A Story Lovely as a Tree or Two

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Thank you, Caroline from the Daily Bee, for featuring our high school class story in such a prominent setting in today's Bonner County Daily Bee. 

This September, the Sandpoint High Class of 1965 will be celebrating our 60th-year reunion. 

Earlier this spring, it dawned on us that those trees we planted 60 years ago at our high school are still thriving. 

The building is no longer our high school. When a new high school was built next door, the structure became known as Sandpoint Middle School. 

Happily, the trees from the Class of 1965 have remained, and we are proud. 

So, it was neat for the reunion committee to get together earlier this month for the photo, which, by the way, was taken by Bill Love. 

I don't know if the story will appear online, but if and when it does, I'll post it. 

 Til then, I hope readers from Sandpoint who have today's paper appreciate the contribution our class made and especially that those trees have lasted and provided beautiful accessories to the school grounds. 

They also serve as living proof that sometimes we have to draw on our patience to fully enjoy the seeds of permanence that we have planted in this life, but when they still thrive decades later, oh, what a feeling!

I popped into the Sandpoint High Class of 1990 reunion at MickDuff's Beer Hall for a quick few minutes yesterday afternoon. 

It was a delightful but short visit AND, while there, I had to take a photo of two 1990 grads who were also in Bill's Boy Scout Troop 111 group. 

That would be Dean Sylvester and James Martin. 

Thanks to the Beth Raynor Ponsness for the invitation and thanks so much to each of you for the warm welcome and the almost immediate, collective eruption of Marc Antony's funeral oration from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Wish the visit could have been longer. 

Twas a yum, yum night for Bill and me last night.  He cooked hamburgers on the grill and I cooked brand new garden veggies from the garden in a saucepan. 

With salt, pepper, onion salt and a little Country Crock spread, and the result was better than any candy.

We also popped a few Sungold tomatoes for some true sweetness. 

Lovin' the garden goodies, and my digestive system seems to be welcoming them too.  Fingers crossed that the good eats can continue.

 

“It is just as important to walk 7,000 steps a day as it is to take your pills,” said Dr. Joshua Knowles, a cardiologist at Stanford Health Care.

I saw the quote above in a story this morning and thought it was worth posting.  Lots of benefits come from walking as much as is physically possible.

As for me, walking is my pill. Hope I can keep it up as long as possible.