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Posted on April 13, 2020 Posted in General Information, Personal History, TRAVEL, Washington
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
Mount Rainier Under Clouds

I’ve been to or through Tacoma and Pierce County, many times, but on October 3rd, 2016, Mike and I drove through on a photo excursion. If you want to read my Pierce County post from the Evergreen book, just click …

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Posted on April 12, 2020 Posted in California, Life Lessons, Personal History, TRAVEL, Uncategorized
El Cerrito California
The El Cerrito Methodist Church

In June, 1962, Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett appointed Poppa to serve the El Cerrito California Community Methodist Church. We left Colusa and moved to the Bay Area. As I mentioned in last Sunday’s blog, the temperature inside our Colusa house …

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Posted on April 11, 2020 Posted in Life Lessons, Personal History, Uncategorized
Four More MinPins
The boys

Last Saturday, I wrote about the first four MinPins who lived with me in Missoula. Today, I want to talk about four more MinPins. Counting Dinah from my childhood and Jr., a MinPin cross, ten MinPins have made a major …

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Posted on April 10, 2020 Posted in Life Lessons, Personal History, Reading, Uncategorized
Poetry on an April morning
Lilacs out of the Dead Land

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Those are the opening four lines of Eliot’s poem The Waste Land which you can read in full on the Poetry …

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Posted on April 9, 2020 Posted in Personal History, TRAVEL, Uncategorized
A Trip to Canada
The Border Crossing at Kingsgate, British Columbia

The first time I traveled out of the U.S. was in 1953. My family drove back to West Virginia to visit my grandma. We didn’t take a direct route though. Instead we drove across southern Ontario, from Sault Ste. Marie …

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Posted on April 9, 2020 Posted in Automotive History, Car Shows, General Information
C’mon, Live a Little–Drive a Rambler
A 1937 Nash Ambassador Badge and Grill

The Thomas B. Jeffrey Company started building cars in 1902. They had two models: the Jeffrey and the Rambler. In 1917, Charles W. Nash, who had just stepped down as head of General Motors, bought the company and renamed it …

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Posted on April 8, 2020 Posted in Life Lessons, Personal History, Photography, Uncategorized
It’s Time For a Change in Plans
What a difference a day makes

Yesterday I wrote that today’s blog would be about the Keto Diet, but I have come to two major realizations. First, I am not a nutritionist, nor do I, personally, follow a keto diet. Therefore, I have no business writing …

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Posted on April 6, 2020 Posted in TRAVEL
A Drive Around Thurston County, Washington
Washington Capitol Dome through the trees

Back in 2016, a fellow Kaiser-Frazer owner told me where I could pick up a parts car for my 1948 Frazer. The car in question lived under a carport on the western side of Puget Sound. I got in touch …

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Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in California, General Information, Life Lessons, Personal History, TRAVEL
Colusa California 1960-62
Trinity United Methodist Church, Colusa, California

In 1960, when Poppa turned down Bishop Phillips’ offer to move to Ogden, Utah, he transferred his membership to the California-Nevada Conference of the Methodist Church. With his new appointment, in June, 1960, we moved to Colusa, California. Poppa’s new …

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Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized

Part One Last Saturday, I wrote about my life with dogs starting with my childhood friend Dinah. That post ended with the death of Jr. in 1995. If you missed that post, you can read it here. I mentioned at …

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