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The Day We Lost Our Independence--July 5, 2021

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 We traveled to California to attend Heidi Burnham Davies' wedding to Larry Case on July 3.  Heidi is Barbara's niece. We had dinner with an old friend of Don's from school, Charley Turk, and his wife Carol Sue. We spent the night at a bed and breakfast and then went to Church with Eris Burnham (Barbara's sister) and had lunch with Mike and Eris and Julianne Denney (Barbara';s niece) and family who had come down from Montana.   Then we traveled back to Las Vegas where we stayed at another bed and breakfast.  We got up early because the air conditioner on the car was going out and we wanted to get to cooler climes before the day got really warm.  Uncharacteristically, Don said he wanted to drive.  Usually on long trips like this, Barbara drives first in the morning because she is more alert early in the day than Don.  Barbara navigated on her phone to get us from the bed and breakfast to I-15.  We had  just entered the freeway.  We w...

June 2021

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 We began the summer of 2021 with high hopes of finishing the downstairs of our cabin.  We had scheduled carpet delivery and installation for July and were working to finish the bedroom in advance of that date. We decided to make the bedroom our 'Caribbean Room' using typical Caribbean colors.  The blue walls are actually much brighter than this image shows. This picture is more true to the actual color of the room. We had some grandchildren out to visit.  One tried out Barbara's Mother's Day gift of kites but did not succeed in getting it into the air. The wind was too strong. Two other granddaughters hosted a tea-party for some local children. Faces of local foster children are blocked out for privacy, even though they were later adopted by a local family. These two are watching the water drain into our under ground tank.