The "Current Events" from 2000 and 2001
2001-12-01
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Went to the
Anza Borrego desert to get a little dirt bike riding in.
Unfortunately, Jun got
injured during the first 5 miles of the ride. |
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Jun was off
to the hospital to find out the bad news that he has separated his
shoulder (the Acromio-clavicular joint) and broke 4 ribs. |
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Jacob, at
the Saturday night fire.
Jacob spent all day
Saturday building the fire ring and collecting the fire wood. |
On
our way home, on Sunday, we stopped in Julian and had apple pie.
Is this kid cute?
2001-11-30
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Jeff Persh,
Michelle Seel and I had 20th and 25th anniversaries at Boeing.
We pooled
our funds and had a great anniversary luncheon on the boat to the right,
in Marina Del Rey. |
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| Jeff and
Michelle are sitting on the right side of the table. |
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Sarah Meyer,
Sandy and Michelle
Seel. |
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David, Jeff,
Bea, Diane and Kevin.
We could not
have picked a nicer day to spend on the waters in Marina Del Rey. |
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A luncheon
that ended way to soon. |
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2001-11-04
| We got an early
start and headed to "El Mirage Dry Lake".
After riding there for
nearly 30 years, it is a special treat to ride there with our Grandson,
Son-in-Law and Daughter. |
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| Jacob is
getting the riding down! |
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| It is a great
family sport. |
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| This is Jacob
smiling, about 30 minutes after he crashed into the hole in which he is
standing! |
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| He was a little
scared to get too close to the hole in which he had previously crashed! |
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It was a beautiful drive home from the High Desert.
2001-10-31
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Jacob was
Scooby-Doo for Halloween! |
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Grandma and
Jacob. |
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At Jacob's age,
he really enjoys Halloween. |
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He is our
treasure! |
2001-10-27
| On the 27th of
October we visited Oak Glen for the apples. |
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| Jacob and the
family visited a Petting Zoo at the apple fair. |
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| This is Jacob
feeding the piglets at the end of a pig race. |
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| This is Jacob
"Milking" his first goat. |
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| Jacob,
appropriately standing next to a "Philippino Taxi Cab". |
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On the way home, we stopped by Jacob's Great Grandfather's home!
2001-10-07
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Sandy and I visit a car show in Riverside. Love the Studebakers! |
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My token artistic shot! |
2001-10-06
| Wendy's
birthday was on 10-06 |
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| Jacob's
birthday was on 10-05
This is Jacob, forming a
line for the Piņata game! |
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| His is cute, or
what? |
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2001-08-24
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competition is stiff around the Ploung household for sympathy.
As most of you
have heard, Sandy had a heart attack on Friday, the 24th of August
She is now
home and feeling much better. |
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Sandy and Wendy, waiting to get out of the hospital. |
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August 30th, and Jun is recovering from Gall Bladder surgery.
He is also
doing well! |
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was not a shooting victim...
Merely
surgery! |
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2001-03-24
This weekend we had the enjoyment of Lena and Charlie spending the weekend with
us. The frosting on the cake was that we also had Jacob for most of the
weekend. We kept them busy. The weekend included motocross tracks,
sky diving schools, train museum, car shows and Old Town Pasadena.
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Charlie, Lena, Sandy and Jacob at the Perris Valley Train Museum. I
think Charlie enjoyed seeing all the old equipment.
Lena and
Charlie saw "Red Cars" which they had both traveled on when younger. |
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Jacob, contemplating Grandpa's idea of sky diving.
As the picture
shows, he was NOT too excited about the idea! |
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Jacob getting ready for the busy day.
This picture
makes you ask the question, "Will Jacob turn out to be a Plumber?" |
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Charlie and Jacob enjoying a ride on an electric street car. |
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Lena and Sandy resting in a 1950's environment. |
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Charlie and Jacob riding in a rail car behind a Diesel Locomotive. |
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Dad... This one is for you.
A 1961
Studebakers pickup truck. |
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Skip Allen and I work together at Hughes Aircraft Company.
He is trying
to quit smoking, or so he says.
For some
reason, he looked surprised when I showed up with my camera. |
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Skip's beautiful Ford.
Unfortunately,
he was hit by a female driver on the way to the Car Show (the dent is on
the other side of the car).
By the drivers
door you can see transmission fluid leaking from the transmission, which
was damaged by the accident. |
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This restored Camaro got me thinking more about restoring our 1968
Firebird convertible.
All it takes
is time and money. |
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As we were leaving the Pasadena area, we stopped by to say goodbye to
Skip, and to see if he had quit smoking.
Caught Again! |
2001-03-04
Palm Springs was the location of a week long tribute to this centuries most
famous "Industrial Designer", Raymond Loewy. He designed presidential
jets, the interior of the SST, locomotives, the Avanti and various Studebakers,
refrigerators, pencil sharpeners...... the list goes on and on. We went
because I love Avanti's. The Avanti Owners club also had a week long show
in conjunctions with the Raymond Loewy event.
Loewy's design philosophy is not a deeply intellectual one. He summarized it
with the acronym MAYA (most advanced, yet acceptable). The proliferation of
clean, functional, and dynamic products that emerged from the Loewy offices
throughout his long career provides testimony to his success in correctly making
the prediction "Most advanced, yet acceptable".
This car looked as if it was just driven off the showroom floor!
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Another 1963 Avanti, done up in a current color.
This car, and
the next, were on display at the art gallery at the bottom of the road
which leads up the mountain to the Tram, just north of Palm Springs. |
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This Avanti was at the same gallery. |
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In 1962 Studebaker was desperately trying to stay in the U.S. car market.
Their line of automobiles was getting old and dated. In an attempt to
revive the company, Studebaker hired Raymond Loewy to design a futurist
automobile. Raymond, and a small staff was sent to Palm Springs and
instructed to design this modernistic car. This is the house (at 2788 Via
Escuela, Palm Springs), were the designers lived during this design effort.
This shanty is the worst looking house in a nice neighborhood.
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This was one molded mockup of the Avanti, on a pedestal, in the backyard
of the home pictured above. (I would guess this picture is from the
1961-62 time frame).
The model had
four headlights, but the car entered production with only two
Raymond Loewy,
pictured with the car he designed. |
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In
2000 a new company has again started production of the Avanti. I
believe the car is on a Camaro chassis. They have made 8 cars so
far. The convertible is $82,000.
I
know what I would do if I won the lottery! |
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We enjoyed a day
in Legoland with Jacob and Wendy.
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Legoland
2001-02-24
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Mumford's see a daughter leave the nest.
On the waters
of Newport, Melanie and Chad get married on the "Icon".
The wedding
toasts left a mark with everybody! |
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150
friends enjoyed the wedding of Melaine and Chad.
It seems that
our daughter was babysitting Melanie a few short years ago.
How time flys! |
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Pat and Chris. |
Chris and the father of the Bride. |
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Michelle and Terry, dancing up a storm during the wedding receptions. |
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2001-02-11
On the 11th of
February we visited the Norton Simon Museum, which is located in Pasadena.
Wayne and Judy, Steve and Kathy and Wendy, Jun and Jacob joined us on this
visit. We are doing everything possible to "Culturalize" Jacob.
I
believe that it is important to expose Jacob to different styles of "Art".
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He
is a little gentleman.
This was
probably his 10th visit to a museum, in his few short years.
He seems to
have a preference for the "Impressionistic" period. |
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this a good looking kid or not?
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Jacob
has selected Jun and Wendy's new truck (9-17-2000)
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Grandpa is
trying to buy me off with a drink! |
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We
took Jacob to Fashion Island Mall, to play in the various fountains. |
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A Few
pictures, prior to going to dinner. |
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This
week we had another great time with Jacob. I believe that you will
find that this will become a recurring topic, no matter which page you go
to. I do not think three years old is too young to learn to
fly......
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At
his age it was a real challenge to locate our home, but he did succeed! |
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Another interesting sight this week was seeing the old Hughes facility being
demolished! |
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more picture of the entire Fullerton site |
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In
closing , we also went to a great Brazilian restaurant with Wendy, Jun and
Jacob! |
 
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