Mary & Qtip finishing up their vacation

at the trailer

not for the queamish....

no I didn't punch him...

what a shiner!!!!!

I was amazed at this surgery...I watched Dr. Smith perform it to perfection.
How he drew on his skin cut then stretched and sewed  to cover that huge hole.

He started out by inflating the tumor with fluid, then drew around it with a pen......and cut the center out
the dark is where he cauterized the bleeders.  Dad slept through it all.

I put the pictures in this order because this last photo was so shocking!!!!

to me anyway and I saw it in real life.

This is where Mary worked in Coronado, San Diego

what fun we had fun taking our motorhome down and camping on the 

beaches nearby....and Mary and friends coming to visit and John

and Sue coming and leaving Danny to stay with us and the boat rides 

Mary and Bridget took him on .....oh to turn back the clock!!!!

Happy Birthday Bobby

Julie too this photo...lesson from auntie Cathleen

Bobby has some neat toys....

Mary in La Jolla and San Diego

La Jolla

some of your South Dakota cousins

he Fortune Sisters (a.k.a The Fortune Cookies): Kay Williams, Judy Harrington, (Janet Warra - from heaven), Billie Hett, Pam Fortune Dale, MaryLou Guptill

Mary working in Long Beach

Hanging out with my new friend Jane H. Adams, Executive Director, California
Park & Recreation Society.

Underneath Cool logo by Fortune2!!!!!

Mary with Christina

Mary in Long Beach with Christina

Google earth

looking back...

Dad was graduating from high school

a friend from the Latham myfamily site fools around in photoshop and redid the photo of Dad

Your grandfather Fred....

Fred A Fortune

fooling around with Goggle Earth....

Our house and street

amazing!!!!
you can look at your house too.....

http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html

i love my Kindle...

I am always amazed at the wonderful books I have read since I have been a Kindle owner (thanks to son John).  So many to recommend.

I just finished the book "Oregon Country" by T.J. Hansen historical fiction about the 1843 Oregon migration.....a wonderful book that takes you right along with them.

Before that...the great story "the Help" by Kathryn Stockett and you know the rest as you have probably seen the movie.  But you have to read the book!!

What started my interest in Historical biographies was 2 books by Elinor Pruitt Stewart...one called "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" and Letters on an Elk Hunt".....both absorbing reads.

WR work and fun

grinding rock on creek road to shooting range

hog wallow (where was this?)

the daffodils in all their glory

 ALMOST A DAFFODIL HILL