July 9-10 Tri-Cities, WA.

Monday

What a fun day!  Tom and Sharon Halazon were leaving with their RV to go on vacation, but said they'd meet us for breakfast on their way out of town.

From there we drove the hour to Walla Walla, WA. to visit Chuck and Karen Hindman for the morning and breakfast.  The guys even strummed a few tunes together.

Then to Barb Warner's.  Her husband, Mark, was Tom's best friend for 20 years-gun shows, music.  He died from injuries in a motorcycle accident 23 months ago.  We hadn't seen Barb in that time.  She gave Tom one of Mark's banjos.  He's had one for many years, but never learned to play.  A man is teaching lessons in Vail, so he told her he'll sell his and learn on Mark's.  She also gave him three more of his Hawaiian shirts.

Back to Kennewick to take Russ and Kitty to Tom's favorite Chinese restaurant - the China Café.

Tuesday

Did a couple of errands and visited our former next door neighbor, Irmi, at Pinewood.  She is 85, doing well, and so glad to see us.

From there to Dave and Carol Schneidmiller's to prepare for our party.  They were gracious to open their home for 25 of our friends to come over.  It turned out that they knew a few of them.  We had lots of hugs, short visits, and Tom and Marc Harden played some music.  Tom loves doing that, but said he sure misses out on visiting when that goes on.  Everyone enjoys it and misses him not being around.  It was really nice to see everyone.