Oh, the fun at the cabin we had together.  Poison Oak, riding horses and hiking where no trails existed and mom never asked. Then our kids soon joined in the fun and played together revisiting our favorite walks to Mechi's Pond and the Old Stage Coach Road.  The sounds of the Acorn woodpeckers and California quail sang their calls to us and I still love to stop and hear them thinking back of the huge oak trees filled with holes drilled out by the woodpeckers full of acorns.   The cabin was old and needed many repairs, the furniture did not match, and the kitchen was super small but we made it work.  I still dream of owning a cabin in the mountains. I do love my 30 foot travel trailer and we now camp in the high country in the Sierra Nevadas and of course the Central Coast every 6 weeks.  That is a gift and I am thankful for our memories Marilyn.   

 

 

We started our lives together sharing our mother's womb and with much anticipation we arrived February 13, 1951.  Mom and Dad brought us home to a house now bustling with four girls.  Marjorie, Susan, Marilyn and me.

We loved playing outside and of course there had to be pretend horses in our make-believe.  Dad finally brought home a retired Army and roping horse name Chester.  We rode him all over the country-side.  Mussel Slough, cotton and alfalfa fields, and walnut groves gave us room to gallop on top of ol Chester together.   We later raised a pony named Fritz, a beautiful mare, Rusty, and later her colt, Moon Spinner.   

Later, Marilyn raised and trained a variety of quarter horses.  She was the quintessential “horse whisperer”.  I would watch her work with her horses and knew she had a special love and bond with them all.  

But the best gifts that came into her life were the births of her two sons.  Jed Henry Irwin was born February 3, 1979 and Travis Roy Irwin came along February 13, 1981, her birthday. 

Marilyn, was a Christian.  She surrendered her life at a Christian Family Camp in Idlewild Pines the summer of 1970.  We loved sharing the Word, listening to sermons on the radio, and discussing the love and miraculous work that Jesus was doing in our lives.  

We loved raising our kids together and had great times at the family cabin near Oakhurst, CA.  

I miss you Marilyn,

Your twin for life, 

Janet Adams