19920101 - Happy New Year from Niagara Falls

19920101 - Spending New Years Day with my buddy Joe Dixon at Niagara Falls.


19911229 - Farm Chicks

19911229 - This is me, Jen McMillen (now Smith) and Joe Dixon at the farm. We often had visitors come and help us milk and do chores. And when they were pretty girls we always tried to take advantage of that...

19910807 - Working on the tractor

19910807 - Not sure you can read the scanned in photo. It says August 7th 1991, Mark and I replaced water pump and head gasket 2:30 -8:30. Tractor is still running so we must not have assed it up too bad ;-)

19910709 - Painting & Jonathon


19910709 - Working on the Farm was hard work. It was always nice to have friends around to help out. In the top pic there is Michelle ?, me, Max Watson, Amy ?, Mark Ransom and Jonathon Kohler. On this day we were painting the North side of Granda Mary Winger's garage. Looks we had lots of fun. The bottom picture is Jonathon governing the ground corn as we augered it into the feed bin that runs down to the milking parlor. He looks very excited to be helping out. Jonathon would come to the farm for a week or so just to help out. i can remember the torturous times we put him through. Oh the good old days!

19890605 - GRADUATION

19890605 - Graduation day from Madison High in Mansfield OH. In the far left looking left is David Boals, then Max Watson, Jarred Curtis, myself and Jim Long. A day we all celebrated and couldn't wait to have happen. No one told us life only gets more complicated after this. Those were the days...

198902?? - Matt As a cheerleader

198902?? - Exact date phot taken not yet known, but it would have been winter of my senior year 1989, probaly February sometime.

19870624 - Climbing the silo

19870624 - I can remember climbing the silo as a kid. We would go up and you could see all over the farm. At one point it was the tallest structure in our township or county, something like that. When you would get to the top your arms felt like they were going to fall off and cars looked like matchbox size from up there. We did many things on top of that silo throughout the years: naps, experimental kitty parachutes, Christmas lights, beer drinking (not the smartest idea...). I am not sure who is in the photo, but pretty sure I am one of them.

19810618 - Transplanting a tree

19810618 - I think my Dad never heard of child labor laws... Here I am at 10 years old transplanting a tree. I use to drive the tractors and do all sorts of dangerous stuff I wouldn't dream of letting Dylan attempt; but I survived, sort of, only emotional scares ;-)
Today there is a very tall row of trees where I am planting the one in the photo and you can not even see the filed behind it.

19781026 - 8

19781026 - My cousins Lisa, Lori and Mark got me some presents for my bday!

19761026 - 6

19761026 - 6th bday at the Indian camp on the west side of the big woods at the Farm.
Back row: Buster Norris, David Boals, Matt Winger
Front row: Jennifer Winger, Stephanie Kelley, Kirsten Ohler, Chris Norris



19750612 - Start of the Silo

19750612 - Again, her I am dressed spectacularly... I would have been 4. I am standing next to my cousin Michael Kelley with my Mom, Diane Winger in the background. We are standing next to the footers that were poured for the silo that now stands 80 feet tall at the Farm. I can remember doing lots of work with Michael, and playing all over the Farm.