Dolores and I ventured out to the open pit mine where Lyal is an operator driving coal trains as they are loaded with coal. Campbell County, where we live, produces coal that provides electric power for much of the nation. Quite a thing for a kid just out of high school to be given responsibility […]
Permit me a moment of pride as I tell you about Lyal’s latest project. Last year he purchased a used 1997 Dodge Ram pickup, part of which was a graduation present from his mother. I previously wrote about his engine failure and the deer I hit towing his truck home. So for the last four […]
I decided to resurrect an old police/fire radio scanner that resurfaced while I was going through a box of stuff in my closet. It is a Realistic (Radio Shack) Pro-30 w/16 channel VHF & UHF scanning capability. It will not handle the 800Mhz stuff, but is plenty good for this remote corner of Wyoming.
After looking […]
Lyal recently changed jobs; he is now contributing to a different segment of Global Warming. Rather than continue to risk life and limb working as a methane well rig work-over hand*, he’s now training to drive coal trains for a local coal mine service company. He is currently running trains as they load coal at […]
Well it’s been an interesting couple of days here in Antelope Valley, just outside Gillette. Our next door neighbor kids have been very busy, but not in a good sort of way.
Our landlord, who lives in the apartment directly above us, is away on an extended vacation. His niece is taking care of […]
Lyal got his deer this year, as noted in a previous post. Little did I know I would get one too, sort of.
The other day Lyal took a friend out hunting near Sundance WY. (yes, that Sundance, the real place where the real kid got his name.) On their way back to Gillette, Lyal’s truck […]
In case you did not know, the Holders are traditionally hunters. My father, Lyal, hunted in the Paonia, CO area for years while he was growing up. I hunted when I was younger, mostly game birds, e.g. quail in the Cove Fort, UT area. Dolores’s dad and brothers did lots of game hunting in Alaska. […]
Lyal is in Utah working on an LDS church dairy farm. He drives a big rig, fetching loads of hay from the fields and driving them to a central processing machine where the loads are bagged into huge plastic tubes of hay. Here are some pics
Lyal behind the wheel of his rig
Lyal’s Rig
Off-loading at the […]
As I write this I can hear our vehicles driving off into the distance. We live right between two intersections, one of which is a major highway out of Gillette, so I can usually hear the engines as they pull up to the stop sign right outside, then it’s a right turn and about 100 […]
Well, our youngest graduated high school today. This part of our job as parents is done. It never got any easier; we are glad to have made it this far with as much success as we have seen.
We do not know which direction Lyal is headed, we just know he has lots of potential, if […]
