Duchess & Sadie's Snowy Domain

Bayfield, CO - Happy New Year 2011!

We hear that Oklahoma has been getting some much needed rain this past week. Here in the San Juan mountains of Southwest Colorado we have finally had sunshine for the last 5 or 6 days with the daytime temperatures in the mid-40s and the nighttime temperatures dropping down to the teens. They say our next winter snow storm coming through here Wednesday morning and lasting until Friday, dumping snow at elevations of 5000 feet. Brrrrrrrr! Love It!

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George Rollins Inquiry

Wanda (Rollins) Hooper Curbow, who was searching for information on her grandfather, View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

This Day In History

America - (Dec. 27) -- It was 96 years ago, 27 December 1914, William Jacob and Constance Estella (Warwick) McGill greeted, brought their oldest son, Gene M. McGill into their lives, in Alva Woods county, Oklahoma. Gene McGill made his mark in the Democrat political arena in the 1950's through the 1960's when you could show your differences between political parties and still have respect for each other. It was nothing like it is today. Gene M. McGill died on Father's Day, June, 1986, at the age of 71. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!

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Helpful Hints For Winter

Helpful Hints For Winter Ellis sent us the following hints for Winter:

Keep your headlights clear with car wax! Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights - lasts 6 weeks.

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Home Comfort Range (1934) - Details

America - Details of Construction - The range body was constructed of high grade enameling steel, properly formed and sized in presses exerting approximately one million pounds pressure which insures a perfect fit to each part. Those individual parts were joined together by modern electrical welding machines -- bolts or rivets being used only where welding was impractical. Verluc vitrified enamel covered the range body steel both inside and out, providing protection against rust or corrosion.

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Oregon Fruit Products - Cherry Pie

Colorado - For the Christmas holidays I represented my Grandma Mary Barbara Paris' homemade pie crust recipe with a Cherry Pie using one of my favorite Cherry Pie recipes that comes off the label of the Oregon Fruit Products Company can of Red Tart Pie Cherries (in water). We also made our Grandma's apple pie recipe at the link above.

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Pine Valley Sawmill

Pine Valley, Oklahoma - Vol. 6, Iss. 37 2004/09/11 -- Andy Thompson left a comment concerning the Pine Valley Sawmill feature in our OkieLegacy, vol. 6, Iss. 37, dated 2004/09/11.

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NW Okie's R & R In San Juan Mtns

Bayfield, CO - We have put up some younger year photos of Dorthy & Connie McGill at the ranch, a few miles north of Waynoka, OK and at 703 7th Street, in Alva, Oklahoma. The photo on the left is a picture of the Ernest Claude & Mary Barbara (Hurt) Paris siblings. You can see a slideshow of the whole collection of Dorthy and Connie's earlier years in the slideshow below.

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Historical Crystal Park Colorado

Crystal Park, Colorado - Back in July 1909, my grandmother Constance Estella Warwick (before she married my grandpa Wm. J. McGill, march 24, 1910) traveled to Colorado Springs and toured Crystal Park and other sites around that area in Colorado.

Because of the scrapbook Grandma kept and that I scanned and put up on my Oakiepics Webshots, I have heard the following from the Historical committee for the Crystal Park, in Colorado.

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Capt. David Gwin - Revolutionary War

Virginia - An OkieLegacy Ezine reader left the following comment under the feature concerning View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe