Another tree into the history books

I have been wanting to cut down this tree

for several years now and did do 

one of the three trunks a few years back.

Marie then told me she wanted to cut

it out due to all of the seeds that were 

coming off of it.

Well that was all it took and I went and got the

chainsaw and had the second trunk down before 

she knew what was happening.

This third trunk however would have taken out

power lines across the street if I had just cut it down.

So with Scott Jeffers help and tractor

I was hoisted into the tree where I cut off

several of the biggest limbs. 

 After that I came down again with the 

aid of the tractor bucket and Scott pushed 

on the tree the way that we wanted it to fall

and I notched it for the same direction and 

miracle of miracles it fell that direction just 

as we had planned it.

Zoey helps mom make cookies

So Grandma and Mommy had a helper 

making sugar cookies for Valentines Day.

She loved it.

Actually she was very excited about it.

U of U digitized images of Duchesne

Danen Lott found these images that were recently

digitized at the University of Utah.

Most of these pictures were from the era 

of history long before my time but most of these 

were while my father and his family were there.

They moved from Holden to Duchesne in 1913.

I cropped this image from one of the images

where more of Duchesne was in the image

but I wanted to get a close-up of the 

building where I attended K-6th grades.

It was torn down when I went to 7th grade 

in the high school across the street (1965-66).

I was playing marbles on the front walk

the day President Kennedy was killed in 1963
as he was riding in the motorcade in Dallas Texas.
I later visited the museum in 1972 while
serving my mission in Texas.

I ran across the bridge many times 

when walking home.

I also ran across the bridge many times 

when walking home. (Not sure if it is the
same bridge as in the other photo but Duchesne
had two bridges like this one.)

The Cozy Theater was in the center of these buildings.
We, Marie, Pauline and I, watched a movie there
the night Pauline and I graduated from high school.
I loved the nickel suckers because if you were lucky
one would have a star on the inside of the wrapper
and you would get another one for free.
That is where I saw Bambi for the first time and
couldn't watch it again for many years because of the
forest fire scenes. (I was pretty young when I saw it.)

My father was in the High Council

when this picture was taken.

He is fourth from the right on the back row. 

If I remember correctly this was one of two pinnacles
up strawberry river 20 miles more or less from Duchesne.

This reminds me of my Grandparent Poulson's home.
(I don't know if it was theirs or not.)

Our barn was used for dairy cows and I wonder also
if this is where the milk was taken each day.

This looks like it might be the road headed
East out of town just after crossing the river.

I have wondered if one or two of my 

uncles could have been in this image.