Coffee Maker for Christmas

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 […]

The Homemade camper

Back in the ’80s, my Dad decided to build a camper for our F-150 since we did a lot of camping and we had a family of 8.  My Dad who was a pretty handy guy built the camper out of tube steel that he welded together and then attached plywood to it.  It was […]

Dad’s stroke

This is a fairly long story, so you will have to bear with me. I was living at Middleton Idaho at the time which is about 40 minutes from Boise.  I decided that I wanted to get a new DVD player because the one that I had at the time was acting up.  So I […]

Fishing for chipmunks

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 vagabonds

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 […]

Spotlighting vs. the cruise

I asked dad to borrow the truck to go spotlighting (driving very fast while shooting rifles at poor little bunnies) and he refused. After several tries to get him to change his mind, I finally changed my tact and asked if I could borrow it to go on the cruise instead. I finally got him […]

Ford F150 and the motor mounts

Before you read this story, you really need to read the story about the camper for a good description of what was involved in this story! 🙂 Mom and Dad had lent me the truck and I was driving around with my friends (I can’t remember why I had borrowed the truck and where I […]