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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, July 27, 2013

Harvest Done, Home Soon

Woke to two Sandhill cranes this morning. They can be quite loud but they soon settled down and began to patrol the Worsfold estate for whatever bugs they eat. Got in last night from Soldotna where Tony and I had seen Roger off on his way back to Missouri. We each sent back one fish box and have one more for checked baggage. Our FedX boxes made it, always a gamble, we've had problems before. 

This is probably the smallest Red harvest for us in quite a while. Luckily, capt Bill came through on the halibut and we all have our quotas for the year.  

When I left Bill and Shellie's 12 days ago the Fireweed hadn't started yet and now they are about a week from peak color but the change was impressive. 

We had clear, hot days (that is Alaska hot, low 80s) and not even a heavy dew for Roger's whole stay. Then, on the last night, we had the the biggest line of thunder storms I've ever seen on the Kenai peninsula. There were numerous power outages from Clam Gulch up to Anchorage and lots of downpours. No problems for us though. 

Teri is heading to LA in a few days. While she is there I get home and make a quick trip to Portland and back. Then it settles down a bit and it is back to projects. 

Low clouds and mist this morning but forecasted to be perfect soon. 

Stay cool. 
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