Here are some of Granddad's old tools. Mom and Dad mounted these on a board from one of the Etsell sheds some years ago. These tools cou...

Sean and I each brought home one of these Beacon oil lanterns, originally used on the Etsell farm in Virden, Manitoba, and residing at Mom a...

We just heard from our cousin Dianne that her mother, my Aunt Marjorie Jones, passed away today. She was the last Etsell sister, at far left...

Mom, Aunt Jean, and sitting down, Aunt Margaret, the eldest of the four Etsell sisters. All three of these remarkable women have passed on n...

Here's another new-to-me image from Aunt Jean and Uncle John's collection. I'm back at the Etsell farm with Mom and Smokey the ...

Mom, me, her parents, my grandparents; the summer of 1975. I need to go back there again, just to smell the grass and the trees. I hope ther...

Here I am with my maternal grandparents during the summer of 1973. Their farm really was a beautiful place . . . in the summer. 

When I was very young, I pulled Smokey's tail. Smokey was my maternal grandparents' cat, and did not suffer fools. Smokey retaliated...

Mom looks on as I pretend to answer a phone call at her parents' place. We had that crokinole board for years, and I still have one red ...

This wagon wheel came from the Etsell farm. It's over half a century old, maybe even three-quarters of a century old. Mom and Dad have h...

While reviewing some of the photos stored on Mom's iPad, I found this image of a scale model of the Breadalbane Church . . . clearly sh...

 Here's a black and white photo of Mom (right) with her older sister, my Aunt Jean. It was taken sometime in the 1950s at the farm near ...

There's something very relaxing about this image of the Etsell farm shot in 1973. Those lawn chairs look like they're just waitin...

Here's a damaged photo of my Aunt Jean and the Etsell horse, Thopsy. The damage on this photo might be beyond my ability to repair. B...

Here's another photo of Granddad from 1918. I'm not sure what contraption he's operating, but  it's a farming tool of  so...

Here's a photo from 1918! It's granddad on a tractor. Note the pitchfork leaning against the wheel. 

Here's a badly damaged print of my maternal grandfather reading a book. Here's my attempt to repair the image - a little clums...

Here is a photo of one of the Etsell horses, shot sometime in the 1950s. The Etsell horses were all gone by the time I arrived on the s...

On August 11, Mom and Dad journeyed to Salt Lake (near Virden) for a community gathering and captured this sunset. It was 39 degrees C ...