Some Family Pictures

Patricia "The Troll" Gass, taken in 1989 on the McManus cabin deck. Notice that Pat and Bun have her cooking steak on the BBQ. She was an amazing cook.

A young Mabel--Pat's mother.

Victor DeMers, Pat's step-father

Edith Hall Klaus-- "Gram"

Pat's Lifelong Friends

Vern on one of the many rafts he and Pat crafted together. Lake Darling, Idaho, 1949.

Fishing buddy Norm and a very large fish, 1968.

Pat and Bob on "The Big Trip". Selkirk Mountains, Idaho, 1951.

Jim and Ross and the 1939 Chevy that Pat and the gang went off to college in, Grouse Creek. Idaho, 1954.

Pat's Projects

 

 

 

 

Pat battles deer for strawberry survival.

[Photo by Bun, 2009]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arbor gate with beautiful brick "walkway." Bun admits that she had envisioned a slightly longer walkway when Pat was finished, but it is pretty. [Photo by Bun, 2009.]

Garden gate with newly planted grapes. Pat builds really nice gates-- fences, well, not so much. [Photo by Bun, 2009.]

Birdhouse which is really a squirrel house.[Photo by Bun, 2009]

 

Terraced garden on mountain-goat-steep hillside. There is a fence at the bottom of the garden to prevent not-so-nimble gardeners from tumbling all the way down the hill. [Photo by Bun, 2009]

Jess

 

One of my favorites pictures. Notice the steely look in Pat's eyes, as the wiley outdoorsman suspects he is being stalked by aliens at a family gathering a couple years ago. Obviously Pat survived, but the alien was not so fortunate.

[Photograph by Kelly Walkup]