Alan Skeoch

Year: 2018

  • SKEOCH KIDS AT SCHOOL CIRCA 1914 SS NO. 3, NICHOL TWP. WELLINGTON COUNTY ONTARIO

    THE NICHOL TWP SKEOCH FARM REMAINED A BASE FOR THE FAMILY UNTIL 1979 WHEN NORMAN SKEOCH (TOO YOUNG TO BE IN PICTURE) DIED AND THE FARM HAD TO BE SOLD. SEE AUCTION SALE NOTICE IN FORTHCOMING EMAIL.

    SCHOOL   SS NO.3
    DATE   1914
    SKEOCH CHILDREN PRESENT:   JOHN  SKEOCH, ELIZABETH SKEOCH, ARNOLD SKEOCH, ARTHUR SKEOCH

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  • APPLE PIE FROM DUSTY APPLES featuring ROCK HARD PASTRY

    APPLE PIE FROM DUSTY APPLES featuring ROCK HARD PASTRY

    alan skeoch
    Feb. 2018

    For a few  years we constructed rural displays for Ivan Goring that were assembled at the Canadian National Exhibition and the

    Royal winter Fair.   Here is Kevin hoping that someone will come along to admire our work.

    At the end of this show we had to clear out our fanning mills, corn shellers,  … and one huge cast iron cook stove. Dad came along to help.  His help was always risky.  In this case he filled the cook stove oven  with as many apples as he could steal from the apple booth…about two bushels.  When we picked up the stove the oven door popped open and apples rolled like marbles all over the place…some of them even rolled to the apple booth.  Dad grinned. A bit embarrassed  I suppose.    He gathered up as many as he could.  He took no responsibility.   As I remember he used them to make his first apple pie at home.  His pastry was bullet hard…break your teeth hard…rock hard.  Mom and Marjorie said “You bought this pie!”  Dad got really miffed…hurt. “Made the goddamn thing from those apples.”  Do you mean the apples that rolled across the CNE floor?  Did you wash them, floor was dirty?” “Made it myself damnit all” “A little dust won’t hurt you.”  Mom went to check the garbage for dusty apple dealings.  Empty.  No evidence one way or the other.  One thing is for sure…this was the only apple pie Red Skeoch ever made…if he  really made it.
    Dad  left … horses were running at Woodbine  racetrack … said nothing … was a bit angry.   We were never sure he made that pie.  Ungrateful, I suppose.

    alan

  • LOOK WHAT I CAUGHT…MARJORIE AND SHADOW THE COONHOUND

  • Fwd: ALAN SKEOCH…CURLING PHOTO, GRENADIER POND

    ——– Forwarded Message ——–

    Subject: ALAN SKEOCH…CURLING PHOTO, GRENADIER POND
    Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:34:29 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch <alan.skeoch@rogers.com&gt;
    To: Kevin Skeoch <kevinskeoch@hotmail.com&gt;, askeoch@bellnet.ca, Cathie Stoesz <cstoesz@gmail.com&gt;

    JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS PICTURE…TAKEN ON GRENADIER POND, HIGH PARK YEARS AGO…KEVIN HAD SENT ME 

    THST RUSSIAN FIELD CAP FROM THE AFGHAN WAR…THE BUFFALO COAT (MAYBE BEAR) CAME FROM A FARM SALE PURCHASE….
    RIGHT NOW THIS PIC MAKES ME FEEL SAD…CANNOT CURL DUE TO TORN ACHILLES TENDON 

  • DAY WE GOT TRAPPED BY TIDE IN NEW ZEALAND

    THIS PIC GIVE SOME IDEA OF HOW  SHARP THE ROCKS  WERE WHEN WE GOT TRAPPED

    BY FAST RISING  TIDE IN NEW ZEALAND…ANDY HAD TO RESCUE MARJORIE.
    “WHAT WERE YOU DOING , ALAN?”
    “HISTORIC  MOMENT…HAD  TO CATCH IT ON MY CAMERA”