Hog Heaven

My former classmate, Jim V., really wanted to ride a pony when he was a youngster on his father's farm. Unfortunately, there were no ponies on the farm. What's the next best thing? A Bore Hog! So he broke the hog and rode it. Here's a picture of him at age 12 riding the hog. He's riding high on the hog now, though, because he owns his own engineering company. Even as a child he was persistent enough to get what he wanted. Good for you, Jim!

He eventually did buy a horse in high school and that connection served him well on one of our dates.....but that story is best told at our reunion coming up in August....

Still No Rain

It still hasn't rained here in the Phoenix area. It's been 118 days. I guess I'm going to have to do my rain dance again because the last one didn't do the trick.

It was 80 degrees here today with plenty of sunshine......

Busy, Busy, Busy

I'm having SO much fun talking with my former classmates and getting ready for our class reunion in August. A lot of us already have our reservations at the same place. I have been very busy scanning in old grade school and high school pictures and memorabilia, and trying to make some kind of order out of it. I'm in daily contact with classmates Dan, Jim, and Bob. Sometimes, the emails come in all at once. They are all helping tremendously with pictures, advice, and humor! Why were we ever apart for so long? I guess it takes maturity and the freedom of retirement to stop and look around, and to have time for things other than yourself and your family. We have had a couple of sobering moments this year as a couple of our classmates died. We will miss them very much at our reunion. Want to see a cute picture? Oh how innocent they all look!!

Loving the Scrapbooks

My former classmate, Bob, sent me three huge scrapbooks of pictures and memorabilia and they finally arrived. What a trip!! I'm loving it! I'm very busy now scanning in pictures for the DVD I am making for our class reunion, so I will probably not do much posting for a while. I probably won't know anyone when I get to the Class reunion, because I am so used to looking at what they looked like YEARS ago. That's OK though, because we will all be wearing name tags!