McEwen Farming and Family Stuff

Wednesday, 26th June Today started with a plan, but a number of adventures later we had an enjoyable day with an unexpected end. Well on the way down the highway, I said to Ian `I am going to make you mad, please stop I need more knitting wool so I can keep knitting!” The car…

There are some spots in this world that are simply iconic and this place is one of them . I was here in 77 on a farm Study tour and always said I would like to bring Alison here and finally it has happened and she is not disappointed . The vastness is still breathtaking…

It is a long time since we have had coal soot in our eyes . When I was a kid when the steam passenger trains ran through Donald and we were going to Melbourne we would put our heads out the window and next thing we would be rubbing our eyes . Well guess what…

Today, we travelled from Bueno Vista to Durango. – Colorado It has been a privilege to renew my (Alison) friendship with Miriam Barnett and meet her husband, Stan – Dr Stan Barnett. I was at school with Miriam, as we have mentioned – at Strathcona Girls Grammar. It is 56 years since we have seen…

Picture a quiet little town surrounded by snow capped mountains that you feel you could almost touch. With, at this time of year at the start of the snow melt, a raging white water stream called the Arkansas river that drains down south east through this state through Kansas and eventually into the Mississippi. Plenty…

Wednesday, 17th June What a beautiful day!!! Alisons contribution I had been looking forward so much to the trip in the cog train up to Pike’s Peak. Although, I anticipated this experience with excitement, I was not disappointed or let down. In fact I wished the day would not end! I prayed that the early…