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  • FEAR: “ALAN, WE ARE GOING TO DIE!”

    FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…FEAR

    FEAR changes people.  The picture above is Marjorie today in 2018.  The picture below was taken in 1994 HIGH above western Newfoundland. We were wedged in an old Cessna 170 about 2,000  feet above the  Strait of Belle Isle heading north to L’Anse aux Meadows, one of the most mysterious UNESCO world heritage  sites  on this planet.   Why the fear?  Lots of reasons…Lots of reasons.

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  • Dad and Alan Skeoch…plowing and cultivating – ONE GLORIOUS SUMMER, 5th line, Erin twp, Wellington county

    Subject: Dad and Alan Skeoch…plowing and cultivating – ONE GLORIOUS SUMMER, 5th line, erin twp, wellington county
    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:04:02 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Alan Skeoch, Marjorie Skeoch

    ERIN TOWNSHIP, WELLINGTON COUNTY, 5063 FIFTH LINE: HARDSCRABBLE FARMING WITH RED SKEOCH AND HIS SON

    DAD may have called me A ‘goddamn fool’ but he did not mean it.  Actually he loved  fooling around with the old horse drawn junk I bought at auction sales.

    “Keep the  goddamn tractor in a straight line, I’ll manage the plow.  I could do a lot better with a team of horses that’s for sure.”

  • BUILDING A SCALE MODEL TRUCK FOR KIDS: around 1976 … GOOD TIMES.

    Subject: BUILDING A SCALE MODEL TRUCK FOR KIDS: around 1976 … GOOD TIMES.
    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:21:52 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Marjorie Skeoch

    Kids  arrived in droves  after  I built the truck  in my garage and wheeled it out to the front lawn.  Flattering.  Kevin, with the gun, looks about 8 or so…making the year of the picture 1976.  That’s Andrew on the left.

  • Kevin is distracted…WOODY IS NOT DISTRACTED!!

    Subject: Kevin is distracted…WOODY IS NOT DISTRACTED!!
    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:38:35 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch <alan.skeoch@rogers.com&gt;

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  • COLD CHINESE CHECKERS IN WINTER FARM HOUSE

    Subject: COLD CHINESE CHECKERS IN WINTER FARM HOUSE
    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:30:30 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Marjorie Skeoch
    BOARD GAMES!  HOW  JUVENILE!   Well, that may be so, but Marjorie  and  I play  about 20 games a week.  So  farm I have been  a winner of most but Marjorie  is catching up.  When she does, the  game will end.  Sore loser.   The kitchen of the farm house is about 9 degrees…cold.  Has been  so  ever since we moved  the wood  stove to the scrap yard and converted to central  heating.  Who can  afford central heating?  Grandma and  Grandpa  Freeman lived in this single room all winter…so cold in the rest of the house that there  were always icicles  and frost on the furniture.  They made do…probably played Chinese  checkers as well.   The checker board is home  made.

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