Stephen Gast:  

Life Married, 2 children, 4 grandchildren. 1 great granddaughter We are planning another trip and have lined up babysitters for the animals. 2021 Off on another adventure across the country. 2020 Staying at home this year since Covid. Lots of catch up work to do. Just spent a year in Galina, Alaska teaching shop (Wood and Auto) to high school students. Right on the Yukon River. Minus 70f without the wind chill factor. Glad to be home but I still miss the students and the shop. 2019 I've finished a year as a teacher on Diomede Island, Alaska. It is on the Siberian/USA border in the Bering Strait. Yes I did see Russia from my window daily. I had a K-3 combined classroom. Right now I'm in Warsaw, Poland. I've been touring the Baltic States. The goat dairy farm is working out. That's all for now, 6/8/2019 Our Pets All pets are retired except the chickens. We now have 70 and we are selling eggs. According to the breed of chicken we have; green, blue, white, brown and various shades of pastel colored eggs, who knew? The horse, has moved on, a Tennessee Walker, the two dogs are rescue dogs from a family that has lost their home, and the goat is rescued from a bar-b-que and is a Tennessee Fainting Goat and falls over a lot we now have 40 goats. The goat was taken by a mountain lion so we learned. Live here with the animals not in spite of them, So we rescued some goats (four) and bought some goats for the milk and milk products. We lock up the 40 goats at night in a barn.The dreaded free kitten has turned to nine rescued cats from the animal shelter or others that could not keep their cats. The dreaded free KOI fish has turned into hundred and forty fish and a Kio pond. We have now have approximately twenty Canadian Geese in the pasture every year during migration. They only visit for a few months. Every day we have deer visit in the back yard and now the front pasture. We planted an apple orchard and are keeping bees here. Planted table grapes for next year. Some plants went wild last year (2015) We don't hunt on our property. Believe it or not it seems everyone gets along, dogs, cats, chickens, goats, skunks, and deer. i don't see signs of the preditors much any more. Our exchange student has spent that spent a year with us and returned to Slovakia is now married with baby of her own. Her family visited us last year. We became grandparents again now that is two granddaughters on two grandsons. We are all blessed to be so fortunate. We also have a grand nephew in Vietnam as our nephew decided to stay there and raise a family. My nephew died Vietnam and we went to his funeral. The family has since moved out of Vietnam. Well now for a 2016 update, Went to Indochina this year for a couple of weeks, saw a Hindu healer, I'm he was great for the chronic pain I have had over the past 15 years. It is gone. No new exchange students, and our first exchange student from 22 years ago came to visit with her family. We now have exchanged the fawn rescue (with the Calif. Dept of Fish and Game, Tri-County Wildlife) to goat pasture. A full size Ti Pi in the front yard has been sold and we made an outdoor theater for evening movies. It stays up year around under the oak tree. I have been promoted to Sergeant First Class in the California State Military Reserves then transferred the Maritime Unit as a Chief Petty Officer There is always something going on there. We are expecting the baby goats to start showing up every May. They showed up Christmas week, again who knew? We are building extra outbuilding for them and another 30 by 30 barn in the pasture all finished. I have plans for an outhouse with a flush toilet has the underground plumbing in and waiting for the structure to be built, still waiting. The water wheel needs repairing as it is exposed to the weather. All horses have found other homes. I found they are very expensive lawn ornaments. We are into bee keeping as another avenue to keep us busy and the honey is great. Rode to Sturgis, SD this year. The motorcycle rally is everything you heard about. Hard to make things up or exaggerate goings on there. Update 2010 2010 or "Year Ten" as m...Expand for more