Mixson Road and the school bus...

Mixson Road comes off highway 320, runs by the James Darlington
Mixson homestead then by our house (the Gilbert Mixson homestead)
on by Aunt Alice's, then around Uncle Job's corner.  It splits at the
Pardee corner and eventually comes out on highway 329 (both ways).

When we (Wayne and I) were growing up, this was just a clay road,
crested it the middle. Now, if you've never experienced wet clay,
think of a potter and how wet and slimy the working clay is. Well,
when it rained, Mixson Road was one slippery mess.  (No wonder
I've never had a problem driving on icy roads!)

Anyhow, on many occasions the school bus would slide into the ditch
while attempting to navigate Mixson Road.  School buses don't extract
themselves from boggy ditches on slippery roads.  They stay stuck.
On those occasions, Wayne and I would hike back to the house,
fire up the old John Deere and go back and pull the school bus out
of the ditch.

I particularly remember one time some folks were cutting timber...
must have been on our property.  They were using a bull dozer to
move the logs around. That time we "borrowed" the bull dozer and
used it to extract the bus.  Thank Goodness no one ever found out!!

Can you imagine such a thing in this day and age?

(PS...Mixson Road is now officially NW 130th Avenue. In my book it'll
always be Mixson Road.)