THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  Cruising Alaska’s Inland Passage on the Island Princess.  We were docked at Ketchikan here. I’ll bet the folks who own this houseboat have fun on the water!  It’s anchored on Don Pedro Lake not too far from where we live. Back in 1983, looking into the possibility of renting a houseboat on Lake Shasta the following summer, we had a tour of one of the rentals and I took a picture of the kids thinking about the fun they could have – except we never followed through which is too bad.  It probably would have been fun, but other expenditures came up and that was the end of the houseboating idea.  Oh well. Meeks Bay’s speedboat, the  Effie Moon,  took folks out for rides on Lake Tahoe.  In 1954 I’m up front on the far right.  They had two boats. The other was called Stardust.  Those old woodies were so pretty! Pulling double skiers.  I met these boys in 1960 at Tahoe.  What fun.  I tried to learn to water ski, but couldn’t qui...

  My husband’s maternal grandfather, Harry Brasier’s hockey team in 1898-99.  Harry is on the left end of the 2 nd of 4 loosely formed rows. Later Harry played for a larger team.  Here he is on the right end of the 2 nd row wearing a black sleeveless tee & holding a hockey stick threatening the poor guy seated on the ground to his left.  1981 – Our son, the goalie, and his soccer team in Oakhurst, California. 1981 – eldest daughter and her soccer team. Eldest daughter in action on the soccer field during her first year playing the game! 1981 – youngest daughter and her soccer team. It was interesting to watch all the parents splitting up and running around trying, like us, to watch all our children playing on different teams on Saturday mornings in different areas of the local high school fields.  And then the high school JV football team would come out to play a game on the football field and heads would swing around yet again.  Fun times. In 1983 ...

  My husband’s grandfather, Harry Brasier, before he was married so sometime before 1909, went canoeing across five Canadian lakes with several friends.  These are two of those friends sitting in front of their tent somewhere on the shore of one of those Canadian lakes. My Dad and his younger sister in front of the family tent at Meeks Bay, Lake Tahoe in the early 1920s. My Dad in the early 1930s with his one man wonder tent. 1945 – My Mom stands in front of the inherited Bradley family tent during a short camping get-away with my Dad on a break from dealing with three little children 5 years old and younger. (Mom’s sis-in-law, my Aunt Shirley, was taking care of us back home.)  And oh my gosh – Mom’s wearing a dress!  Camping!!  Mom!!!  What were you thinking?    Two years later in 1947 with the old Bradley tent and our 1942 Pontiac sedan.  This time we kids came along.  That’s me standing by the car.  I was 7, my brother, 4, and m...