1973

The year was 1973, August 29th. Jonathan was born in Hermiston, Oregon. He was so cute! Like every other baby of mine, I fell instantly in love.
We had only been in Hermiston for a little over a month. This was the year that I went out and bought a whole bunch of ripe peaches and decided we were going to learn how to can them. It is also when we found out that Nanette was really allergic to peaches! Don't know if you guys remember much about living there because it was only about 8 months before I got transferred again.
Anyway, on another note, a very dear friend of ours passed away and we attended her funeral today. You may remember at my 60th birthday party she was the chinese woman who sang "happy birthday" to me in chinese. She was only 58 years old and was diagnosed with cancer about 10 months ago. She was a close friend of Wanda's.
Gonna end this now.
Love you all, Dad

I Hate Painting

Well, here we are for the 3rd time painting our family room, kitchen and dining room. The contractor has all of the unfinished hardwood flooring down and wants all the walls painted before he sands and finishes the flooring. The worst part is masking everything off. The end result will be great though. It's just agonizing getting it done.
He wants us out of the house for 3 days while he does the finishing so we are going to Las Vegas to meet Wanda's sisters the 24th of August. We both had frequent flier miles, so that part doesn't cost us anything, but we have a pretty strict gambling budget though.
I'll try to post some before and after photos for you all to look at.

Wow!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted anything. This home remodel project has become a living, breathing monster threatening to consume us. It seems that once we moved upstairs to just take a wall out, we get additional ideas. So, now we decided to take out all the flooring in the kitchen and family room and install hardwood flooring. When this is done, we will have hardwood in the entryway, dining room, kitchen and family room. We are going to be kicked out of the upstairs for 3 days during the sanding and finishing stages of this. Thank god the basement is done with a bathroom, TV outlets and laundry. Guess who will be firing up the barbeque for those 3 nights.
We are hoping we will have at least a month or more here at home after everything is done. Don't remember if I told all where we will be this winter. Morro Bay State Park on the California coast.
By the way, Michelle and Nanette are probably the only kids that would remember, but it was 37 years ago this month that we moved to Goldendale, Washington from California.
Well, it's time for me to wade through the construction zone to hit the sack. To any of my kids who might read this, I love you all very much.
Dad