[Jenn[_2_]]

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Boon wrote:

On Jul 30, 10:18*pm, Jenn wrote:
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*Boon wrote:
I'm sorry for your loss, Jenn!

Thanks. *He was a good, honorable man. *Only one serious flaw, in my eyes.
*Crazy carpenter skills. *Didn't
graduate from high school, but made sure that he instilled in me a serious
work ethic. *He served in WWII,
reporting to Pearl Harbor on Dec. 9, 1941. *Retired as head of
maintainance of the Vista school district. *I'll miss him.

He moved to Oklahoma last year, to the tiny town where he was born and
raised. *So we had to go back there
for the services and burial. *Interesting to spend some time on the edge of
civilization.

My father is from Oklahoma as well, raised on a farm near Rush Springs
during the Depression.

For my Mom and Dad it was Chelsea, up by Claremore. Population 2000,
probably a quarter of them related to me in some way. I spend some time
there every other summer until I was 16...riding horses, shooting
pistols with my cousins (largely at snakes)... The most humid place
I've ever been.

I've spent some time there as well; there's
something mystical and primal about a place where the wind is always
howling over the plains.

Ha! Speaking of "Oklahoma" on the drive back to Tulsa for our flight
home, we found THE "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" in Claremore. Funny!