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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Ready to Launch


About to hit the road again.  We’ve been in the same town for a month now; seems like soooooooo much longer, we’re feeling the need to move again. 

Had the grandkids out for an overnighter.  Went surprisingly well, complete with Molly’s first tooth for the tooth-fairy.  Spencer got a Black & Decker work station and now helps grandpa with all his projects.  He also has a bag for toting everything to the work site, so he is always ready to go.




After nesting heavily for the last three week, the trailer is just about ready for the road.  We took the opportunity of a closed COSTCO and Sportsman’s Warehouse to take the rig out for some backing practice and turn radius testing in the empty parking lot.  It was our first chance to see how long it takes us to pack up and hit the road and then set up again after returning to the RV park.  Lucky us, we also were able to experience setting up in the rain, as the skies opened up right after we got back.  The rain started right after we set up the awning, so there was refuge between forays into the wet.

Monday we head out for Rog & Claire's Estate on the golf course in Venice, FL.  We'll fly back to Portland and Teri will run down to LA, then it's warm up back in Venice before we go back to Tallahassee by Feb. 

Stay safe.