August twenty-ninth.......our 51st wedding anniversary.....

9:18 am - Tuesday - August 30th - Likely, CA - 79° F, 17% humidity, wind 12 mph out of the south by southwest.....still partly cloudy, and the forecast high is still 95° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I were taking a walk on Seal Rock Beach.......↴ 

Monday was the 4th day of our 4 day work stint.  It was slated to get up to 93° F, so I was on the job by 6:30 am staging (10) and washing golf carts (6).   As it turned out we would only rent 7 golf carts Monday.  After that I spent time using the 'Shag Bag' to clear golf balls from the perimeter of the driving range in advance of actually shutting the driving range at 11 am to collect the rest.  I managed to collect one 5 gallon can of balls to clean.  Later at 11 am I shut the range, and collected another two 5 gallon cans of balls using the ball retrieving machine, which, thanks to Bob, works wonderfully now.  I was off at 3 pm.

August 29th has been an important day in my life since the day I was born.  You see, my father was born on August 29th, 1923 and TLE and I were married on August 29th, 1971.  Without my father's birth I would not exist, TLE would not be my wife, and you would not be reading my blog. I first met TLE in January of 1968 while home  from college during the winter semester break, so as of this year (2022) I have known her just shy of 55 years of my almost 73 years of life.  It's hard for me to remember a time she was not part of my life......

In June of 1968....our first date

At Manhattan Beach the summer of 1971 a few weeks prior to our wedding

Our wedding day, August 29, 1971

In October of 1971 at Harrah's in South Lake Tahoe....I think we were seeing Bill Cosby that night....I look like I'm 15....lol!

Somewhere around Lake Tahoe in 1975....our son, Christopher, was about 4 years old at the time

At a church dance around 1988

2012 - 41st anniversary in Twin Falls, ID at Canyon Crest Restaurant

2013 - Anniversary dinner at Picabu Bistro in Spokane, WA

2015 - Anniversary dinner at Nephele's in South Lake Tahoe, CA

2017 - 46th anniversary at Chico Hot Springs, MT shared with good friends Roscoe, Geni and Dodge (Kristin Dodge).....the best,  most amazing anniversary dinner in our 10 years of nomadic life

2018 - Anniversary dinner at Red Sky in Southwest Harbor, ME

2020 - Near Coupeville, WA on our 49th anniversary

2020 - 49th anniversary shared with long, long time friends Bob and Karen at Fraser's Gourmet Hideway in Coupeville, WA

And the golden one....numero 50 at Georgie's Beachside Grill in Newport, OR last year

.....life is good, and the year's continue to pile one upon the other.

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