Senior Year Book Photo
It was Don’s email back to Lucy in response to one of her “Happy Birthday Cousin” emails that inspired Daina to suggest that we share our memories.
Here is Don’s email.
Three memories I have from Axel & Else’s house at Hiway 99:
1) At that age, Dan Seaholt and I were lighting fire works in front of their new house on the Fourth of July. We lite a “buzz Bomb”. Buzz Bombs have propeller blades like a helicopter. It only went up about 8 feet then drifted over in front of their big front room window and exploded. You could see the big window glass move back and forth, but it didn’t shatter. Phew!
2) At that age, Axel had a huge alder tree forest behind the Hiway 99 house and Axel let me use his axe and I chopped down enough alder trees to build a real log house. It took me about a week to build the log house and I think I was probably about the age shown in this photograph.
3) In this same area behind the house, Grayson, a friend of the Jensen family, cleared all the alders with his huge Cat D-8 cable-blade dozer. Grayson then loaded way too much dynamite, (over a full box), in a big hole under a HUGE STUMP. Luckily, Axel had the Washington State Patrol stop traffic on Hiway 99, even though it was at least four blocks away. Well, the chunks of stump flew every where and some pieces landed on the Hiway, but didn’t hit their new house. Dad and I were hiding behind a tree only 2 blocks away from the dynamite. Dirt, rocks and tree branches from the tree we were hiding behind were falling all around both of us, but we didn’t get hit. Those three men, after being totally shocked, started laughing, and laughed and…………….laughed and ……….laughed!
Don
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