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Category Archives: Friends
Summer 2024
We started the summer with our family & friends camp out–Josef’s 13th year in a row! (OK, I guess the Covid year was a bust but we won’t count that!) After that he and I headed to the aptly-named Cannon … Continue reading
Summer 2023
Summer adventures included the annual family group camping trip, a vacation house on the Sandy River with good friends, learning to rock climb, Josef spending two weeks in Utah with Grammannette and cousins and also a week at Camp Westwind, … Continue reading
Spring 2023
The end of tax season didn’t bring any feeling of relief this year–actually somewhat the opposite effect. At least the heavy workload gave me something to focus on. After the deadline I was faced with the reality of trying to … Continue reading
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Winter 2023
Truly a singular winter for us this year. Indeed it’s hard to remember much of it. Josef was a remarkably happy boy. His family, his classmates, his teachers and the school really held him close. School families signed up for … Continue reading
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Fall 2022
Fall had some real challenges for us this year. Rachael was mostly bedridden with back pain and either trying to sleep or tying to manage the pain with stretching or PT exercises. Her health continued its long decline, which unfortunately … Continue reading
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Summer 2022
Summer kicked off with our annual family camping trip–Josef’s tenth in a row! He also went off to Camp Westwind for a 5 night sleepaway with 4 of his buddies. Then we shipped him off to Utah for 10 days … Continue reading
Winter 2022
As usual, I don’t have too much to report for the winter since I’m in a black hole for 2.5 months. But before I got sucked in I realized a long-held fantasy to become a sailor by buying an old … Continue reading
Trans-Catalina Trail 2021
This was a long weekend excursion I was fortunate to take with my old pal Doug, in November. We kind of threw it together last minute and it ended up working out really well. I was quite leery about a … Continue reading
Holidays 2021
With flights being so cheap from EUG to PDX, we decided to make the main Christmas gift this year a trip to Los Angeles. We left on the 26th and took Josef to Santa Monica so he could see his … Continue reading
Spring 2022
This spring started off with sad news that Rachael’s cancer had returned. We battened down the hatches for 3 months of chemo during tax season, and Gramannette came to our rescue once again to help out with the hearth and … Continue reading
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