We traveled to Lusk today for the District Hoop Shoot! We were hoping for a closer venue (Cheyenne or Laramie), but it ended up that the little town of Lusk was just where we needed to be today.
Yay Bridger! He won and will be off to State in February. I guess Mom and Dad will be rebounding and counting many more free throws..........
Lusk is Dan's hometown so we stopped at the cemetery where his brother and father are laid to rest.
Braxton saw where he got his middle name.......
"This reminds me of our place on Mammoth Court".
Lusk is Dan's hometown so we stopped at the cemetery where his brother and father are laid to rest.
Braxton saw where he got his middle name.......
The kids wondered about an uncle and grandfather they never met.....
We then traveled to Lance Creek (an even tinier community outside of Lusk). We saw where Dan's father worked in the oil fields. His "home office" looked a bit different than Farm Bureau!
Then we drove to the house in the country where Dan lived from age 7 until he graduated high school....
Dan's father and his brothers were the last to occupy the house. It is now abandoned but still had a few of their old treasures inside.
This is Dan's old dresser still adorned with the "Charlie's Angels" stickers he stuck to the side of it. I guess I'm competing with Jacquelyn Smith!
One of their old chairs still sits in the living room.
This was the porch made into a "bedroom" for Dan and his brother. Dan painted his side (Carolina) Blue and his brother painted his side brown.
The bathroom still has his Dad's old scrub brush hanging in it.
"This reminds me of our place on Mammoth Court".
We drove another 2 miles to Dan's old elementary school. A one-room country school house!
Bridger saw where his Dad practiced for his Hoop Shoots!
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