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  Jeannie
Beth as Beatrice
In her final season with Taproot Theatre's Shakespeare
Super Camp, Jean landed the
female lead in Much Ado
About Nothing.
She played the quick wit and
sharp tongue of Beatrice in the
verbal war and manufactured
romance with Benedict, played by
James. Last year
James played Master Ford to
Jean's Mistress Ford in The
Merry Wives of Windsor.
This version was set at an
Orange plantation in Southern
California sometime in the
1930s. It was a most memorable
production.
Along with the acting, Jean
enjoyed driving the van to class
on her own.
A second two weeks at Taproot
saw her in the role of Arvida
Abernathy in the musical
Guys and Dolls. She
is pictured below with Renee
playing Sergeant Sarah Brown of
the Save-a-Soul Mission.
The character "Arvida" is a
change of gender for Sarah's
grandfather Arvide Abernathy.
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Notes on Dad and Mom
Dad and Randy managed to make it to the
Saturday performance of Guys and Dolls.
Dad is moving slowly with his
walker-with-a-seat. I spent Friday the 27th with Dad in
West Seattle to let Randy go golfing with his Land Surveyors
professional society. Dad's hearing is such that we did
not talk much. And his eyesight is still poor, and he
sleeps a lot. He
had injured his forearm and needed more assistance than normal.
Taking the bus to 7565 46th Ave SW is easy enough for me but I
rarely go out there.
Now that brother Don is officially retired
from PACCAR, as opposed to unemployed, he and Judy can watch
over Grandma Jean more, and give Nancy and myself some rest.
Randy says he can begin to take Mom on weekends again starting
in late September.
This month Don and
Judy took Grandma Jean to the family condo at Depoe Bay for a
week. In this picture, I've colored a window of this
3-bedroom condo red. I love this town and this facility,
although Nancy is not interested in it. But, like her,
being part owner of a condominium with regular dues has no place
in our lifestyle.
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 Construction in McKenna Hall
Concludes
Two months of construction concluded with
the complete re-carpeting of McKenna Hall. As the
designated building manager, a task assigned by my dean, I acted
as the liaison between the SBE faculty and staff and my
counterpart, Russ Howard, in the Project Management department.
Since the faculty are not under contract in July and August, a
long list of jobs fell to me. (The work would have fallen
to me in any case.)
Jeff Van Duzer praised me at every
opportunity, in part because he could go on vacation or be about
the business of the dean, and not worry about this major
project.
For my part, I removed eleven boxes of
assorted junk from my own office (now clogging up my basement
home office), got an office computer upgrade and new carpet and Dr.
Wong's hand-me-down bookcase, and a 40" round blue Boeing
surplus table which is now in our kitchen in Bellevue.
◄ "My" computer lab gets emptied and new carpet installed.
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August
Means Seafair in Seattle
If it were not for the Blue Angels, our
family would not pay any attention to Seafair activities.
Overcast skies meant a "low show" this year and fewer flyovers of
Bellevue. But I still climbed to the top of the house to
try and capture "The Blues."
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SBE Rides the Ducks
Jeff, Lindsey, Elizabeth, Mark, John, Kathy,
and Denise rode the Ducks with me for our annual staff event.
I enjoyed it much more than I'd expected.
We left from near the Space Needle on 5th
Avenue and went to the stadium district, then returned and went
up Aurora Avenue and back on Stoneway Ave. N. Just east of
Gasworks Park we took to the water and made a short loop around
the north end of Lake Union. We returned across the
Freemont bridge and Westlake Avenue. Our driver, "Barnaby
Wild," was a witty character, giving us a running comedic
commentary on our city.
Lunch afterwards at the local Outback
Steakhouse topped off the outing.
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July 16, 2011
Plans and purchases are well underway for a
July 2011 wedding. Annie purchased her wedding dress and
bridesmaid dresses this month. The wedding is scheduled for
University Presbyterian Church. And even their honeymoon is
planned with reservations made.
For Annie, August was a month of job hunting
and staying in touch with many of her college friends. She did
land a job with the Bellevue
Learning Center, but that's an early September event.
Tom and Annie have talked about applying to teach English in
Japan in 2011-12. Tom is still looking for a job.
Here they are painting the baseboards for
Annie's bedroom. There are many house projects pending
this fall, mostly involving floors and doors and interior
windows. But late August found us out in the yard taking
on a year of neglected yard work.
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Nancy at 55
The family salvaged many of the Gravenstein
apples from our tree and Tom showed us his family's way of
making apple pie.
The easiest and cheapest way to find a
birthday present for Nancy (and she does like it when I don't
spend money) is to frame my photos for her. I consulted
with each child to select a photo of each.
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Bits and Pieces
Jeannie Beth's senior year of classes do not include a
third year of foreign language because she wants to do that in
college she says. And to fit in two Choir classes, she has
managed to pick up computer programming, which I have been
advocating for her for four years.
Nate's summer grades at the UW were in the B+ range in Chem
III and in Differential Equations. So his short stay as a
Husky was successful.
My visit to Dr. Robert Kelley produced
good numbers across the board. If I can get more exercise,
the numbers should be great when I visit him next in November.
My visit to Dr. To required a follow-up visit to replace a
filling gone bad. See below.
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