Homestead Happenings

  July 29, 1926 We had the usual breakfast with everybody feeling fine. We were soon in desert country proper looking like old times so much...

From left: Shirley, Bernice, Earle, Jack, and Ina. Photo by Vance July 28, 1926 -- Ina continues: We had one hilarious time arranging our be...

Car on left is Lynn's; car on right, Earle's. In 2008, when I was fairly new to blogging, I posted a 20-part series regarding Ina’s ...

Taken at the farmhouse in 1925. See identification below. Imagine it’s late July in 1926 – one hundred years ago. My dad, Vance Dobson, an a...

Central Ridge   I said that the centennial appreciation of the Dobson’s 1926 trip to Yellowstone would be next, but first, we have to prepar...

  I had planned to develop a meadow of drought-tolerant plants in the orchard behind the farmhouse. I was working on it – identifying and ...

Since our son Milo’s murder at the Idaho State Correctional Center on Dec. 10, 2023, I have quietly taken on a quest to support public aware...