Riley, here are some pictures that I thought you might enjoy. You may never get up here to see the homestead in person. You know most of the people in the pictures.
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|  MaryAnn and Pounder at log bridge over creek early in winter.
|  Same log in late winter. | |
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|  Ice Jam that washed out the first bridge.
|  Icebergs in campsites when ice jam against first bridge caused overflow. | |
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|  Second Bridge. We build each one higher and longer but even so this one has washed out once. (The first bridge has washed out three times. The first two times I didnt make it longer, just higher. This past summer I also lengthened it to 40 feet.)
|  Our Church has a campout here each August. | |
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|  A martin by the bird feeder at our home.
|  Red salmon in the creek. | |
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|  Frozen culvert caused equipment yard to flood.
|  Be careful with fire. Remember the grass past Parchman's. | |
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|  Pounder on temporary footbridge last summer. We hope that both bridges are now permanent.
|  Swans on pond at one corner of homestead. | |
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|  Enjoying one of our winter blackouts.
|  Looking over the fireweed crop in anticipation of making jelly. | |
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|  A cool morning.
|  Railroad tressle on the way to McCarthy. It is rapidly deteriorating. | |
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|  Neighbors Supercub at dusk.
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|  Snowslide on the way to Anchorage. Not uncommon in the spring.
|  Someone had knocked off all the signs which credited the US for funding a construction project on the Alaska Hwy. in Canada. | |
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|  Shorty when homesteading.
|  A break half way between Texas and Alaska. | |
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|  Evidence of our brief ill fated cattle raising project.
|  Peasant working in back yard. | |
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|  Inspecting clearing project.
|  Lost tourists and maples. | |
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|  Sitting about 100 Yds from SAAP ROW. in Boerne
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|  Kosciusko DeWitt Keith and wife Mary Jane McGaffey and children. Sumter is back center. Marianna Luling Keith (the first girl born in Luling) is beside Sumter.
|  Sumter, Maud, Helen, Lilian, and Shorty. | |
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|  Helen's eighth grade graduation. I think Mildred is in all these last three photographs.
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|  Helen's High School graduation class (informal)
|  Helen's High School graduation class (formal) | |
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