On This Day Aug 24

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1975	Dropped David off at Mom's and went to the State Fair with Chris. Gail and I went on the double ferris wheel. Looked at cows and horses. Mexican Village, 4H, arcade and bandstand. Bought a Polish cookbook and cowboy boots for Te. Chris won a red stuffed bull at a squirtgun sideshow and gave it to David. Reached Dawson at 9PM. (see photos)
1976	Heather McGhie returned our Sears catalog and brought along her parents, the Murphys, out from England. Bussed to Foodtown where Dwayne got Te a bread and butter sandwich and water from the staff canteen. Taxi back. Aldies came by to look at latest batch of slides.
1980	Su - Mass at St Pascals, in basement, very informal, much singing, new readings. Dick and Joyce visited.
1981	M - Discovered Kelley's series are geometric and can be reduced so I spent 3 hours working out a formula for each case. Watched Twins beat Yankees 3 - 2 on Hrbek's walkoff homer in his first major league game.
1982	T - Did Itasca State Park guided tour with about 20 others. Viewed an abandoned saw mill (1900). Told about the Quaking Aspen (Popple) once used for newsprint now run into a large "pencil sharpener" to make particle board. David brought back a bunch of jack pine cones to see if they pop when heated. Guide showed us a field of pansies, which when dried are used for model railway "trees". We found and crossed the Mississippi River headwaters. Wandered through Indian burial mounds. Had lunch on the lake and then did the museum and an old cabin which had been a store and post office. Drove around the whole park to get to the fire watch tower. On the way we stopped to look at the biggest white pine (112') and red pine (120' - 300 years old 37" diameter). Ne and I climbed to the top of the 100' tower. Was windy up there and I had to hang onto Ne. My legs cramped on me and it was a very slow walk back to the car a mile away. Gail and Te rowed out to fish. Ne played with Amber and Keri who live at the resort.
1985	Sa - Reg Briggs showed us 62 Beach Road, which we thought might be the next place for us. Kids and I picked Ian up at airport. Brought along a boom box that I'll buy for David.
1990	Towns brought us on a tour of Prescott: VA hospital, Thumb Butte picnic area and Goldwater Lake (video). Got flight tickets to Mpls ($960) at Prescott Travel Agency. Bought Southern Comfort Crystal (orange flavor) and a Lotto ticket. Played Pass Rummy (video). Had orange roughie for supper. Paper reports mold count - aspergillus = 29.	Thumb Butte
1992	Ian brought Steven over and David and I brought him to Auckland University. He showed us around. We sat in on talks for Maths, Physics and Computer Science. hecked out the Enchanted Forest at 246. Long stint in the uni bookstore. We watched karate and fencing in the gym.
1996	Sa - Got a battery for the van and the fellow was able to figure out why car boot light doesn't go out - security button not being depressed fully. Dale and Roy stopped in.
1997	Su - Day 48 of our 3 month journey around the world. See 1997 Trip Photo Journal.
1999	T - My new 450MHz 17" monitor computer arrived.
2000	Th - Couple hours at Berthe's setting up Hotmail. She gave me a pack Speculaasje cookies. Doug over with pakoras that Trish made. Played RnR Scattergories.
2001	Daphne picked me up and I managed to fix her computer enough so that she could use it. When she brought me home, found Ann and Christopher here. New World - ran into Berthe there (back from Taranaki). Picked up fish 'n chips. TP at our place. Julian, Marcel and Chris played a skateboard game on David's computer while we played.
2002	Packed and waited for Chris and Celia to pick me up and bring me to Rhonda's to meet Tony, the girls Sam, Syd and Emily; Mary's mother, Alice, and to say goodbye to Howard and Mary.
2003	Warriors game. Chris in his XXO Dickey shorts with a Adidas belt to match in size. Behind a brilliant Webb they won 22-14.
2011	W - Frank said that I was the best patient he had ever had. We had many good chats covering a variety of subjects.
2012	F - Pete and Audrey (Hamilton) brought Simon and Fran for a four hour visit. Saw videos of Chris' family and heard about Julie's struggles with her jobs and renting from the two while Simon tried to arm wrestle Fran into giving him a chance to speak.
2018	F - Warriors with Russell who bought me a steak and cheese sandwich which I couldn't eat. Peter at All Blacks game, so he missed a great game with "the boys" beating 4th place Panthers 36 - 16 (highlights). Home at 1AM (1hr52min).
2019	Sa - Up at 12:40AM to find David and ladies playing Agricola. I joined them for Alhambra. We tried Tokyo Tang chips. We had burnt Pronto buns for supper. Ne left and we played simple version of Terraforming Mars, tiramisu dessert followed by the Canadian Formula 1 race, won by Gail. I managed to pip David for 2nd on the last move. David and I played a couple games of Castles of Mad King Ludwig.
2020	M - AFL: St Kilda beat Suns by 4 in a see-saw battle up to the final second. Butler had 4 great goals (highlights).
2022	W - Couple games of Catan then Terraforming Mars until 8PM. We tried Smoky BBQ Cornados. I had a Barrito for supper and the women had saugages. AFL: Last place Roos scored 8 goals in a row and ended a 14 game losing streak beating Tigers (22 behinds) 92 - 88. Zurhaar had 6 goals. Cats rolled over Blues 85 - 55. Watched Warriors lose to Rabbitohs 48 -10.
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