Alan Skeoch

Month: March 2018

  • FLY CAMP…FROM PARADISE LODGE…YES PARADISE

    WHAT ARE THOSE  WHITE THINGS IN THE STEW POT?

    WE used canoes and a Cessna float plane on a fly camp west of Paradise Lodge … somewhere west of Paradise Lodge in that great wild boreal  forest that rolls  from

    Sault Ste Marie to Manitoba and beyond. Of course we did not get that far for we were not ‘coureurs de bois.’ We were just a bunch of 20 somethings doing a job that few people really wanted.   Oh sure, lots of people wished they had a job like this.  Lots of people wish they could roll back the time clock and become some kid of adventurer.  But if the chance ever comes,  most Canadians would turn it down.
    Take this  campsite.

  • Dinners 1) Mississauga 2) Yukon NOT QUITE THE SAME BUT BOTH DELIGHTFUL

    Dateline:  Mississauga in  March 2018, and Yukon Territory in summer 1961

    Tonight we celebrated our daughter in law Julie’s birthday at a fancy and fine Italian restaurant in Mississauga. All the trimmings…real knives, forks, spoon, bruschetta, wine, beer, spaghetti with shrimp, Irish coffee…in short THE WORKS.  Happy birthday, julie.  I have a recipe for you below.

    Then I came home and was combing through my mining days pictures, now converted to digital.  And what to my wondering eyes did appear but a supper in the bush.  Candlelight, dinner in a  washbasin (double duty), a bed made of balsam poles  and a bit of luxury with a real mattress.  This was the only job where a  real mattress was provided.  Never had  one that summer so do not know how this fellow, Bill Dunn, got this one.  Stole it probably, he was good  tat that kind of ting.  And he is all dressed for a fancy meal in long John;s…then ready for bed  after a basin full of slop.
    I am amazed at the number of people who wish they had the adventures that came with mining exploration.  Maybe this picture will change minds.

  • IRELAND 1960: “COW IN THE MINE,…OR SO I WAS TOLD.”

    Note:  Only sending this to a few friends…sounds too self-obsessed…too much about me…too silly…but true hence the pictures.  I cannot believe that Barney and I took such risks  but we did.  Sense of immortality reserved for risk taking males when they are 22years old.  Article is too long for casual reading so I know some of you will press delete.  Good.  Do it. Why did I write this?  Because my former boss, Dr. Paterson  is writing a book about geophysical prospecting in the 1950’s and  he wanted  some material that gives a little twist on the job.  I sent him one short article.  Then I wrote this whopper.

     IRELAND, 1960:  “COW IN MINE,…OR SO I WAS TOLD.”

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    March  2018

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Hunting angers farm owner Alan Skeoch 2010

    Marjorie found this on internet…sort of relates to BB gun story…old news from 2010?

    Hunting angers farm owner

    Oct 12, 2010 by Julie Slack Mississauga News

    When Alan Skeoch planted 10,000 red pine trees at the back of his hobby farm several years ago, he hoped it would encourage and protect wildlife.

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  • Water Divining…SNAKE IN THE WELL

    WATER DIVINING:  WHY?

    (FOUND SNAKE IN THE OLD  WELL)

    alan skeoch
    March  2018
    To find  underground water is about as easy as water sluicing off a Duck’s back.  So  here are a few tips for anyone interested.  My wife says very few people  are interested  in these stories but I will persist anyway.
    Here is  a picture  of our son Andrew, doing water divining.  Not sure  if he is a believer.  That silly grin seems  to indicate scepticism.

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