Again to Sprague, Alane weeding along their driveway while Chris supervises.
Chris, second in command of the Sprague Maintance Department.
His boss is the only other employee.
Sam demonstrates the new windows in the old part of the house.
Eli and Sam jumping for the tennis ball, sort of a game with tennis balls using your hand as a racket.
Adah approaches Smudge, who is ignoring her.
Click on this one (or any photo to see a bigger picture).
The neighbors dog joins in with the tennis ball.
We go for dinner in Spokane, at Riverside park the kids run with the sculptures while we wait.
Sam
Eli
T-Ball practice in Sprague, very near the Michels house.
Sam starts to swing - he makes a hit and goes on base.
Eli hits another and gets on base.
Adah hit's the ball out of sight and runs to first base.
First year for neighbor Gabe as a T-Ball player.
Sprague Catholic Church from the ballfield.
The bandstand downtown Sprague - Adah, Sam and Eli.
The Canal downtown is flowing during this wet Spring - Adah at the fence.
Eli with his built in GPS all ready to go!
(This photo was not digitally enhanced)
Jean and I visit Dad Matthews' good friend Elaine at Wesley Homes.
Part of Laura's mother day card from Rachel and Anne.
Laura on left, then Rachel and Anne.
Backyard, May 10
To Richland May 10 - 15
Scott working on the Chevy project - where is Ken?
Look close, he is visable under the chassis. (Click to enlarge)
A walk along the Columbia, water very high.
But not as high as the water was in June of 1948.
This slide (from a web site) shows the dike protecting homes in Richland then. View looking north.
The house just showing behind the workers standing on the truck is the one in the photo below.
I was 10 when I took this picture looking south. The dike covered the road, after the flood a permanent dike was built farther out. Our house was about 500 ft. to the west.
After dinner at Margaret & Trevor's, a cloud burst.
Trevor and Brandon watch water shoot up out of a street drain.
On our way home. Car window view of a 1940's plutonium processing plant (on right) at Hanford.
Passing Wanapum Dam where much water is being released as is true of all the Columbia River dams this year due to a heavy snow pack.
Back Home
Jean assisting loading a car for meals-on-wheels in Bellevue.
We have nice weather! Tom likes this view laying on the grass while takeing a break from landscaping our front yard. Apple tree recovering from pruning and a vine maple on the right.
Jean, barely in view behind the rhody, is removing ivy from along the road. Tom is trying to get the rhody roots in the foreground out.
Success! Now to fill in and put in more plants.
Find the tree frog in the Rhody.
The view in early April before removal.
After removal of two rhody's.
A view from the road after we put bark down where the ivy was removed and added plants. The idea is to open up the front to match better last year's landscaping.
