2060 : Allen's 65th Birthday

Today, I want to write a bit about my 4th child, Alley Roy Eckman.  He is 65 today, and will retire after this school year!  He is an aid in the school in the seriously handicapped group of students.  He knows how to help them, and is often needed, when they need a man there.

 As Allen was growing up, he loved pets, and had several kinds of animals, some more than one at a time.  He especially liked snakes!  We have a special story about when he worked at a place in the hills where he brought home snakes now and then!  I think it was a water treatment plant.  But he loved to have them in his room, and he would make a cage which he vowed was "snake proof".  One day Delsy went into our bathroom to take a bath, and lo and behold!  There was a snake in the bathtub, curled around the built in rod designed to hold a wash rag!  She came out screaming "Allen!" He rushed out to see what was the matter, and she screamed "There's a snake in the bathtub!"  He immediately rushed in to find him!  The snake had disappeared, down the spot where a broken tile was behind the toilet, where he had come from!

Next to the top of the stairs heading down to the basement in our old house in Sandy, there was a door we could remove for a plumber who could get into that part of below the tub.  He got ahold of the snake's tail but it got away from him!  For anyone who had one of our large red books it is on page 407!  

Allen had guinie pigs, mice, snakes, a turtle, and other pets!  

More to come later.  I want to go and read the first time my youngest son Jeremy had written on his sort of blog.  I'll have to send a link to that later!  He loves writing!