This was first posted April 19, 2015. It’s a busy time around here… We can put cows out on our BLM allotments now, so the guys have been working on that, and finally, today, I actually got to ride along! Yesterday was a process day… and everyone was there to help. Here’s Johnny working the…
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Fair Projects
This year’s extra fair projects have arrived. Two lambs each for Jaxon and Lacee. One pig each for Quinlan and Lorelei. It’s going to be “fairly” busy around here…
Thanks
My last trip to the physical therapist was today. Whoop, whoop! The guys at Worland Fyzical are amazing. I’ve gone from using a wheelchair to a walker to a cane to nothing. I’ve relearned how to walk without a limp, (who knew your brain keeps telling you to limp even if you don’t have to?)…
Changes
I’ve tried to create my top ten list for 2024, but I have had minor issues with my blog, and creating that list, unfortunately, is one of my difficulties. I’ve hired GoDaddy to work on things, but I haven’t heard about details yet. <big sigh> I’ll also recreate my link to Facebook, cure the comment…
Standouts
I had to get the grandkids to model their Christmas presents. All eight received these various Hi-Vis sweatshirts. Of course, three can’t be in the photo here, but here’s the rest of ‘em. Yes, I plan on sewing Reagan’s sleeves up for her… they only had adult sizes… but the coolest thing? They all came…
December 7 Continued
This is continued from yesterday’s post. ”I was sure that the whole ship had been blown out from under me. I wouldn’t let go of that pipe because I couldn’t see the floor. When the smoke cleared, I found myself about three inches from the floor. I just reached my toe down and stood up…
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The following is part of the papers in the Oscar Hoback collection as collected by Edna Greet. The Hole-in-the-Wall first gained a national notoriety through the train robbery at Wilcox, Wyoming, on June 2, 1899, The robbers left the Union Pacific railroad and headed north to Casper. Crossing the Platte on the Casper…
Back in the Day
So many of the old photos I’m going through are those of the Greet family. Not near as many belong to Vernon’s mother’s family, the Alexanders. I know very little about them other than Milton Alexander was caught up in the Spring Creek Raid as one of the “raiders” on that unfortunate night. After being…
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The following is part of the papers in the Oscar Hoback collection as collected by Edna Greet. Frank Davis, Alias “Black Mike” Frank Davis, alias “Black Mike Smith,” sneak thief, horse thief, check forger, and postoffice robber, on May 11, 1905, attempted to pass a forged check in the Wolton saloon, which caused…
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“I did not hunt any the next day but contented myself following the others around just keeping in Kodak range and trying to get a snap at one of them in the act of firing at game. But we had no luck and spent the second night in camp with nothing killed except the one…
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Written by E. L. Pyle, Bigtrails, Wyo. In the “Hole-in-the-wall” Country. Several years ago we received a letter from one of mother’s brothers, O. E. Hoback, (then a blacksmith in a small western town) describing a hunting trip in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. It has so interested every one…
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LIFE OF O. E. HOBACK as told to Edna Greet (Vernon’s grandmother) Additional Notes: 1907 to Nowood from Wolton, there three years. To Lost Cabin short time, driving state. Married early 1910, to Carl De Groot Sawmill in Natrona County, Wyoming at head of Buffalo Creek on east slope of Big Horn Mountains, Mary born. …