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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!

Monday, June 30, 2014

Another Timbers Game

We lost. But a good time was had anyway.
These are our front row friends, Bob & Dianne.  They have a network of friends that sit in the same spot each game. They set up a canopy on the sidewalk and take shifts holding the space until wristbands are passed out.

Saving seats can be a lonley vigil. 
So they handed out likenesses of Harrington to make it look like there were more of us.

Back home now and went to the annual COW (Central Oregon Woodworkers)  potluck. One of our members is Lee Baker, maker of the famous (?) Baker Bass. It is a unique stand up bass. 
He is retiring and will make them no more. They are all works of art. He and a friend played for us before the eating began. 
I loved their rendition of "I Just Don't Look Good Naked..........Anymore."

After eats it was time to open the mystery box.
We pass it around each month. Inside is a wooden base that you may attach anything you want to make. There are rules of a sort. You may not show or tell anyone what is in the box and there is a small notebook inside where we can write down an explanation of what we did. It is opened at the annual pot luck for all to see and then goes on exhibit at a few places around here.  I took it for a turn this year, mainly because I was dying to see what was in it.

The first thing I discovered when I opened the box was there was no good way to get it out. It fit too tightly to get your fingers around it and the flowers were too fragile to lift the weight of the rest of it. So my contribution was the curved Juniper on each end to serve as handles. I coated them with epoxy like the umbrella handle I made at the same time.
This is last years project. 

Weather is perfect so I must get this posted and go outside.

Stay cool and watch out for those tornado thingys.

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