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

9/27/17