A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/27/23
"Yay, Monday!" Said no one... Ever
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9 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Carol CARSON ('60)
Ed WOOD ('62)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64)
Nancy MALLORY ('64)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66)
Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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I MOVED! MY NEW HOME ADDRESS:
Maren Smyth
144 Briant Street
Gretna, LA 70056
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
SENT: 2/23/23
Re Surgery and other fun things to do on rainy days!
For 35 years I have fought a skin cancer on my left cheek just below the
sideburn. I have had indifferent doctors. (IE:) Dermatologist try freezing it
but with a lack luster attitude and calling it an inconsequential thing. and
each time it came back a bit more serious till yesterday, I finally got a
doctor's attention and he did a closer inspection and then a office biopsy. So
at last, Thursday March 2nd, (if Tuesday Weld married Hal March Jr. she would
be Tuesday March the 2nd). I will have the nuisance cut out!
from lovely Downtown Hanford, CA (where all the many many many fruit orchards
are in full blossom and the High school is having Astro Turf placed in the
football field, in hopes it will keep the Cheerleaders from grazing during
halftime.
Things got pretty tense around the house over the just past Holidays. I had
gone out for a haircut, but found the shop crowded with high school boys
getting trims for the upcoming "Winter Ball". I decided not to wait and
returned home, where I swore I saw the mailman dashing out the back door with
his pants in one hand and his mailbag in the other!
Well I rushed back to the bedroom and found my wife naked in bed!
You can only imagine my anger, I am yelling my head off at my wife and her
infidelity! And what I intended to do about it!
My wife got mad at me for yelling and blaming her: She said she was only doing
what I told her to do!
Well I most certainly did not tell you to sleep with the postman:
She retorted, you most certainly did. Last Sunday, you were drinking a beer and
watching the Rams game on TV. I was across the room going thru my Christmas
list! I asked you what should we do for the postman this year?
And you said "Ah screw him, give him a buck. Do you have a dollar?
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ Hanford, CA
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
SENT: 2/26/23
For 2/27: Better not let this one slip by. A "Happy Birthday!" to Marilynn
WORKING ('54). Just hope she doesn't use too much red paint in celebration.
And, a "Happy Anniversary!" to Carol TYNER ('52) and Dick ROBERTS ('49). Think
it says something about the staying power of a ukulele.
SENT: 2/21/23
For 2/22: A moment of your time to wish Darlene PICKLES ('54) a "Happy
Birthday!" And to hope you've all recovered from the President's Day
festivities.
By the way, let's all wish a "Happy Birthday!" to George (NAB) for whom the
state and Bomberville's main drag is named for.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Silverton, OR
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>>From: Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
SENT: 2/17/23
It's been eons since I posted so thought I'd enter an update on things in my
realm.
Big changes in my life in January! My brother Steve CARSON ('58) had been
living with me here in Lynnwood, WA (suburb of Seattle) for the last ten years.
(picture of Steve and me on an Alaska cruise last September)
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/230227-Carol-Steve-cruise.jpg
Steve made the move from Chicago after his wife passed. Since my last husband
passed in 1999, and my Mom who lived with me passed in 2005, it seemed like it
was a good idea so we would both have company and it was! His kids decided they
wanted him closer to them so they moved him back mid-January to be near the
kids, grand kids and great-grand kids.
Now I'm rattling around in my 4 bedroom, three bathroom house with no one to
talk to except my dog.
Recently found this old picture of me at about 16 years old with Shorty Moeller
who was the adult leader of our local Civil Air Patrol squadron which Steve and
I both belonged to.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Car/230227-Shorty-Carol.jpg
Hope everyone is getting ready for spring? I sure am!
-Carol CARSON Renaud ('60)
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
SENT: 2/23/23
Re: Aileen Douglas (RIP)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
David, I'm sorry to learn of the loss of your wife of 56 years. I remember
enjoying her company when the two of you visited us in Colorado nearly 4 years
ago. I told Janice afterward that you did well for yourself marrying such a
fine person.
Janice and I downsized our home since your visit. It was time. We're now in a
patio home in Littleton where some of the outside maintenance is taken care of
by the HOA. After being involved with HOAs for most of our lives and being the
president of three of them, I've decided to let others do the volunteering for
a change, and simply reap the benefits.
All the best to you, my friend
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Littleton, CO
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
SENT: 2/27/23
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
So sorry to hear that you lost Yoshioka. I remember well your post about how
you two decided to get married. (It was a response to my post about when you
"have a feeling that," for no reason at all, it always turns out to be true.)
Sorry that it came unexpected like that. With me it was expected for a long
time, so when Vonda passed 20 months ago I think it did not effect me like I
expected it would. Also, I am not living in an empty house because our daughter
lives with me and for five months I had a part time job to help keep me busy.
More on that below.
Re: Office chair
Just about had me a Maren Moment with my chair. I sat down at my computer and
just about went over backwards. Took it apart and that metal plate that
connects to the seat was cracked and bent. I had gotten it a Kennewick Library
equipment sale for very little $$ and was in good shape. There was a staple
sticking out at the top of it which I pulled out with a pair of pliers. Thought
that may have been why they sold it. I saved the metal assembly I took out,
will sell that part for a few cents at the recycle place and the rest went into
the garbage can. Now I am using a chrome chair from a 1950's dinning room set
my parents bought. It works but it sure is not as comfortable. You know, a big
style thing now days is Mid-Century Modern. I have a whole house full of Mid-
Century Modern, and I did not cost me much, it is just stuff I had, or my wife
had, or my parents had. Lot of that stuff outlasted the new stuff that replaced
it, then the old stuff was brought out and used again.
Re: Computers
I never understood why so many people hated Microsoft. My first computer had
Windows 95 which I liked a lot better than Windows 3.1 or 3.11, Windows 98,
about the same, then Windows XP; some things I liked better and some things I
didn't. Then, ten years ago my computer went out and I couldn't fix it myself,
was not worth paying someone to fix it. I bought a laptop I really liked but it
had Windows 7 on it. I didn't like Windows 7 and in all that time I never got
used to it. Then it had problems and had to get another hard drive. They put
Windows 10 on and I hate Windows 10, I mean I REALLY HATE Windows 10. I am
thinking of having Linux installed on one of my computers and see how I like
that.
To me computers are getting to be a lot like cars, the newer they get, the less
I like them.
I worked for five months as a volunteer at the Kennewick Veteran's Warehouse
Thrift Store. I worked in the electronics dept, which I wasn't too comfortable
with, because a lot of it I am not familiar with. We would test the equipment,
price it and put it out for sale. These young kids understand things like
Bluetooth and stuff like that; all I know about that is Harald Bluetooth was a
Viking who lived 1000 years ago and all he knew about electronics is if he saw
sparks in the sky Thor was playing around with his Hammer. It did surprise me
though that when older stuff came they knew nothing about it. One example is a
young lady was trying to put a record on a record player and could not get the
record down the long spindle. I had to explain to her that some of them held
the record up high and the arm would come back and the record held up would
drop down to be played. Then a young guy asked, "What's these numbers for?" (33
and 45) I said that's the speed of the record, and some of the older ones also
have 78.
My supervisor, not quite as old an I am, but he has worked with technology and
knows the old stuff and new stuff. This IBM portable computer from about 1992
came in. He tested it and put it in the display cabinet for $200. It did not
sell that day, or the next day by the time I left at 2:00 p.m., but by the time
I came back in at 10:00 am, someone had bought it.
Here is a photo of me in the store wearing my Forrest Gump shirt with the
computer. It had a handle on the top for carrying it, the keyboard folds down
and the floppy drive for the 3 ¼" disk tips out. It has an orange screen and
DOS.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/230227-Gump_Shirt.jpg
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
SENT: 2/17/23
To: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)??oh my gosh! Sorry to hear you had fallen and
laid on your floor, unconscious. So glad you had family that called to check on
you and came to your rescue when you didn't answer your phone---outcome could
have been so much worse. "Bombers are tough".
To: Rex HUNT ('53wb)??geez, would you quit falling and playing Russian Roulette
with your health. 🙂 seems you fell the last time you had posted in the
Sandstorm. Take it easy, my friend, I want to keep reading of your adventures
in that "lovely" hamlet of Hanford, CA. *grin*
Am thinking health problems are a sign of "old age" and none of us are immune
to it. I have been having some more heart issues---now, they have diagnosed
that I have A-fib, so the heart doctor prescribed Eliquis----not a fan of that
medication one blasted bit!!!!!! Besides being VERY expensive (my first 90-day
prescription was almost $500!!!!!!!!!!!), the Eliquis has also caused some eye
problems ---I was worried that I was having another mini stroke (had a mini
stroke in my right eye in 2019), since I was having "prisms" in my left eye!
Went to the eye doctor, he did a very thorough eye exam and the prognosis is
"ocular migraines", which is basically a headache in my eye, which can be
caused by stress, overly tired (thank you, insomnia) and some medications
(Eliquis being one, it's rare, but it does happen). I don't mind admitting that
I was more than a little scared at the prospect of it being more mini strokes;
so glad to know it's "just a headache". *grin* Am very happy that I will no
longer have to pay for that super-expensive medication (since I am the "ripe,
old age of 77" and that has moved me into a different "tier" for prescriptions,
refilling the Eliquis would have cost me OVER $1800 for the 90 days!!!!!!!!
What the hell?????) all I can say is we need to take care of what health we
have and be thankful for every day that we are still here.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64)
SENT: 2/23/23
Maren, hope all is well with you. I'm always glad to see Sandstorm in my inbox.
Question: should we send $$$ as we usually do each year?
For any who don't know or wonder -- my brother David ('64) is doing better. If
you didn't know he was hit by a truck last fall while walking to do errands.
Broke a hip. Had surgery. Karen ('71), our sister who lives in Kennewick, has
been trying to help him deal with all the arrangements, etc. Right now they are
trying to decide where he will live. Karen has had trouble finding help. I
think she may have finally connected with someone who can help. She still will
need help cleaning out his old apartment and moving his stuff.
-Nancy MALLORY Johnson ('64) ~ Here in W TN we continue to have our temps jump
20°- 30 ° every few days. Lots of rain and storms (read wind, hail,
tornados, etc.).
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
SENT: 2/25/23
Happy Birthday to my sister Lola HEIDLEBAUGH (60) on the 28th of Feb. Hope your
B-day is a great one! A milestone. Love to you.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
SENT: 2/18/23
Re: Life's Curve balls
For the last roughly 10 years, we've had our granddaughter Jasmine living with
us. The first 5, living with us during the week and the last 5 with us full-
time.
Her parents were divorced 10+ years ago and our son walked away from his
daughter and didn't look back. There is a restraining order in place and there
are three counseling requirements that he has to do before he could have
supervised visitation. (All well-deserved.) She hasn't heard from him for at
least 10 years. He has not completed the requirements.
In November (and probably somewhat earlier), her mother (Anna Marie Cadd, Nee
Wilfert) started feeling extreme abdominal pain. We got the diagnosis of liver
cancer on December 6th and she died on December 20th.
Anna wanted us to become Jasmine's guardians. We had the paperwork drawn up,
but Anna's father wouldn't let her sign ("too stressful"). So we have had to
proceed without her signature. Our son could have signed it into effect, but he
refused.
The day before the court was scheduled to grant us guardianship, our son filed
a written objection, bringing the whole thing to a halt while we worked through
it.
Poking through the haze of his filing, two things became apparent. One was that
he actually perjured himself in his claims?claiming that he had lived at a
particular address for the last 5 years when he had been couch surfing, living
in his car, or living with our daughter and her husband. I think it was his
effort to look stable.
I don't know what the court thinks about that yet. But we have a good lawyer
(Rachel Woodard).
The other was that his objection was the result of his realization that the
only way he was going to get out of paying child support before she reaches her
majority was to have her living with him.
In the meantime, Anna's father (Pete) told Jasmine and us that, if we wanted a
memorial service, we'd have to do it. He wasn't going to have one. So we did.
Pete didn't come.
Further that, if Jasmine wanted some sort of plaque or name on a memorial wall,
she (we) would have to do it. He didn't want to spend that kind of money. He
was/is going to scatter her ashes in "special places."
Per Jasmine's desire to have a physical place, we purchased a plot with a
regular marker. Einan's placed the gravestone yesterday (Feb 17).
Pete has managed to cut Jasmine out of any of her mother's inheritance.
Our son's interference is vastly increasing the costs by his repeated delays
(even re-filing the identical objection with a new cover letter). We do have
Emergency Guardianship. And the laws were changed a year or so ago so that the
child (13 years or older) has a voice in who she wants to have as a guardian.
Jasmine has made it very clear that she doesn't want to go live with a man who
has neglected her for a decade or more.
When I met with him to discuss why he didn't want to sign the guardianship
papers, we talked for around 40 minutes. Never once did he ask about
Jasmine?even though he knew her mother was dying. All his questions were about
money and if he would still have to pay child support.
And then he complains in his objection about not being kept informed about how
Jasmine was doing in life. During the 10+ years since he's seen her, he's never
asked about her welfare.
I don't know if you can believe it, but this is a very short summary of all the
stressors the three of us have had to face since November. We're doing OK, I
guess, but it's been really rough.
So, if you are a praying person, there you have it. (If you're not, ask the
universe to get it right.)
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Candy LONGWORTH Arnold ('64-RIP) ~ 8/6/46 - 2/16/23
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