Vets Day

 Getting xmas cards ready... taking many steps this year. Hope they aren't too "lumpy" as post office does not like that...

Harvest cards....

Niece got these for me for Veterans Day.. and took me to the parade here in Redmond, the rain stopped just in time.. Since it was rainy that day in the early hours, the flag people did not put out the flags, 1st time in  long time, or as long as i can remember that the flags were not up and down the main streets in Redmond, makes quite a show and is so very patriotic... love seeing them

Here is our local band.. the other high school had their band in it too, but as far as many of us are concerned THIS is the only one!!! When i was much.... much.... younger the Redmond band was really something and even marched in the Rose Parade in Portland.  Remember them practicing up and down the streets for months before hand.  It is a real accomplishment to get a band  together and be good enough to do that, lots of practice.. they played from memory too!  The music director was Clyde Moore and he always had a great band and chorus... And there were twice as many in the band back then, and the city was only 4000 people with about 600 in the high school, but they came from all over deschutes county as Redmond has one of the largest in area school dist in the state.. now i think our population is close to 20,000 and two high schools, redmond high alone has over 2,000 students

Take Care and God Bless