Sunday Night Dinner

We always try to host Barb's father for dinner every Sunday. This week I made my homemade enchaladas and Spanish rice. We invited Heidi and Rusty, Rob, Cody and the two babies (dogs.) This was almost too much for Grandpa and he left early.

Here are Rob, Cody and family - Missy, Buster, Maycee (due Oct. 15th).

Here are Heidi and Mr. So Big (Rusty.)In honor of my mother we had Pepperidge Farms cakes for dessert. Heidi especially appreciated that touch.

Retirement

Hey, this is fun. It did feel strange for a couple of days. Barbara would take off for work and I was left at home. With training for my mission, scanning pictures, digitizing genealogy, and going to the gym daily time flies. There is even a few minutes for a nap after lunch if you feel like it. I could get use to this life.

Friday I went to lunch with my old work buddies. I just hate these 40 minute lunches. Those are no fun at all. I am already to talking all the time I want.

Saturday I presented two programs for the area DAR downtown at the main library. They had at least 50 people there - I was quite impressed. I got offers for next year to present in Sonora, Bakersfield and Modesto. That is great as this is what I hoped to do after retirement.

This is a picture of all the paper I will throwing away today because it is all digitized. That represents about a gig of memory.

San Diego Vacation 1945

Well since nostalgia is setting in I went looking for really old pictures of Oceanside and thought these were of Oceanside until looking closely and I realized these were in San Diego - probably out at Coronado.
The first picture is of the following (l to r): Jim Givens, George Damron, Christie Damron, Evelyn Rogers. The Damrons were my dad's parents - George was his step-father, and Christa was his mother. Evelyn Rogers was George's child from his first marriage, so she was my dad's step-sister. The Damron kids were like my dad's siblings since he had none of his own.
This picture must have been taken by Dad and shows: Mom (Betty Givens), Christie, George, and Evelyn.This one must have been taken by Evelyn and shows: George, Christie, Mom and Dad.Dad had to go fishing everywhere. Here he is with what looks like a small hallibut.

Jim Givens - Jennie Elizabeth Hale Honeymoon

Jim and Betty were married on 25 July 1942 in Silver City, New Mexico. Here is the court house where they were married.
They honeymooned in the mountains of Arizona - as best as I can tell from the pictures they took. Here is a couple of pictures of the car Dad had taken at Greer, Arizona.They took these pictures at Oracle, Arizona while sitting on rocks.They also went to Luna Lake in Alpine, Arizona. The fishing must have been good.