Thank you to all who wrote to Mark with prayers and good wishes for my recovery! I won’t write long, but I wanted to let you know that my recovery is already starting out much better this time than last. Continue reading
Hey ever buddy, Its me again!!!! Continue reading
My cousin, Dan Brim, owns Brim Tractor Company which has several stores throughout Oregon and Washington. I had told him that in October we’ll be working the beet harvest in Montana and Mark would like to have the job of driving a skid steer or bob cat. I asked if he had anything like that that Mark could practice on and he said he did. Today Mark spent about an hour practicing on a 2014 skid steer. Here are some pictures: Continue reading
I know that most of you won’t get this in time for Easter, so happy belated Easter. This evening we took Aunt Marg to see Heaven is for Real. It’s based on a book by a pastor named Todd Burpo. Reverend Burpo tells the story of his four year old son, Colton, who had a near fatal illness and came back saying he’d been to heaven. If you haven’t seen this movie or read the book, I highly recommend it. Continue reading
The whole month of April is the world famous Mt Vernon Tulip Festival. There are a number of tulip, daffodil and iris farms in the area. The two biggest tulip farms are Tulip Town and Roozengaarde. Roozengaarde offers a military discount, so Mark and I went there yesterday. It has taken some time to transfer the pictures we took and edit them, but I am finally ready to publish some of the best of them here… Continue reading
Yesterday we set up an extra litter box and an extra food dish for the cats, told them not to throw any wild parties while we were gone, and left them alone for the weekend. We headed south at the invitation of my sister, Sherill. Continue reading
Yesterday I said that Mark and I will be down in the Portland area from the 12th through the 14th. Make that the 11th through the 14th. My dad is the only one so far who has asked to see us.
There hasn’t been much interesting stuff going on here — doctor appointments, preparing taxes, etc. But yesterday a couple interesting things happened… Continue reading
Mark was supposed to have a medical appointment at the VA in Seattle this morning at 9:00. That meant we had to get up at 5:30 this morning. Seattle is a two hour trip from Birch Bay, but we didn’t know what the traffic would be like as we got closer to Seattle so we left early. Continue reading