Louise and I had a great week last week. Work commenced in earnest on the Call family farm just north of Afton, Wyo. We traveled there on Sunday afternoon and returned Thursday evening so that we could fulfill our temple assignments Friday and Saturday. Her brother, Don, is in charge of the barn building project the family is embarking upon so he naturally was there (No small sacrifice for him, he lives in Salt Lake). Also others of her family from Star Valley assisted and one sister traveled from Richland, ,Washington; another and her husband from Rexburg. Anyway, things will be ongoing through most of the summer. This trip much got done. The house was thoroughly cleaned out, much stuff sacked and sent to DI. The house will eventually be a museum so many items were also packaged and stored in the barn so that work can take place in the house. The house (which is where Louise was raised) is going to be rewired, new plumbing, with lots of repair, painting, wallpapering, etc. before moving museum items back in. Anyway, the barn had to be cleaned, pressure scrubbed, etc. before we could move items to store in it. We also sealed it to prevent little varmints (of which there are MANY) from getting in. To the south of the house, where the new barn is going to be built, we moved a shed with all of its contents, removed a lot of barbed wire fencing, and the gas house. We moved irrigation pipe which was stacked against the east fence back of the house and placed it out of sight behind the barn. A huge skunk was in one of them but he could not raise his tail inside the pipe so we blocked both ends, hauled it further away and took care of him. We also moved a mower and raker which was against the east fence. We moved two large water troughs which were just on the other side of the east fence to a field on the north side of the house. The property is leased to folks who have cattle and we wanted to get the cattle's gathering place farther away. We also moved the old "outhouse" to a less noticeable location. All during the four days we had a large bonfire going into which we threw everything (except steel and tires) that would burn and was not good enough for anything else. Several mattresses, old chairs, couches, miscellaneous partly rotted wood from here and there throughout the farm, old newspapers, clothes. Interestingly, you get a fire hot enough and it will burn about anything! Louise and her sister, Jill, walked US 89 in front of the farm and picked up litter; got four huge plastic bags full! All the stuff that could not be burned was hauled to the dump on Saturday, so we have been told.
This week we are not going up but Don and his bother, Ben, are and they will begin to excavate trench and place 3-inch water line from the two springs in the canyon to the house, approx. 3300 feet of line. They have to cross under two north-south canals that will be running water before too long. We're going back next week and they may start the foundation of the barn, 50' x 100' at that time. I don't believe there will be too many dull moments.
And so goes the story of what the K Goldsberrys have been up to, and will be for some time to come.
Blowout at 70 mph by Evanston, Wyo.
Louise, Lenna and Annie starting on the kitchen cleaning.
Removing fence posts
The Call farm extends back to the east into the mouth of the canyon.
The equipment we used belongs to family living in Star Valley.
Moving the gas house
From the porch of the house looking across US89. The people living there keep a little sprinkle of water running all winter long and it builds a pyramid.
Our fire got much larger than this many times.
Storing items in the barn
Louise and the dirty, messy job of cleaning the basement floor
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