More on Bill and Karen

One of the great things about having friends that are a 'little' younger than you are: their memories are better! Got an e-mail from Karen at 6:19 AM (why was she up so early on a Saturday morning?) and she reminded me of a few things.

We were at both of David and Amy's weddings; the civil ceremony before he left for Iraq, and the second Catholic ceremony when he got back. We also went to Bill's retirement party in The Dalles, a retirement that really meant he was just changing jobs. Jim wired their house, forgot all about that one! I'll tell you a little about their house. Mt. Adams is right (almost) out of their kitchen and bedroom windows. Bill made the staircase to the upstairs from wood on their property, it's beautiful. If you look at the house, it seems like it could be a house in Alaska. Throughout their home building project, Bill learned how to be nice to inspectors. We got in touch again in 1986, (where does she get this memory?) when she was pregnant and living in NH. The first time we got together after Alaska was 1986.

I really hope all of you will have a chance to meet them, some of you have met Bill. He had retirement business at Ft. Lewis and when he came up for that, he attended the TRC with us. There is a lot more to the story. You have heard nothing about Banjo Bill yet, or the organizer Karen is. Another day.