Digging a trench from Pat's new garage to her house for the electrical wiring conduit

More Daddy Pics

Fixing my Tractor's Transmission

Installing new head gaskets into my old Moto-Ski 440 Snowmobile

This old tractor had to be "split" in half to install a new clutch

Building a new stand to install my just painted and lettered mailbox - tractor bucket makes a convenient tool "bench"

My "new" Markstay shack, taken from the scissor lift

Building an irrigation system with my backhoe attachment

Just returned with a load of bales, some neighbour guys ready to help unload, after I fixed their UTV

In front of the chicken coup with one of my "kids"

Building a "Staircase" for the Goat Milking Parlour

Installing the "Staircase" with my Arc Welder

The neighbour kids over to play with Rosie

Installing a septic system for the Milking Parlour

Going up to install the new hayloft door

Excavating behind the Markstay shack to prepare the ground for the new Workshop.  The dirt was dumped into a low spot on the property.

(In his early Sixties)

Finishing the knee wall for Pat's new garage

Back shed at Markstay, the wood was from Pat's poplar forest and cut with my sawmill

Pat (at back) with her sister and niece

Playing with her sister in my Shack

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Goat pens using poles and trees on my 170 acre property, cut into lumber with my Sawmill. The black covering is discarded sandpaper sheets which protect the wood from the Goats 

Whenever I walked by, they'd stick their heads through the poles and "Maa" at me.

My New House in April, 2013

The temporary steps and landing I made at the front door, to get in and out. Bottom pic today.

Front yard, use the Blue Spruce Tree for reference, the only one left in the front yard, it's bigger now!

June 2, 2025 taken from the same place, to the right of the Spruce Tree.

Further back. The different cameras have different aspect ratios and focal lengths, as you can see.

Some similar older views are on my website.  The driveway is crying for its new "coat" of gravel.

It's hard to make out in the right photo, but every single evergreen, except the original, I planted (from the nursery), except the one that I transplanted from the back.  The large trees in the background can be seen, of course.  The cedars in front of the deck came in small pots.

June 2, 2025