Winter 2019

Hi again, typing this from my new I-Pad Pro. It is December 28th, yesterday was birthday #65. I’m officially an old geezer. A lot of changes since my last post. I’m now retired. Management wanted me to manage the parks in addition to the golf course as a “recreation manager”. It would have meant a full-time position giving up my winters down in Borrego and it just wasn’t that important for me.
   We lost Cooper this past summer, it was hard to have him put down, many things were still working but he had stability issues and his quality of life just quickly deteriorated.

Of course we will miss him, Riley naturally was depressed and doing nothing without his buddy. Chris accidentally ran across a cute picture on a Facebook website and after following up, we purchased our next family member, Murphy.

 Chris had a particularly tough summer, she did an amazing job caring for her mom. We were hopeful that we could bring her to Hoodsport to live with us and although we tried, it became clear that she was more comfortable in Vancouver where her friends and medical care was.  We lost grandma this fall. We did get the opportunity to have most of our family up for a weekend with Luella, she enjoyed the chance to visit with everyone. I’m glad that happened. 

Grace started school this year, amazing! 

Travis left Wisconsin and now lives in Spokane, he’s enjoying being closer to family and see’s Jacob from time to time.  

Ben and Matt had great years and love living downtown Seattle. Ben had a very interesting work year from filming two commercials (New York & Los Angeles) to opening up new Reserves in New York & Chicago. We just spent Christmas with them and Matt’s family in Palm Springs.

Almost forgot, I won the club Championship at Lake Cushman, something I never thought would happen. What’s special about that is the championship is gross, no handicap involved. Pretty Cool.

I think that is it, Obviously got more pictures to download, maybe I’ll try to do this more than once a year.

Spring 2019

Hi from Borrego, we are entering our last few weeks down here, in fact Chris will be back this Saturday. A cooler/wetter winter down here, still miles better than home. It’s nice now with temps in the mid 80’s. Played a lot of golf, worked one day to get my golf free at The Springs. Played several times at the resort and was a fill-in Marshall at Rams Hill.

I ran the men’s club (coyotes) this season, it’s a great group and we had a great season.

Riley & Carter are both still with us, they have issues but they enjoy it down here.

One of the tough sacrifices we make coming down is not getting to see Grace. She’s amazing, so smart and just a joy.

 This is a picture from a park on my visit to Spokane on my way down to Borrego.

I did retire from Lake Cushman. Officially on the payroll through the end of the year but was done at the end of September. It’ll be interesting when I get back to Hoodsport to see if I miss work.

 Ben & Matt came down twice, we spent Christmas together at the ole DeAnza house.