YOU ARE THE BOWS FROM WHICH YOUR CHILDREN AS LIVING ARROWS ARE SENT FORTH,part 3 Dan Rye

On my Wednesday, July 13th post I recorded Dan's 46th birthday. I mentioned that Caroline Leeland, a friend of my Mother, Emma Thompson Rye, journeyed with us to California to care for Angela and Randy as Donna gave birth to Daniel Gene Rye.

Now, thanks to my generous Grandson, Court Rye, I am able to share one of the first photos of Donna, Caroline, Angela Ann And Randy standing before the first semi-permanent rental in Riverside, California.
I was, at the time, teaching at Sierra Junior High School.

Court has arranged upward of 300 pictures on a website for me which I can transfer to the text as I go along.You can view them by going to my website on the link entitled Rye Memory Lane Photo Album. I am deeply greatful to Court for all of his devotion to this effort and according to Randy , Court stayed up most of the night to complete the job before returning to CU at Boulder, where by the way, his sister, My Granddaughter is also enrolled in an honors program. Randy has been and continues to be on great father, as great as his is a great son.We thank him for giving such devotion to his beautiful children. Are we proud or what?
We went to California in 1958 and we did not lose track of or forget the gift that Caorline Leeland gave to us, the gift of herself. In 1965 we had purchased a29' Terry travel trailer and would make trips each summer to see our relatives in Minnesota. That year we returned by going up to Fargo, N.D. and visited Caroline.I can't remember much of the visit except that we were glad to see one another again. After that we sort of lost contact. We continued on from Fargo into Canada and across Canada to Vancouver, British Columbia where within a day or two, Dan, Bridgid and Summer will anchor their boat "SUNSHINE" and return to Phoenix on the 22nd after a five week cruise in the Inland Passage. When we lived on
Gramercy Place and Dan was about 8 years old he built a boat in the garage that never saw water. In high school or college, he tried to get a job on a boat during the summer break.It didn't work out but it has worked out for him now. Sail on oh ship of state , sail on,oh family strong and great!