Dad bought a Ham Radio that was “some assembly required” or in other words it was delivered as a kit and had to be assembled from scratch. The radio had hundreds if not thousands of transistors that had to be soldered on the board. The transistors had color stripes on them that told you what […]

The starter on my Mustang had died.  So I went down to Shucks and got a replacment starter, took it home and installed the new starter.  When I tried to turn the car over the starter would just smoke (literally).  After messing around with it for about an hour trying to get it to work […]

Once I joined the Air Force and got through tech school, I decided that I was finally ready to get my own car. I didn’t have any credit and the only way the bank would give me a loan was if someone co-signed for me. I asked Dad and he was adamant that he didn’t […]

There was a hole in the bathtub. I don’t remember how the hole got there, but it was there. The tub was one of those shower tub combo fiberglass units. It was the only semi-working tub in the house and since the family like to take soaker baths, what did we do? Replace the tub? […]

One year I was looking a good Christmas present for Dad. I looked and looked but couldn’t find anything that I wanted to get him.  Dad was always driving down to the Circle K (at the time) getting coffee, so I decided I would get him a little 4 cup coffee maker.  I knew Mom […]

Story of helping Dad with his computer in Boise…

Tell about memories of the camper that Dad built…

We were up camping one year and a little ways out of camp was a chipmunk hole in the ground. Every once in a while you would see a chipmunk pop his head out and take a look around. We had just eaten some watermelon and Dad go this idea to put the watermelon rind […]

Camping during one of our summer vacations, Dad decided that he wanted to see how much of the countryside we could take in during the duration of the trip.  Every other day, we would pack everything up and move to a new site.  The next to the last day we stopped at a camp site […]