Earl's Memories Page



Here's a running list of memories to Earl

Earl's Audio Journals
recorded 2011
Chapter 1 Growing up in N. Seattle
Chapter 2 1928 to 1931
Chapter 3 Lincoln High School
Chapter 4 Buying some recreation property
 
A Video Interview of Earl by Dan Mihalko. Link
A professionally produced video interview "very good"
 
Earl's Video Documentaries
 recorded 8/12/2016
Chapter 1 Earl's vision and building the Norwegian Hytte  8/12/16
Chapter 2 Growing Dahlias  8/12/16
Chapter 3 The First Trail   8/12/16
Chapter 4 Finding the Property  8/12/16
Chapter 5 Making Wine  8/12/16
Chapter 6 Kubota Tour of the TreeFarm   8/12/2016

 

Earl's  picture gallery

 



1980's main gate at sunset
This land has been a happy place for the family
 



Earl and Laurine posing for a salmonbake
Earl was doing 6-8 of these a summer during the 1990s  and 2000s for his church group,
retired Postal Inspectors and various other groups.
 



With new Kubota gator
 



Building the Norwegian Hytte'



New Kubota Zero Turn Mower 2015
 



Another Salmon Bake

 



Bunk bed for the Hytte' -built in the woodshop
Copied from the one in Jon Kristian's Hytte in Norway
Granddaughter Shannon on the right

 



Another Salmon Bake
That's Tom May on the right



Working on the spring-fed water system project 1993

 



Earl's ingenious way to foil the beavers



Trying out the Valhalla Golf Course project
That's Bill Messecar on the left
 



Burying the spring-fed water system line 1993

 



Installing the stove in the Hytte project
That's granddaughter Jill on the right
 



First wall up! Hytte'
Earl, David and Jill

 

Another Salmonbake
L-R Carol Messecar, Earl, Gene Strickland, John Messecar



We rent a Bell 47 Copter for a 2 hr tour of Snohomish County (80th Birthday)
Here's Earl in front of it as we stop to for a break on a mountaintop


Another Salmon Bake
That's Bill Messecar getting some tips
 



Tree Farmer of the year award 2010



Insulating the heated slab for the MIL apt project
Shannon on Right
 



Earl checking the plumbing rough-in MIL Apt



Taking the used parlor stove back to the sauna project
 




Another Salmonbake for Jan's 60th
That's Curt Olsevich shaking hands, Earl's friend Marie
 




Another Party at the Pavillion
L-R Jan, Nicole Mansfield, Sarah Becker, Marie



Balloon ride birthday present 92nd birthday.. Hot Air Balloon from Harvey field in Snohomish
 



Making wine became a hobby after a huge success with his award-winning blackberry wines



Earl loved owning collecting and using heavy equipment
Here's he's working a project with his 2003 Komatsu Mini-excavator


We buy a used commercial grade Zero Turn mower
..and then have to figure out how to drive it!


99th Birthday at Palisades Restaurant
 



Copper River Salmon at Anthony's Homeport in Everett
That's Earl's friend Marie



Earl is unpacking his new grape de-stemmer/crusher

   
   
Earl's "Mr. Beaver Story" Illustrated by Ron Munro
Page 1
Page 2

David's Stories from the Memorial Service

Tree Farm Home

Earl's Obituary
 

9/27/17