Zoiboyz Sadly Announce
Zoiboyz Comet raced away yesterday to play with Bopcha.
Zoiboyz Comet raced away yesterday to play with Bopcha.
R.I.P. Mr. Gander
Well, that brave Mr. Gander has been eaten down to his little bones. May he rest in peace.
Annual Conference at Pasco, Washington
Bill and I camped along the Snake River while I attended a 4 day Church Conference in Pasco. The weather was fabulous!
A familiar sight. Bill with reading material.
Ice Harbor Dam on the Snake River. We were camping along the lake created by the dam. There are locks that allow barges to travel up and down the Snake to Portland and beyond.
Our former Pastor, Leslie Ann Knight and I. She is now serving a congregation near Tacoma.
Our current Pastor - Pastor John Chae. He is the sweetest guy ever. He served as a ROK soldier before he immigrated to the U.S.
Pastor John's wife, Regina. She is a social worker to Korean immigrants. She has the voice of an angel. She sang How Great Thou Art as a duet with a guy from the choir who is a really good tenor. I sobbed throughout the whole song.
Cats Getting Along!
Ella and Shelia are making a good adjustment.
Katie, Noah, Jess, Gavin and Bill enjoy brunch at Sazaraks (spl.) as a Father's Day celebration.
New kitten!
Sandra, I am jealous of your horse-team-building lark! Too much fun for words!
Gavin, Jessica and the new kitten (who has no name yet).
Ella eyeballs the newcomer. She is handling the intrusion quite well, and the little girl is not the slightest bit afraid of Ella.
I am jealous of you Northwesterners
Hello all,
Well when I run 5 miles I jog through ghetto etc... well not really but you are lucky to have such beautiful trails to run through. Perhaps we have interesting landscape but it seems to take a lot more effort to find it. Anyway, good luck on your trail. It sounds like it will be interesting.
Diana, I think you are absolutely reasonable to look for the best running clothes you can find. Your running wardrobe is very important - everyone knows that. Plus, think about Noah - surely his mother has to be the perfect Nike model. I mean really you are doing it all for him right?
Anyway, yesterday I was running and not jogging. Since I was doing more speed than is comfortable I was feeling all the lactic acid building up and it made me feel yukkie. I hate that feeling. I was looking for any excuse to stop and start up again. You know all those good reasons that you come up with like fixing your shoelaces, drinking water, stopping to look at the horses that are on the trail and talking to the police officers that saddling up the horses. (By the way they are police horses that roam around Fairmount City Park). They are beautiful.
Tomorrow, of all things, I will be doing an "team building" seminar which the Dean invited me to. We will be doing this seminar on a Horse Farm. Yes you read that correctly, we will be using horses for the exercises rather than sitting in a dark conference room listening to others pontificate, isn't that great. I am really looking forward to this.
I will let you know how it goes.
Sandra
Well when I run 5 miles I jog through ghetto etc... well not really but you are lucky to have such beautiful trails to run through. Perhaps we have interesting landscape but it seems to take a lot more effort to find it. Anyway, good luck on your trail. It sounds like it will be interesting.
Diana, I think you are absolutely reasonable to look for the best running clothes you can find. Your running wardrobe is very important - everyone knows that. Plus, think about Noah - surely his mother has to be the perfect Nike model. I mean really you are doing it all for him right?
Anyway, yesterday I was running and not jogging. Since I was doing more speed than is comfortable I was feeling all the lactic acid building up and it made me feel yukkie. I hate that feeling. I was looking for any excuse to stop and start up again. You know all those good reasons that you come up with like fixing your shoelaces, drinking water, stopping to look at the horses that are on the trail and talking to the police officers that saddling up the horses. (By the way they are police horses that roam around Fairmount City Park). They are beautiful.
Tomorrow, of all things, I will be doing an "team building" seminar which the Dean invited me to. We will be doing this seminar on a Horse Farm. Yes you read that correctly, we will be using horses for the exercises rather than sitting in a dark conference room listening to others pontificate, isn't that great. I am really looking forward to this.
I will let you know how it goes.
Sandra
Saturday's trail run for Tory and I
The course starts and finishes at Taylor Mt. Trailhead (see directions tab). It begins with a wide fire road for a little over 1.5 miles, then connects to the beautiful singletrack trails the park has to offer. The 5 mile run is a figure 8 loop and finishes with some of the best views and great singetrack trails. Elevation gain is about 750 feet for the 5 mile course.
This should be fun. I will be really slow, I am afraid - even with my new Nike frees and my new running clothes (I was dissatisfied with how the old ones photographed)!
Farm in June
Remember columbines? I found this one out back, near Unk's porch.
Charlie watches while Judi and Max discuss the best way to tackle the tall grass.
Judi and Kay, hard at work.
Misty field
Ridgecrest
Everyone in Ridgecrest is doing great. Anna is a little doll.
The visit with Sid and Sandra was way short but had a nice relaxing time.
Tonight is Grant's graduation. The temp is supposed to be in low 90s. The graduation starts at 8 p.m. and will be held outdoors but to get a seat, we need to arrive at 6:30. We are taking lots of water.
Will head back home on Sunday.
The visit with Sid and Sandra was way short but had a nice relaxing time.
Tonight is Grant's graduation. The temp is supposed to be in low 90s. The graduation starts at 8 p.m. and will be held outdoors but to get a seat, we need to arrive at 6:30. We are taking lots of water.
Will head back home on Sunday.
Where else but a Vet School/Vet Hospital
Hello,
I thought you may all appreciate this. I have been serving on a committee regarding service excellence etc....very lofty sounding I know.
But of course I would never bore you with details on the work we are doing. But I did think you would all appreciate a suggestion that was made by one of our Vets/Clinicians. We were trying to identify standards/Philosophy etc... and he thought we should use the following for our employees:
"Be the person your dog thinks you are."
Isn't that funny. It is debatable whether that works for cats. Believe the committee debated it. We all know how our cats feel about us......let's just say it is a little different than how our dogs see us.
Anyway, I am grateful to be working in a place that can even have these kinds of conversations.
Bye for now,
Sandra
I thought you may all appreciate this. I have been serving on a committee regarding service excellence etc....very lofty sounding I know.
But of course I would never bore you with details on the work we are doing. But I did think you would all appreciate a suggestion that was made by one of our Vets/Clinicians. We were trying to identify standards/Philosophy etc... and he thought we should use the following for our employees:
"Be the person your dog thinks you are."
Isn't that funny. It is debatable whether that works for cats. Believe the committee debated it. We all know how our cats feel about us......let's just say it is a little different than how our dogs see us.
Anyway, I am grateful to be working in a place that can even have these kinds of conversations.
Bye for now,
Sandra
Not Slowing Down
Hello Everyone,
As in the recent past, I have wanted to write in but it always seems that there are too many things going and something always seems to stand in the way of relaxing and writing quick notes on the blog. But today I was determined to say hello and write.
I really liked the photos of Murray’s graduation. That looked like such fun. What a great adventure. How is he enjoying the new restaurant? Seems like it would be ideal to start your career at a new place where the road is not already set in stone, and you can be part of the image that is created.
It was great to see Kay and Judy out here and it was funny to be at the same celebration on the East Coast. It was a very short visit. Poor Judy was in our house for a short time but had some type of reaction to something. Judy, do you think it was our cats, I hope not. We felt awful that our house was the culprit. I mean who wants to see their guests affected like that by your very own environment.
It was a beautiful wedding and quite elaborate.
This weekend Nina and Alex visited and spent Saturday into Sunday at our house. As you may remember we have the pool which we rarely use -isn't that amazing? If we
did not have a pool we would like pay membership to one right? Anyway, maybe not because I actually hate to swim.
And I think that may be evidenced by the fact that the Parsons (especially George) don’t want Nina and Alex going to the pool without Sid. I am not sufficient enough protection for them. Hmm should I be insulted??? Well I can’t blame them for wanting to make sure their children are safe, and safety is not the image that is conjured up when it comes to me and swimming. ïŒ
So I had strict orders to make sure Sid was around if we were going to go swimming. In the end, that works out just fine because they have more fun playing with Sid anyway.
Both of them are a riot and they of course say very funny things. Nina did really well with her track team this year and this summer she will actually be doing a soccer camp at Penn and staying with us for one week in order to do so. Should be a busy week.
Alex – when he is not meticulously building something with his lego sets, he is following Nina around – taking orders from her and saying really funny things. He is a tiny boy and these funny comments come out of his mouth that remind you of something an old fastidious man might say. It really is very funny. Anytime you ask him what he would like to eat for lunch, dinner, etc… he responds with “well what do we have available?†You list things and then he contemplates each one very carefully. I told his mother she should just start printing out menus for him. He is actually really well behaved but he is just so fastidious about the strangest things. One day, he asked his mother why she put so much cheese on his pasta. He hesitantly started eating it and said, “okay well I will eat it this time but next time please don’t put so much cheese on it.†Well take that for an order from a little eight year old munchkin. But again, I know it doesn’t sound like it but he is really well-mannered, and basically a good little boy. He just needs to correct adults sometimes on various things. Yesterday I gave him a spoon instead of a fork for his noodles and he told me that he thinks a fork should be used. OMG! I won’t bore you with anymore Alex comments but there are numerous and they are rather entertaining.
Sid had to work most of the weekend to finish up on a heavy case load but still got to be life guard for Nina and Alex when he came home
As strange as you may all find it, Alex and Nina are still Begging to go to Oregon. We figured they would grow out of it. Not a chance. They might come out for a short visit if we come for a visit. It would probably be around August 19 for about a week. Neither of us can get much time from work anymore.
Anyway, I hope you are all well. Would love to hear more on how everyone is doing. Take good care and I hope it will be an enjoyable summer – where you can fit in lots of R&R.
With Love,
Sandra
As in the recent past, I have wanted to write in but it always seems that there are too many things going and something always seems to stand in the way of relaxing and writing quick notes on the blog. But today I was determined to say hello and write.
I really liked the photos of Murray’s graduation. That looked like such fun. What a great adventure. How is he enjoying the new restaurant? Seems like it would be ideal to start your career at a new place where the road is not already set in stone, and you can be part of the image that is created.
It was great to see Kay and Judy out here and it was funny to be at the same celebration on the East Coast. It was a very short visit. Poor Judy was in our house for a short time but had some type of reaction to something. Judy, do you think it was our cats, I hope not. We felt awful that our house was the culprit. I mean who wants to see their guests affected like that by your very own environment.
It was a beautiful wedding and quite elaborate.
This weekend Nina and Alex visited and spent Saturday into Sunday at our house. As you may remember we have the pool which we rarely use -isn't that amazing? If we
did not have a pool we would like pay membership to one right? Anyway, maybe not because I actually hate to swim.
And I think that may be evidenced by the fact that the Parsons (especially George) don’t want Nina and Alex going to the pool without Sid. I am not sufficient enough protection for them. Hmm should I be insulted??? Well I can’t blame them for wanting to make sure their children are safe, and safety is not the image that is conjured up when it comes to me and swimming. ïŒ
So I had strict orders to make sure Sid was around if we were going to go swimming. In the end, that works out just fine because they have more fun playing with Sid anyway.
Both of them are a riot and they of course say very funny things. Nina did really well with her track team this year and this summer she will actually be doing a soccer camp at Penn and staying with us for one week in order to do so. Should be a busy week.
Alex – when he is not meticulously building something with his lego sets, he is following Nina around – taking orders from her and saying really funny things. He is a tiny boy and these funny comments come out of his mouth that remind you of something an old fastidious man might say. It really is very funny. Anytime you ask him what he would like to eat for lunch, dinner, etc… he responds with “well what do we have available?†You list things and then he contemplates each one very carefully. I told his mother she should just start printing out menus for him. He is actually really well behaved but he is just so fastidious about the strangest things. One day, he asked his mother why she put so much cheese on his pasta. He hesitantly started eating it and said, “okay well I will eat it this time but next time please don’t put so much cheese on it.†Well take that for an order from a little eight year old munchkin. But again, I know it doesn’t sound like it but he is really well-mannered, and basically a good little boy. He just needs to correct adults sometimes on various things. Yesterday I gave him a spoon instead of a fork for his noodles and he told me that he thinks a fork should be used. OMG! I won’t bore you with anymore Alex comments but there are numerous and they are rather entertaining.
Sid had to work most of the weekend to finish up on a heavy case load but still got to be life guard for Nina and Alex when he came home
As strange as you may all find it, Alex and Nina are still Begging to go to Oregon. We figured they would grow out of it. Not a chance. They might come out for a short visit if we come for a visit. It would probably be around August 19 for about a week. Neither of us can get much time from work anymore.
Anyway, I hope you are all well. Would love to hear more on how everyone is doing. Take good care and I hope it will be an enjoyable summer – where you can fit in lots of R&R.
With Love,
Sandra
Coming to the farm
I will head to the farm this Sunday and head back to the Island on Thursday.
I hope to accomplish the following:
1) investigate mice invasion in the kitchen
2) meet with accountant (scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30) to get trust tax return completed and find out how fields at farm are being taxed and why etc.
3) get well pump fixed
4) meet with cemetery lady and figure out where the plots we own actually are and ensure that there is a record of what we own
5) general inspection of property
6) eat all the geese so they will stop yelling at me
Love,
Dee
I hope to accomplish the following:
1) investigate mice invasion in the kitchen
2) meet with accountant (scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30) to get trust tax return completed and find out how fields at farm are being taxed and why etc.
3) get well pump fixed
4) meet with cemetery lady and figure out where the plots we own actually are and ensure that there is a record of what we own
5) general inspection of property
6) eat all the geese so they will stop yelling at me
Love,
Dee