in the kitchen: Picture Explosion

So, we've been gone for the past while and our trips have taken us to Old Town, Idaho......then to Soda Springs, Idaho......then to Denver......and then back home again. The first half of our trip was to celebrate the life of my grandma, Agnes Torgesen, and attend a funeral up where she grew up as a child. I don't feel that I can adequately capture her influence and example in a post like this.....but I will say that she made the best Swiss Steak, had a wonderful spirit, was a tremendous example to everyone that knew her, and was able to demonstrate what it means to have integrity and charity.

Here is a picture from a cooking lesson she gave me up at the homestead a few years ago. That Swiss Steak is the best and she makes it the best.

beautiful country up in Northern Idaho

We visited the dam that was built along the Falls- Albeni was my GGG Grandfather

"Albeni Falls was named for Albeni Poirier, a Canadian immigrant who moved to Rathdrum, Idaho, in 1883 and discovered the falls on the Pend Oreille River. Poirier remained in the area to become one of northern Idaho's leading citizens. Using Indian trails as his guide, Poirier widened roadways to accommodate wagons and then began his own ferry enterprise at the falls in 1891. Poirier branched out his business interests to include a saloon and a butcher shop near the falls that now bear his name, was active as a member of the school board, and participated in Democratic party politics. The falls were eventually drowned by Albeni Falls dam in 1955. "