1. 90th Birthday
2001
•Great Grandchildren
•Feeding Llamas
•Remodeling Trailer
•Ranch Activities
•Cats
•Cat Trapping
•Gator Time
•River Time
•Baby Llamas
•Erosion Control
•Plumbing Changes
•Landscaping

2. 90th Birthday 2001 Great Grandchildren
Felix’s seven great grandchildren.
Back row: Garrett, Jason, Blair
Front row: Wesley, Felix, Alysa, Kailey, and Chase.
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3. 90th Birthday 2001 Kailey Feeding Llamas
Kailey liked to feed the llamas and
one of them liked eating her food.
Blair and
Kailey.
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4. 90th Birthday 2001 Installing Door
Stacy and Ray installed a sliding
glass door to replace the existing
front door in trailer. Melanie had
found the door in Billings.
Garrett and Wesley look
on.
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5. 90th Birthday 2001 Sammons Visit Ranch
Elizabeth’s folks visited the Ranch
when Steve & Elizabeth came to pick
up their boys that came with Ray &
Phyllis a month earlier.
Ray, Phyllis, Blair, Nancy (Elizabeth’s m other),
Felix, Elizabeth, Chase, Chuck (Elizabeth’s father),
Garrett, Steve.
Target practice.
Carving on the
stum p.
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6. 90th Birthday 2001 Sammons Visit Ranch
Garrett organized Wesley and Kailey
into an adventure outing; walking
sticks, and salutes included. (Garrett
is left handed). There was also some
fishing and some catching and some
sitting on the patio.
Wesley, Kailey, and Garrett.
Ray,
Blair. Chase,
Garrett,
Felix.
Blair, and Stacy.
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7. 90th Birthday 2001 Cats
Felix’s favorite pets are his cats. The
black & white one is the favorite and
his private cat! She follows him like a
dog, sits on his lap, lays around his
feet – but when anyone comes onto
the patio she vanishes!
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8. 90th Birthday 2001 Trapping Cats
Chase and Garrett wanted to catch
one of Grandpa’s wild cats. They
arranged a trap with a ramp for the
cats to walk up and a string on the
trap door to lock them in.
Now its j a m atter of
ust
tim e before he has a cat –
lots of tim e.
Look
close!
one is
going
up the
ram p.
Papa listens as Chase explains the concept. 8

9. 90th Birthday 2001 Sammons Visit Ranch
Melanie and Steve gave Chase some
fishing pointers. Blair and Garrett
rode the motorcycles up the river and
shot rabbits.
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10. 90th Birthday 2001 Sammons Visit Ranch
In August both Steve and Stacy and
families came to the Ranch. Steve
gave Felix a bird house, Stacy cut his
hair, Chase and Kailey caught lady
bugs and fish.
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11. 90th Birthday 2001 The Gator
The John Deere 6x4 Gator provides a
ride for all the visitors and is very
useful for irrigating and small jobs
around the Ranch.
Felix, Blair, Chase, Ray, Garrett.
Edna Mae and Felix. Linda Reed and Felix.
Phyllis pruning trees.
Ray fixing a flat.
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12. 90th Birthday 2001 River Then & Now
That little naked girl on the left grew
up to hold the fish over the river while
other little bodies play in the water.
Steve and Ray on the SeaDos
on the river in front of the
trailer house.
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13. 90th Birthday 2001 Baby Llamas
Trips on the left (black) and Chipper
on the right; that was the names
given the baby llamas born one week
apart in September.
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14. 90th Birthday 2001 Dam Construction
Several years of flash flooding had
created a serious erosion problem so
we decided to construct a dam to
stop it and solve the problem.
The erosion
problem
Felix surveyed the height of the
dam with a long level on the pickup
box.
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15. 90th Birthday 2001 Dam Washout
The first night after the dam was
completed the rain washed out a
small section. The only thing to do
was fill it in again.
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16. 90th Birthday 2001 Making Road
While the Cat was at the ranch and
after the dam was finished Ray put
some fill on the road (the one that the
trailers slid off) raising it up so the
spring run off water could not run
over the road and into the trailer
house yard.
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17. 90th Birthday 2001 Getting the log
The high spring run off left a big log on the far
bank and Phyllis spent the summer dreaming
about going after that log and using it for a
river bank border at the house.
Felix took pictures while Ray
crossed the river and Phyllis
rode on the back.
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18. 90th Birthday 2001 Moving Red Shed
After finishing the dam the Red Shed was
moved from the yard to a spot near the well
house.
Felix was the proj engineer.
ect
The cat turned in the allotted
space with an inch to spare.
The two poles purchased to skid
the shed left deep ruts in the yard.
Felix’s long braided nylon rope
was needed to keep the shed from
sliding off the skids.
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19. 90th Birthday 2001 Digging Front Yard
We removed a water faucet from the
front yard (where the trailer house
water ran from a hose) and dug a ditch
to connect it to the water from the back
yard – we also made a connection for
the travel trailer, which would be moved
in to replace the red shed which was
moved up by the well house.
The Bobcat, Felix, and Ray
pulled the water hose from
under the trailer – tim e for the
‘victory dance’.
Digging the backyard
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20. 90th Birthday 2001 The Big Rock
Getting the big rock.
Felix selected a
big rock from up
the river.
Digging the rock
Put that rock
right there!
Ray tum bled the
rock ½ a m ile.
The rock
is in
place!
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21. 90th Birthday 2001 Ranch Wild Life
The Ranch is always alive with
wild life going about their daily
chores of finding food and
shelter.
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