorus in the back.Mike in 8th grade musical, Bells are Ringing. Mr. Mildon, the choir teacher, playing piano on left.Pat at Rabbit Hill, getting ready to go fishing in Moots CreekPete @ 1806 on his 8th birthday and Peg’s graduation from WLHSChris on reel, Pete pushing. Pete’s B-Day and Peg’s HS graduation at 1806Dan in backyard of 1806, on Pete’s 8th birthday and Peg’s graduationPeg at 1977 graduation from WL HS.Peg after graduation from WL HS. L-R: Mum, Peg. May/Jun/1977Willie rollin’ over with pleasure at Peg’s graduation. Peg holding Dan at 1806 in backyard.Kathy groovin’ to Steve’s radio in ’64 Valiant. Pete gettin into it too. Dan looking out to nature.Steve with ’64 Valiant (bought from Jim and Claudia Dahlke for $75). Had burned-out trany. Got replacement from Old-man-Richardson on Canal Rd).More land clearing and grading at Rabbit Hill. Probably Dave Cassini on the machine.The first cut to make the Rabbit Hill “overpass” between the barn and the meadow. Willie is checkin’ out the workmanship.Steve cutting trees for the clearing work for the first barn at Rabbit Hill..Pete at Rabbit Hill, playing in Moots CreekL-R: Pat, Mike (standing nearthe Renault), Jerry holding Dan. Peg in background.Jerry driving Mike’s red Renault, Mike as passenger.Mike in dining room of 1806.
Trivia: Note the typical size of TVs at the time (background). Some people had big cabinet TVs, with screens maybe twice this size.L-R: Willie, Chris, Pete, Mike, Princess Kathy, and Pat in 1806 front yard.Chris at 1806.
Trivia: This is the bedroom we created out of the upstairs wide place in the hallway (we called it “library” for some reason).
Chris has several speakers hooked up on a switch panel, a CB radio, and a heat lamp over his bed (was it cold up there??).Chris in his bedroom at 1806.Kathy in kitchen at 1806
Hint: Computer photo files just have a way of disappearing…for all sorts of reasons. Make screenshots for yourselves of the pix and captions of any that your kids might like to see in the far distant future.
