Glenndeavour

Susan,Thank you for the lovely pictures of your family in the sea setting.You are right,Brigid, Dan and Summer are caring people even as are Susan, Valarie and Roberta and all those in their sphere of influence are .Your parents did a great job also as you have done in the rearing of your lovely [...]

From “The lay of the Last Minstrel,”Canto VI

“Breathes there the man with soul so deadWho never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned,As home his footsteps he hath turnedFrom wandering on a foreign strand?If such there breathe, go, mark him well;For him no minstrel raptures [...]

Yesterday, I had lunch with my son, Dan, at the Greekfeast at 20th st. and Camelback. We get together there once a week or so and it is a wonderful treat for me.After lunch I drove North on 16th avenue and at 12th ave a truck with a large plastic water container on it turned [...]

Thomas Hood wrote as follows:

“I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn:
He never came a wink too soon,
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Has borne my breath away.

I remember, I remember,
The fir trees dark and high;
I used [...]

Randy holding Ramona in December of 1969 with Greg andDan close at hand in Riverside, California ,and thereby hangs a tail.

In June of 2003, Randy’s daughter won a Nasa scholarship to hang out with the training astronauts off the keys of Florida. For a photo tour go to google and type in ryefamily.net/ and [...]

Leisure–

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And state as long as sheep or cows

No tine to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of [...]

Fifty years,minus one.

Yesterday was Daniel’s 49th birthday. His loving and friendly smile is enriched by by beautiful Brigid’s smile and that of their precious daughter, Summer.
Dan has brought joy and pride to all who have been fortunate enough to be in his sphere of influence. Generousity, kindness, caring, compassion are just a few [...]

Will wonders never cease.I was able to retrieve the correct picuture. But hereby hangs a tale.

Ramona was in Phoenix for a trauma workshop at Maricopa County Trauma center. I lined up to take her for German food at the Haus Murphy in Glendale because on Friday nights they have an accordian player to [...]

Randy scanned a new batch of pictures for me when I visited him in Colorado for his birthday on June 17. This morning at the computer club a friend, a nice gentleman named Byron ,
put these imges up for me. The story that I wished to tell included Cinnomin,the donkey that I gave Donna [...]