Good bye Everett Thornbough

Myrna and Lew bring Ansel's fav peanut brittle

Gary and Joan bring birthday wishes

The Tack Room

Aug 5, 2009 Bookcases memorialize Martina, Terry, and Tim

When our friend Jill was visiting last week for Ansel's birthday, she helped me clean the cluttered bookcases that line the hallway between the living room and kitchen. This was a huge undertaking. You just can't imagine how much "stuff" was crammed and cluttered there. After we got them all clean and empty, then we thoughtfully dedicated a section to Martina, Terry, and my boys respectively.

August 3, 2009 Ansel's 94th Birthday BBQ

August 3rd was the day we had what has become a traditional Ansel Marshall Birthday BBQ with my infamous BBQ'd marinated tri-tip. We had over 30 friends come and hang out with us at the Marshall home on OB Riley in Bend . One fun thing we did this year was to round-robin and have each person introduce themselves and tell the rest of us how they met Ansel and Martina. This was very interesting as very few of the attendees really knew each other, other than seeing each other at Ansel's party.

Aug 1, 4-H Pigs at the Fair

2008 Deschutes Co Fair
Friends Bradley and Alec Carter, Cole and Shandra Scott had 4-H pigs entered in the Fair. Ansel, Taylor and I took advantage of the family day pass and went to check them out.