"you are the bows...."Randy, continued.

When we Moved to Loveland, Colordado Randy had saved up enough money from the sale of his lambs on Gramercy Place in Riverside, California to start a business. He was in 8th grade. We visited the Gambles store in Loveland and in Fort Collins where he dickered for a tractor lawnmower. We went back and forth enough times for Randy to ascertain that the Loveland spokesperson had given up as much as humanly possible to make the deal. He must have been a tough negotiater for years later when Randy was in a superivisory position at the Greeley HP plant an employee came up to him and said something to the effect that aren't you the kid that beat me out of my full commission those many years ago. Randy was one of three HP employees that put together the digital camera and he was the numbers cruncher.He visited a Chinese factory where over 7000 people sat around on little stools maybe not unlike the old milk stools I got to sit on while milking the four cows before I went to school. Embarrissing enough was the fact that my Mother, Emma Thompson Rye, milked five cows to my four.
One of the difficulties Randy faced in his new business that I had to hook up the trailer to haul him around from job to jobs that weren't in the neighborhood.

Today, I am a guest teacher at Westview High School in Avondale, Arizona. I have a free period and thanks to Randy"s son, Court, I am able to stumble my way on to this blog site and sing praises to the skills that Court and Randy have managed to spoon feed me with. On the 17th of May I will drive to Colorado for Cassie's birthday on the 18th and her high school graduation on the 22nd of May.
It is indeed a small world. I was at the Sun City Singles dance last Friday evening and I was introduced to a lady and her name was Opal. I said I had a sister named Opal, Opal Rye Nelson.
She mentioned Fort Collins and I told her that I was going there to my Grandaughter's graduation on th 22nd. Strangely enough, her grandaughter, Lacey Smith, will be at the same ceremony as will her grandmother.
In high school Randy had a major part to Ms Roberta Price's production of HELLO DOLLY.
He was also on the swim team and was in meets at the Air Force Accademy. He drove the push button transmission 62 Chrysler Newport to school and once when Dan tried to give him advice he made Dan get out and walk home.(to be continued)