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A Follow-up Story About my Little Friend, Kristel Time goes so fast, especially when there are such good and wonderful times. Kristel

A Wonderful Guest, A Wonderful Year It was the year 1967. My husband Hal and I were living in the Bellevue Park Condos, and I had an interesting job at Heisdorf and Nelson, Poultry Breeders in Houghton/ Washington. They were breeding and shipping

Gracious Twins:

Snowy Winter Fun 1937 was an especially cold winter in Germany with wave after wave of snow coming with very cold temperatures from Russia. The snow piled up, pushed back from the streets so high that one could not see the cars on the street from the sidewalk. There was a beautiful hill, not a …

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1980: Our Hopes Were Granted It was the end of October 1980. My husband Hal received the paperwork from his Employer AT&T for our transfer back to Seattle after 12 years. I was elated for my Hal, knowing how much he was waiting for this day. But I had mixed feelings. Happy for my Hal …

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A Late Summer Weekend at Lake Starnberg It was late summer 1953. Eleven years, 1942, that my father, Peppi and I had sailed his beautiful sailing vessel

Trying Foolish Things with Consequences It was the summer of 1941 and my friend Hedy and my sister

My Favorite Delicate Little Anemone It was a beautiful summer day and there was a big birthday party planned for me. It was a sunny day in June of 1935, I was eight years old and my dear sister Friedl was ten. For that we wanted to have our

Sockeye Sighting at Shinglemill Creek, Vashon Island Marcie Sims As we walked along the creek, our dog spotted you first, alerting us to your presence. In barely two inches of water, in the clear but rapidly moving shallow creek, there you were. Hooked-nosed and crimson in your old age, returning by instinct for this final …

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THE SR-71 The Black Bird, a Stunning, Awesome Plane It was May of 2012 and my husband Hal had received an invitation to join a friend for a luncheon at the Museum of Flight Air Museum at Boing field in Seattle, Washington. Hal was ecstatic about this luncheon, not so for the food, but the …

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