Calvin: We went to Canada and I had never been there and
Dwaine drove all the way to Canada we pick up these machines. The tires when we left were really bad, bad. I
knew that we would not make it. We got just into Utah (on the way home) and
Dwaine said you need to drive. I had 5 flat tires and the last tire I said
Dwaine what are you doing with these tires I pocked my thumb right through the
tire. He never had one flat tire the
whole way.
Donita: (talking
about going to California in the Volkswagen beetle) I remember loving being on
top with it open with your head stick out standing on the backseat.
Darla: (talking about going to California in the Volkswagen
beetle) There were 6 of us; Dad, Mom Darwin, Darla, DeAnn, Donita, Dixie and pregnant
with Alberta. Mom swears she was pregnant
but Alberta remembers probably because she was squashed from inside out. I
remember being in grade school and dad (grandpa) coming to the school and
saying come in the car. They did not even tell us we were leaving. Volkswagen had
the trunk in the front. Mom had just laid
a sheet and thrown all of our clothing from our dressers in the trunk, and
there was that many of us in the Volkswagen.
We went all the way to California. We would stick our little head out
(the sunroof), there would be 6 of us waving at all the people. we had a lot of
waves back.
Darwin: (talking about Rice) we ate it and ate it.
Alberta: (Talking about the rice) there were weevils in it
and we still ate it.
DeAnn: Mom (grandma)
and Dad(grandpa) got on a good sale on rice, they bought a whole bunch so we
ate rice everyday for a very long time.
Syringa: (talking about cottage cheese and chips) that is
the only way I will eat cottage cheese.
Darla: Cottage cheese is potato chip dip.
*when asked who uses the cottage cheese for potato chip dip,
almost everyone raised their hand.
McCarty: When you get sick you drink warm Jell-O water.
*about half of the people raised their hand when asked who
drinks warm jell-o water when they get sick.
Donita: Even grew up on it. (warm jell-o water)
DeAnn: Speaking about being sick – (holding up a bottle of whiskey)
Mom (grandma) and
dad(grandpa) did not believe in taking us kids to the
doctors. They had their own cure alls. They could cure anything with (whiskey
and jell-o water)
Alberta: (talking about whiskey) all of us hated it but
Peat. She would go yummm
Darla: Grandpas favorite meal (raw onion milk and bread) you
could tell it by his breath for month and months.
**sometimes he would even put butter on it before he put the
milk on it. It would depended on how old
it was (the bread).
DeAnn: How did dad toast bread?
Answer: BLACK – dark dark
Darla: How did all of us girls have hairy chest, with burnt
toast.
DeAnn: What is Peaches
and Milk (sometime Vienna sausages) lunch, all time lunchables.
Calvin: just don’t eat too much that would make him
(grandpa) mad.
DeAnn: Grandpa (dad) had rights in a mind.
Dixie: the name was galena.
DeAnn: what are all the things dad (grandpa) did?
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He worked on the site
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He developed property
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Moved to Canada
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Worked in the nuclear industry
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Sheep
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Mind
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Cows
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Taught school
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Built apartments
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Sugar factory
Calvin: when Dwaine
when to southern California, I don’t know how educated you really realize your
dad (grandpa) was, and how respected he was in his field. He was one of 5 people
chosen to go to Japan in the nuclear field.
When he came back the government asked him (grandpa) to write the nuclear
field manual for the training, for all of the nuclear people in the United
Sates. He actually wrote that book, he was not able to put his name on it. Andy (works
in the nuclear field) has probably read some of his stuff, he wrote. He was a Health
Physics, and Health Physics is different today than it was back then he actually
had a doctor degree in it.
DeAnn and Dixie: Talking about an old medal pitcher, it was
the only one they ever had.
Darla: Me and Darwin can tell stories about that one (rattle
from a snake) they had an old farm in How. We would go change pipe (sprinklers,
we would always kills rattle snake always. They would be under something that
would be cold, so we would throw rocks on them.
We had to cross the canal to get from one field to another. I remember
dad feel in the canal once and it chafed him. I remember looking changing
sprinklers, thinking who is that in white changing pipe, dad was changing pipe
in his underwear.
**side note from syringe:
My mom is the one who we would call if we ever found a snake. If she is with my
dad and they find a snake my mom will kill the snake.
DeAnn: What did we have on her feet when we change the pipe
with all the snakes?
Flip flops and ten a shoes with holes in them.
Dixie: I ware the black and white confers, they were the 3
dollar shoes and we got one pare every summer.
They were boy shoes and we hated them
Dixie: if you remember
the candy situation, dad (grandpa) would come home from the desert and he would
have a candy bar. They were 7 ups they had 7 little squares they (the family)
would break them up we got to choose, either oldest to youngest or youngest to
oldest. You got one little square. Or he (grandpa) would have one bag of corn
nuts, and we would share them in piles someone was in charge. He always had sen
sens cause he had bad breath there little black things (she found some and we
each got to taste one)
**Syringa note: I
really don’t like sen sens to me they tasted like black licorice and soap but every
time I get a chance to eat one I do, just to remember.
*several people remember garlic he ate garlic on everything.
Jeff: One time we came to go to the black foot fair a lot of
the family went, on the way home a lot of people had been so there was a line
of cars. On this two lane highway there was a cop there was a string of car a
mile long because no one dared pass the cop because he was going exact the
speed limit. I remember looking in the revue mirror and seeing this car weaving
in and out of traffic inching his way up.
I thought this is going to be awesome this guy is going to be nailed, the
car passed me and I look over and it was Dwaine driving the car. We were waving
at him Dwaine stop there is a cop at the front, he did not pay any attention to
us. He went right pass the cop the cop did not do anything and he beat us all
home by 20 min.
DeAnn: Dad (grandpa) had a hot little red car, he was coming
home one night from some were. He was going really really fast and he said that
if a cop saw him; number one he could not of caught him and number 2 if he did
they would of thrown him in jail. Because his license was already expired at
that time but he did still have one.
Calvin: He (grandpa) went to see Donita one time, he
(grandpa) was coming back through New Mexico they caught him going 100+ on the
one boarder they gave him a warning. As he was going out the other boarder they
caught him again, and arrested him took him clear back. Mom (grandma) had to
follow him back. They (the New Mexico police) made him pay the fine before they
would let him leave. That was in the
little red car too.
DeAnn: the little red car got him in lot of trouble.
Scotty: when Darla and I got married a year later we went to
phoenix. Dwaine and Dorothy brought all the kids down; Evan was like 3 or 4
years old Clee was not much bigger. We all
decided that we were going to drive from phoenix to LA through this huge desert. I had a black car with no AC (it was a road runner
and his 2nd love- added Darla) we all jumped in the car. Dwaine had
been eating his garlic all day Clee had been sick, Evan got sick and puked all
over the car. It was like 900 degrees but we all had to take one car. What a good feeling we had ;)
Donita: I remember being hungry and complaining out working. Dad (grandpa) pulled over went out in the
field pulled out a potato dusted it off, and then gave it to me. I ate it, we
were hungry we ate the potato.
Evan: I can remember going on a trip to Canada. Calvin and I
were in the back of the pickup with a sleeping bag pulled over our heads. After a while Calvin reached up and it was
snowing on top of us. He pulled the bag back over our head and we drove the
whole way to Canada.
Calvin: (talking about the trip to Canada) he (grandpa)
would not stop for gas. He would have a 55 gallon barrel. We would have to reach out and fill it up as
we were traveling. He would yell back getting low.
Donita: Evan would pee all the way through town. When Evan
drank one soda pop the kid had to pee for the next hr. He (grandpa) would not
stop to let Evan pee so he would pee all the way through town out the window.
Scotty: Years ago when Darwin and Wendy were living in California
she came up and brought the kids up. They were just in a little car and they
stayed at our house for a few days. We had
some meat that we were going to send down with Wendy. Wendy had the car packed with kids and
clothing. So I found ever were I could to put this meat in. There was a little compartment
were you put your spare tire in so I thru 6 or 7 packages of meat in there. I
told Wendy make sure you don’t forget this meat. She went back to California. They unloaded
and give the car back to Dwaine and Dorothy. They drove around for about a week
and started to notes this horrible smell in the car. Dwaine got to investigating.
They lifted up the spare tire hold and there was all this stinking rotten
packages of meat. Dorothy would not let
him through it away they washed it then refroze it and most of us had probably
ate the meat.
DeAnn: talking about a trip to Canada, everyone was thirsty and
dad (grandpa) would not stop to get a drink so he stopped at this dug out, he
dipped in the glass and just chugged it. Then Evan looked at it and said do I
have to drink the fishier too.
Dixie: commenting on DeAnn’s stories about the water- that
was just Canada water.
Trujillo: One year my grandpa Jake, he was laid up with his
back. We told him that someone would
just come help him out. Grandpa Dwaine
swathed all his hay for him. My Grandpa Jake did not even know about it. When
he found out about it, it really meant a lot to him and the first time I ever
saw my grandparents in an LDS building was at grandpa’s funeral.
Jay: When Dwaine built the house in Arco. DeAnn and I were
building the house on the hill. Kmart was having a sale on sheet rock $0.75 a
sheet for sheet rock. We had to get our cow truck Dwaine and I went over there.
We went real early because we were the first in line. Dozens of car waiting in
line waiting for sheet rock and Dwaine bought it all. We came home with this truck and we started
to pack it in the house and Dwaine keep packing and packing. When we had about a 4 feet tall stack all the
sudden the floor cracked. That was enough sheet rock for both houses.
Calvin: One thing I regret if you ever went to Grandma Dorothy’s. We talked a lot about grandpa but Grandma
loved to feed people. No matter the time of day she loved to have people there
and feed people and she has passed that to her girls. I have never went to one
of your (meaning the girls) house and not been welcome and always had have
something to eat.
Donita: Joseph was with
her (Donita) when dad (grandpa) died.
When he (Joseph) was about 6 years old I asked him do you remember anything
about grandpa and grandma? He said ya I remember
when you killed grandpa.
Darla: She had seminary stories (Natalie would not say
anything) LaNaa wants us to remember this is the mother’s side. Mom (grandma) never told a lie I never remember
her telling a lie accepts one time. My boys especially my boys like to leave
seminary and go to moms (grandma) house. She always had something for food and
grandpa loved them to bring their friends with them, they would have ice-cream
and play a game of cards. It got were the seminary was going to dads (grandpas)
house. I would tell mom if those kids
show up you send them back to school they need to be in seminary. I called her
up one time at seminary time I said mom are those kids there. Mom (grandma)
responded with what kids. I said mom,( in the back ground I could hear them
just laughing with dad( grandpa)), mom
send them back.
One day the seminary teacher came and knocked on dads
(grandpa’s) door and asked if he could come to seminary.
Dixie: Dad (Grandpa) told him that if he could be a descent
teacher I would send them back. If you were worth wile I would send them back
but I think they are better here.
Dixie: Mom (grandma) would make her own cottage cheese and
she would rot milk till it bubbled then make us eat it. She could never tasted
anything sour but it was gross. Then she got into plain yogurt, Beans
beans and cracked wheat. She could make bread and she would always have her
dough pop, donuts. Dad (grandpa) took donuts to work one day the guy wants his recipe.
When the guy came back to work he said that it did not work and he wanted to
know why. Dad said it was because she had 8 little pairs of hands helping her.
Donita: Dad (grandpa) loved his mother raisin filled
cookies. Mom (grandma) could never make them like dads (grandpas) mom (great
grandma). No matter what recipe she used, he (grandpa ) would say no they were
just not like moms (great grandmas). One day mom (grandma) went over to her
mother in a law who was making raisin filled cookies, and mom (grandma) said oh
Dwaine just loves your raisin filled cookies can I take some home for him. She (great grandma) was happy to give mom
(grandma) some cookies. Mom (grandma) came home and put them on a cookie sheet
like they just came out of the oven. Dad
(grandpa) comes home and said nope they are just not like my moms.
DeAnn: she wanted to make sure that we remember (the kids)
did not have a boring childhood. There was never a dole moment. Dad (grandpa)
was always up for a new adventure
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