Hoofprints with Grandpa McCaleb

From time to time, the grandparents would come up to Tenmile to visit. This time, dated 9/84, Grandpa McCaleb was enjoying himself immensely doing what I think he loved most, tending to horses and being with the grandkids. He was an excellent rider and very much liked to ride Billy.

 

 Here he is in the "Governor's Troop" Pennsylvania National Guard at Gettysburg 1939

 Pop is on "Ace High", the horse he rode after the war in Germany during the constabulary and had shipped back to the states.

Horse and place unknown, but probably during the constabulary days.

I know he loved coming to visit us on the farm, watching the girls grow up surrounded by goats and chickens, ducks and dogs, horses and cats. We always had a garden, did loads of canning, hiked a lot, rode more and lived very close to the earth.