A new school year begins for Dondi, and with it new glasses—and a fresh sadness. Moving from Bud and Mickey’s sweet bungalow to this rinky-dink house on the outskirts of Casper has caused Dondi to switch schools. She is hopeful for friends, but none have presented. And home life feels a little sad—missing is the…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
This is Bert, and Walt’s got her up on a pregnant mare in a corral belonging to his buddy Ray. Bert does not like horses. In theory they are beautiful animals, but she doesn’t trust their girth and flight. In fact, an hour before this photo was taken, Walt and Bert and Dondi were riding…
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Here’s Walt, and he’s down at the job riding the rigging of a 100-ft boom crane. The cables he’s using for balance are reinforced steel, and run from a winch behind the operator’s cab straight up and over the crane’s boom and jib to this 300-pound hook, which keeps the cables taut even when there…