Grandma Gladys caught a fish all by herself.

We took the jet skis to Tropic res to see if they worked. They need some help, won't go very fast.

New front on my camper. Got the aluminum from a trailer down the lane.

I had Norris Brown and his son Dean help me put a new roof on the old house. We put 88 sheets of ply wood and 6 vents to help cool the attic. It was sure a lot of work to tear off the old wood shingles. We started work Sep 22 and finished on Oct 5 but only worked 7 days.

Handsom Jeff ready to go into the Air Force.

The Virgin river on it's way to Zion.

Jeff and I rode the 4 wheelers out to the mail drop. It was beautiful.

Computer station on the back porch

Note the deer looking out the new windows

Grandma in her new chair on the back porch near the new wood stove.

Happy to be back home after 4 days. Traveled 460 mi and need a shave.

Hiked in a neet slot canyon called cottonwood. You can walk through the cox comb in it.

Saw Grosener arch

Came home through Grand Staircase.

Fished Oak Creek res for some large Brook Trout but couldn't catch them.

beautiful country, too bad it is so far away.

Got a nice mess of brown trout the next morning in a small streem on the way to the east side of Boulder mountain.

night fishing at fish lake, only got one nice trout.

Ed, Becky and Gary at camp at Otter Creek, I caught a real nice 4lb trout there.

Gary Wright and Uncle Ed Markgraph went with me on a 90 mi atv ride from Antimony where we were camping to the top of Bolder mountain on the west side.

Cook lake Bolder MT.

Banelli. A place where livestock was raised and old water troughs.

Best rider in the club.

Neat look off over the Grand canyon in the distance.

Very old indian hogon.

Cool indian dwelling or something.

Pine Pockets

Visited Jarvis (Dunk Finleys ranch) in the sand hills with the ATV club.

Nice cool picknic in the shade on the edge of the Grand Canyon. We came here because the north rim is closed till May 15.

They look like they are holding on for dear life.

Annie and I with lava falls in the background.

Right next to the road. We could not believe he wasn't afraid of us.

Monday April 24 rough road but lots to see.

Zion is fabulous.

Dilworth and I went to Zion and hiked up to Angles landing(2.5 mi up). What a hike and very beautiful.

On the behive above Kanab by the TV towers.

My old friend Nolan Button took Jackie and I up to see some dinasaur tracks at seamans wash on flag point I think.

I have been doing a lot of hiking lately. This is me in the cracks at Salaradis.

New liviing room rug.

Laundry is up and running

I found a box of pottery and started gluing the peices together, there are quite a few missing but it was fun to see if I could make it look like a pot.

Me fixing the cracks in the LR ceiling. I will paint it tomorrow.

Allan helped me tear out the living room carpet Today Feb 21.

Sun set was beautiful.

Annie and I made this cool snow man Feb 20.

Tony Wright is letting me use his old ATV and I joined the ATV club.

Looks good doesn't it.

Room is mostly done now.

I kept the sink and counters but built the wall out to add R13 insulation.

Jackie's in heaven she is babysitting five days a week. Isn't he cute? 4 month old.

New plumbing and electrical for the laundry.

I found a nice hardwood floor under the lanolium.

Got the new windows in the old kitchen.

It's hard to see the wooden bowl on top but it is very cool, iron pot, old wooden boxes (Gladys says one looked like a butter mold). My black power stuff and a peace pipe I found in the dumster, a knife that Larry McCartee gave me and I made the sheath.

Kitchen junk.

Butter chern and an old table with dads' bread scale from the bakery.

More neat old tools. They must have belonged to my great grandfather Herbert Edwin Riggs.

I made this gun cabnet in High School. I think I was a junior?

Barbed wire collection. I guy that worked for dad (Dee Walls) gave them to him. I'm sure dad would like to see them displayed. Dates back to 1868.

Branding iron, log hook, drill, hay hooks, latch, handle, sheep sheers, brush, barrel spigot, clipper,pitchfork, screw driver, wrench, saw.

These are various moulding planes each cuts a unique shape.

I put some of dads "junk" on a board and hung them on the wall on the back porch.