Alan Skeoch

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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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  • FIRST STEAM SHOW…UNCLE FRANK FREEMAN…AND THE BB GUN INCIDENT

    Shot Eric in the ass with that BB gun.  Sorry about that.

    alan skeoch
    march 2018

    “Alan, you might be interested in the steam engine show that is being organized…old  things that really work…holding it on a farm not far from here.”

  • Kevin and Alan Skeoch on Great Wall of China

    KEVINS AND  ALAN SKEOCH ON THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

    (WITH SUITABLE HATS FOR THE OCCASION in 2014?)

    *I bought five of these hats from a  street vendor  we met on the climb the great wall.

  • 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