Category Archives: Vacation

Spring 2025

This was my first tax season in my new office–a historic home Jamie and I purchased downtown.  It has infinitely more character and charm than the boring office park we were in, plus I can take walks by the river … Continue reading

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Winter 2025

Below you will see some of our winter happenings: Josef was part of the ensemble for the Majestic Theater youth performance of A Christmas Story.  We had everyone over on Christmas Eve for a prime rib feast, before hopping on … Continue reading

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Fall 2024

This fall was filled with lots of  live music and travel!  Given the last year I guess I felt there is no time like the present to enjoy the things I love.  I got to see Air, Sturgill Simpson, Michael … Continue reading

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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

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Rome

It’s taken me forever to get around to regaling you with tales of my two week trip to Rome! The fact is, this was a very painful trip for me in a lot of ways. It was something that Rachael … Continue reading

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Mexico 2023

I knew Christmas would be especially painful if we stayed home, given the memories and associations of the previous year, and the rest of the family agreed.  We decided warm water and sunshine would brighten are spirits…and we were right! … Continue reading

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Holidays 2023

  Anticipating that the first holidays without Rachael were going to be kind of painful, I decided to skip out on the usual family-oriented gatherings and just get away for something really fun.  It turned out that the 49ers were … Continue reading

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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

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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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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

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