Sunday, October 29, 2006

TC Prep Homecoming Pictures at Thornhills



















A fun time was had by all last night.

Perpetual Roach Reunion

Perpetual Roach Reunion
Hello All, I just received this note from my boy David who is in Granada, Spain for a year: " Hey dad I did figure that out thanks. I just got back from one of the most enjoyable trips of my life, we went to Gibraltar, Seville, and Cordoba, and it was just fantastic. In Gibraltar I had a monkey sit on my head!!" On another note, my son Bart returns tomorrow from 3 months in Guatemala. He will interview 10/31 @ the dental school in Phoenix, then be in Pasco on All Souls Day. Wear your seatbelts. Don't leap from hight places. With love, JMR

Friday, October 20, 2006

Hello to my Family

Hello Everyone! I hope that everyone is alive and well. Let me start by telling allof you that I miss you very much. I should let all of you know that I am in Gardiner, Montana the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park and I am and have been working for Warren Johnson (the man who Luke, David and John all worked for) I have been here since June 20th and I'll probably return home November 29th. I've been working as hard as I can and have not had a day off since I got here. My experiences have gone from getting bucked off of multiple horses to riding over the top of the absaroka divide at 10:00 PM in a blizzard with 15 mule loads behind me alone to driving home from the yellowstone park hellroaring trailhead at 1:00 at night also alone and almost hitting a black bear and a wandering lone bison within ten minutes from one another on my way home. Suffice it to say I'm getting an education in toughness, both mental and physical, and common sense. Right now it is snowing and 20 degrees which means that the elsk should be here for the beginning of General season (Sunday). I just thought I should update all of you and tell you I love you. Hopefully you're all visiting Grandma as often as possible...I can't wait to see all of you!
Peace be with you all!
With love and prayers,
Wim

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Email Notification of New Posts

Hey guys, I'm your friendly neighborhood Blog administrator, and I think that I've enabled a way to notify you, via email, when there is a new post to the Blog! Pretty cool, I hope.

My schedule for the next six weeks looks like this: Albany, OR > Roseburg, OR > Bend, OR > Pasco, WA > New York, NY > Salem, OR > Eugene, OR > Chicago, IL > Pasco, WA > Klamath Falls, OR > Medford, OR > Pasco, WA > SLEEP!!!!!!

Request for Information

Request for Information

Mike,

How about a report on how your hunting trip to BC went this year? You had a great group again and we really enjoyed seeing you, Xavier, Howard and Cal. We don't often get a return trip back through Bellingham and we are interested in all of your adventures. Got pictures??

Bill

Monday, October 16, 2006

Summary of my Year

Ok so I have been a bit slow about doing this. But I have been thinking about it since Uncle Tom posted that we, who have been away, should post what we did during that time period. So here is a very short summary of my year abroad in Florence.
The highlights include, but are not limited to: attending Oktoberfest in Munich (craziness!),visiting Dachu, sights from the Sound of Music in Salzburg, swam in the Mediterranean, slept on the beach on Elba (right below the house where Napoleon was exiled), explored each of the 5 cities of Cinque Terre in the pouring rain, swimming in one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, the Blue Grotto, exploring Pompeii, celebrating the cannonization of 5 new Saints with thousands of people from all over the world and attending Pope Benedicts mass and receiving his blessing, gazing at the Sistine Chapel, seeing the Pieta up close, pilgrimaging to the top of Apperation Hill in Medjugore, seeing the (still) war torn city of Mostar in Bosnia, walking along the Charles bridge in Prague, seeing the Cliffs of Moher and the city of Galway, the vangogh museum in Amsterdam, attending Christmas mass in the 2nd largest catherdral in the world, seeing an authentic flamenco show in Sevilla, walking through the Alhambra, spending New Years Eve in Fez, Morocco, walking the streets of the market in Marrakesh, visiting Mozarts house in Vienna, Seeing the Mafia in Sicily, attending the Olympics in Turin, visiting Juilets house, going to carnivale in Venice, attending St. Patricks day in Dublin, Guiness in Ireland, Seeing the Guell park in Barcelona, seeing the French Riveria, attending a huge Easter celebration in Florence, having the David be my next door neighbor, walking to school and seeing the Duomo everyday, the ponte Vecchio, the paintings in the Uffizi, a six day safari in Kenya, working in an orphanage in Tanzania and being able to do it all!
So that is what I was busy doing all last year. I hope this is what you meant Uncle Tom!
Hope all of you are doing well! Cant wait to see you at Thanksgiving!
Love you all,
Lib

Monday, October 09, 2006

Riverhaven Zone of Danger

It has officially become a zone of danger in these parts. Even Quarter Inch, Dickie Dont has been rallying over the course of the last week. Its a constant migration of Potters, Thornhills, Roaches, and Dickie Doo Dont's coming over on a regular basis. I have a bet going that Sinead will be living at our house through her junior high years... She is the best friend to Patricio! I couldnt have wished for a better arrangement over here. What a wonderful setup. And even with Dickie do-Barb-dont-Barb, its a blast! They are in the midst of designing a house, apparently, supposedly, on DickieDont's Claire Foley property, and are looking to sell Barb Cournyer's House immediately. Anybody want to move into the hood?

bpr