Areial Updates

On Saturday Ron and I went for our overdue fly to check on water. The water is now causing a ruckus further downstream. Lots of these shots are downstream from Velva, in my old neighborhood and east.

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Erik and Nicki's place now. Myles and I established this place in 1980 after the flood years of the 70's. It is quite high and dry!



Lawrence Nelson's place. This is where my mother-in-law Lillian grew up. Her brother is Lawrence so the place is still in the family. His son Harry set up shop and house on the dry hillsides as well.





The following two pictures are of the Espeseth home place, where Myles and I lived the first six years of our marriage. Three of those years were big floods.




We lived in the house on the right edge of the photo. It was a log house built in 1897. It was cool in the summer and cold in the winter unless you never left home and kept the fires going.




The meadow road goes straight and then makes a 90 degree turn to end up where it is dry. During the 70's floods we had steel posts marking the road and we went in and out on a tractor. (no cab in those days) We also had a speed boat parked out by the mailbox and would motor over to where we kept the vehicles.




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