Mary, Gary and Lynn and families -- this sad news has brought a lot of good memories for me.
Uncle Jim liked old things and doing certain things the old way and so do I.
On one visit, I spent a day helping Jim peel and set logs on the log house he was building. The first two runs of logs were already done as were the many vertical support posts. I asked who he hired to auger the post-holes and he said, "Oh I just did it by hand, with a bar and spoon". I was amazed! Jim saw no reason to hire something done if you could do it yourself.
Once, my daughter, my wife and I spent a night with Jim in his old, original cabin. Our daughter (about four at the time) was excited to have her own top bunk. She crawled in as we visited by lamplite. Jim told us about a time he had to sit up with his rifle because a bear was scratching at the door and looking in the window. Since he couldn't go to bed he decided to turn on his 12-volt television. The bear left; Jim said he must not have liked television. With the story finished, Jim blew out the lamp and our daughter was in our bunk in less than one minute. A great memory!
Please accept our deepest sympathy. The Covid restrictions must have made this a terrible time for all of you.
Jim Mead
