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Mon - July 30, 2007SavitaIt's been a pretty tough week around here...
Erin's grandpa fell down and broke his neck, the good news is he's through
surgery and has a very good chance of a full recovery. Not many 92 year olds
can say that.
The other bad news is that Erin's dog Savita died Friday morning. It was unexpected, she was young. She passed in the night without a sound. Earlier in the night she had been restless and kept getting up and walking around the house. Both Erin and I got up to settle her back down and neither of us was happy about being disturbed. I regret that my last words to Savita before her passing were not kind ones. I believe that the past is all about lessons and
the future is all about possibilites. The lesson that I will carry with me from
Savita's passing is simply to be
kind.
I could qualify that statement in lots of ways, but I won't, I'm going to let it stand alone and try to keep it in mind no matter how frustrating a situation might be: Be Kind. Savita in January:   Nobody is going to miss her more than her brother Cody, who now has the whole yard to himself...  Posted at 09:29 AM Wed - July 11, 2007Summertime Fun!Erin and Jen and I got together with a bunch of
friends on the Fourth and had a great time. Rich and Patty have an amazingly
nice house on the Sound and Rich pulled all the kids (and me!) around behind his
boat on the tube. Good clean fun.. ;-)
OK, so this picture is from July 1st
and not 4th, but it's my blog and I like
it:
 Patty, a wonderful host!  Their awesome house, photographed from the boat:  The boat:  The fun:          The crash:      Recovered:  Drinking... OK so it was just water:  The Fireworks!      An awesome day, I love summer! ~Bill Posted at 11:49 AM Tue - June 19, 2007Baptism: Baby AddyBaby Addy was baptized on Sunday along with a few
of her friends. It was a very nice service. :-)
I'll add the slideshow link here later today....
;-)
Update: Here is the Slideshow           A couple of the other babies:    Posted at 09:13 AM Sat - March 10, 2007I'm Back!As you may have noticed I've been MIA for a while
on my blog. For the last month or so I've been spending several days a week in
Oregon helping my grandparents. Health issues have impacted their lives in a
big way. Last week they made the decision to move up here to Olympia, at least
temporarily, so that they can more easily get the support of family. I found
them a great apartment at the Colonial Inn just a few blocks from my house.
They will have 3 chef prepared meals a day, housecleaning and laundry service,
all included in the price of the rent. Pretty cool, now we can focus on the fun
stuff and hanging out without them having to worry about all those chores. And
I don't have a 3 hour drive to see
them!
And.... I can get back to work! :-) My grandpa taking a look at the front
yard and bulkhead at their house in Canon Beach. I'm sure it won't be the last
time he's there, but it's a big step to move out all the
same.
  The Colonial Inn, where they are now:    Posted at 11:24 AM Mon - February 19, 2007Fri - November 24, 2006Thanksgiving 2006We had a fun family gathering at Erin's
yesterday. She's an amazing cook so of course the food was great! All the
kids, both young and older, were imediately drawn to the pool table, so I spent
a large portion of the night supervising (and playing of
course!).
I made a slideshow of a few pictures, they are also in a gallery here: Thanksgiving at Erins Today I'm headed up to Seattle to see my cousins and hang out. Maybe I'll take a few more pictures... seems likely. Here is the slideshow, it's about a one megabyte
download so it might take a minute to show up, when it does just press the play
button on the bottom of the black window. If you have trouble you may need a
Quicktime
plugin.
Have a great weekend!! ~Bill. Posted at 09:35 AM Wed - August 9, 2006Piper Archer IIMy grandparents graced us with a visit this week.
They flew their private plane from Astoria OR to the Olympia Airport and stayed
here for a couple days. It was a very nice visit and I hope they come back
soon. :-)
There was also a cool dual prop driven plane that taxied out and took off while we were there that said 'Turner Classic Movies' on the side. It nearly blew my camera bag off of Erin's car when it turned the corner...       Posted at 05:35 PM Fri - March 24, 2006Jen's Tolo DressErin's 15 y/o daughter, Jen, models her dress for
me. She was tired and ready for bed, but was a good sport about it since we
won't see her again before the dance. With a little arm twisting we also got
her big sister Kim into the action....
    Posted at 08:21 AM Sun - March 19, 2006My Mom's BirthdayI won't tell you how old my mom turns on Monday
and unless you already know I doubt you can guess. Here are some pictures from
the fun birthday dinner we had at Salty's on Redondo Beach just outside of
Federal Way.
       Posted at 11:12 AM Wed - February 22, 2006Skiing and hanging out in WenatcheeI had a great time in Wenatchee last weekend,
went to Mission Ridge on Saturday and then up the Icicle Creek outside
Leavenworth on Sunday.
And here's a couple more IR pics from the Icicle trip: 
 Posted at 09:09 AM Mon - February 6, 2006SeahawksToo bad the Hawk's didn't pull it off this year.
It was still fun to watch. :-)
Pictures below:  
  
 Posted at 05:45 AM Sat - February 4, 2006PicturesJen and her friend Erin Painting her
room
I take pictures most every day. I plan to post a
few of them here whenever I have time, hopefully every
day.
Last night, Jen and her friend Erin painted over the soft yellow of her room with a bright blue. They didn't quite finish, giving up out of exhaustion about 11:30pm. I, of course, took pictures: 
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