Remember When?

When fall comes I always think back to our first fall in Alpine--October 1976.

Remember the turn of the road in front of the McDaniels house?
It was always covered with TONS of leaves! It was such a beautiful drive into Alpine and on up to Orchard Lane.

Remember when the beginning of the dirt road started just above the Rasmussens-- going over the little wooden bridge and winding our way up to our little dirt lane? That whole Jacobsen and Bunker neighborhood area was just a big field. Jill remember riding Sherri Scott's horse (what was its name?-Sugar Baby?) through that field and it just decided to lay down and eat in the middle of the ride?

Remember going with Dad to buy the apple press from the Browns by the elementary school? Remember making apple cider--and the batch of apple cider that sat out too long and got a little fermented?

Remember all of us sitting lined up on the back of the tractor (along with some cinderblocks) to weigh down the plow? We'd head into the house brown!

Remember water turns at 4:00 am, the racoons and owls? (JD was so good at treeing racoons)

Remember burn days--we'd get the hose and shovels and help burn weeds? that smell was so yucky!

Feel free to expand...my memories are flowing this morning...what great memories we had. We'll have to write all of our living in the quanset hut stories...I think I have some good pics.