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In memory of Chad A. Saarloos

The New Ulm Ambassador and family.

Pictured in full regalia in the lower left corner is Barbara Nelson wooing the crowd at a New Ulum parade.

"All the world's a stage.

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one person in his time plays many parts."

Shakespeare-

Barbara also pictured above at Lorrine's party ,June-2008, with Roger,DMV, retired, Ryan and Todd.

Break a leg, Barbara!!!!!!!!!

Barbara Nelson-New Ulm Ambassador

The Narrens of New Ulm are eager to greet each and every new visitor! They love to dance,"smile" for photos and entertain children of all ages.

Barbara is picture here at Lorraine Rye's birthday party in June of 2008.
Barbara is an RN and performs with the Narrens around the state.

Rock County,Minnesota

The Inscription:

This monument has been erected for the citizens of Rock County in proud and grateful memory of her soldiers, sailors, marines and airman who laid down their lives in all quarters of the earth that other people might be free from oppression.

In proud remembrance and in humble tribute to the sacrifices of the Rock County POW's

names listed-

The names recorde here are those Rock County MIA soldiers whose earthly resting place is known only to God

names listed

If you will notice that the circle and the walk way to the monument are paved with bricks on which the names,date of service and branch of service are noted.The walkway leads to the street and this summer I paid the fee in order that my name and that of my brother, Raymond, will be placed in the walkway.

Elgible for having their names recognized there are Orville Bakk, Donald Hegeson,Duane Nelson.

Relatives who served but were inducted in different counties are Gary Rye;Dale Rye;David Rye

Our county seat-Luverne, Mn.

I was drafted into the US Army from this county on June 18th, 1945.

My brother, Raymond, served in Anchorage, Alaska during the Korean War.

Donald Hegeson served in the army during the Korean War.

Gary Rye and Duane Nelson at later dates and Orville Bakk also served during WW2.

Dale Rye served during the Vietnam War and David Rye was a career man.

Ken Burns-World War two documentary

The county seat of Rock County, Luverne, Mn. where I was inducted into the army on June 18th, 1945, was chosen as one of the sites from which to tell the story of World War two. Story in next blog post.

Vivian Rye Hegeson's photo allbum

Top-Carol Nelson Ehde-age 6, first grade;Barbara Jo Bakk; Valerie;

Duane Nelson; Beverly Rye

Lorriane Terrio Rye

Vivian Rye Helgeson's photo album

Grandma Olena Thompson-1938
Vivan Rye
Beverly Rye-March 25,1951 let it snow let it snow, let it snow
Norris Rye, Glenn Rye home on furlough-December, 1945

Vivian Rye Helgeson's photo album

Top; Raymond and Mother, Emma, Ray, home on furlough serving in the air force in Anchorage, Alaska during the Korean War.. Ray and a friend drove this 46 Ford down the Alaskan highway breaking down on the way and recused by a large enclosed van that loaded them in the back where they bounced around in the dark for longer than they h0ped for.
2nd photo; Vivian Rye Helgeson and Beverly Rye Nerison in front of Elmer and Opal's Nelson's 54 Pontiac and Grandma Rye's home.
3rd-Emma Thompson Rye-Hills, minnesota.

Vivian Rye Helgeson's photo album

Top picture; the children of Gullik Nelson Rye and Emma Thompson Rye-1989-Location-probably Phoenix for Dan and Brigid's wedding.
left to right;Beverly Rye Nerison;Vivian Rye Helgeson;Glenn Rye;Eldora Rye
bakk; Opal Rye Nelson.
Below-Standing on grain elevator Vivian Rye Helgeson and friend Cyrstal Nelson.
below-right- Emma Thompson Rye-on the Rye farm in the 40's

vivian's photo album

Duane, Roger, Barbara Bakk;Norris,Glenn,Eldora,Opal-Valley Springs school in background;Vivian and 36 Ford.

Vivian's photo album

Courtesy of Vivian Rye Helgeson's photo album

Vivian on Thompson farm;Opal, Elmer and Duane Nelson;Beverly Rye-March, 1945; Vivian at horse coral, Rye farm

Vivian Rye Helgesons photo album

Top left Duane and Elmer Nelson, right;Eldora,Vivian,Norris, Glenn

lower; Keith Anderson,Vivian;Raymond and Duane

To Dan-happy birthday, again

Desiderata
Max Ehrmann, Copyright 1952.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrenderbe on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly;and listen to others,even the dull and the ignorant;they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.If you compare yourself with others,you may become vain and bitter;for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.Exercise caution in your business affairs;for the world is full of trickery.But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;many persons strive for high ideals;and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.Especially, do not feign affection.Neither be cynical about love;for in the face of all aridity and disenchantmentit is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,gracefully surrendering the things of youth.Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.Beyond a wholesome discipline,be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,no less than the trees and the stars;you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you,no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,whatever you conceive Him to be,and whatever your labors and aspirations,in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.
_____

half century of joy and caring-Dan at 50

Dan,Brigid and Summer- Fall of o7.

Dan, a safe port in any storm.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAN

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Dan's blurred high school graduation picture.

Most of these narratives are in recompense for forgetting his birthday in 1965 as we were traveling through Canada.

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Dan is rejocining at Randy's college graudation,The University of Colorado at Boulder. The next year marked Dan's graduation from that institution.
Randy will be joining Dan, Brigid and Summer later this summer up in the lower inland passage.

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Dan, the subject of this story ,is shown in the arms of his Mother, Donna.The picture was developed in December of 1958 so he was under 6 months of age.Pictured with him are Angela, Randy and yours truly and a very special lady friend of my Mother, Caroline Leeland.
She was a friend of my parents when they lived in the Porter, Minnesota area.
I had been teaching at Worthington Senior High school when we decided to move to California. Donna was severa months pregnant with Dan and Caroline offered to go along to California in order to help Donna with the children and to visit some of her relatives. We paid her expenses and a bus ticket back to Minnesota. She was like one of the family, so now, seven years later as we left Southern Minnesota we journeyed North to Fargo where we could touch base one again with our dear friend.

We then went North to Winnipeg, Canada where we picked up the trans Canadian highway and turned West.
Near Calgary we visited a farm where they were actually threshing wheat with a great big old 1903 steam engine tractor where we observed big chains from the from wheels to a drum like device on the tractor.It was then that we discovered that power steering wasn't a new invention on our Chrsyler but was needed in 1903 to steer a monster tractor.
Near Baniff we stayed at a roadside park and the children were most amused when the bears enjoyed Greg's disposable diapers that we had deposited in the trash can.
We took the ferry boat to Victoria, British Columbia where we visited the Boutchard Gardens and where we came upon a bus driver who was the spitting image of our Riverside IBM friend, Owen Craig. At I campground site I bumped into a fellow camper who taught in the Riveside Schools when I did.

We then saw the space needle in Seattle and traveled down the coast to our home in Riverside, California.

We were gone from our home for most of June and most of July.

ON THE 12TH OF JULY WE FORGOT TO CELBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF
DANIEL GENE RYE.

So we won't forget this year and Dan, Brigid and Summer are up in the area we explored so many years ago.They left Victoria, B.C. on their power boat, Sunshine, earlier this month. Summer's friend, Claire, has been with her last week.
On Saturday, July 12th, the picture of the birthday boy and his family will be published on this site.

Stay tuned-news clips at ten

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Donna's friend, Phyllis Pope of Riverside, California painted this picture of the Rye family farm home. She was also Randy's art teacher for a few years with great results.
Angela, Randy, Dan and Greg (6 months old) were treated like royalty by their cousins, the Helgesons, the Nerisons, the Norris Rye's, the Nelsons-by everyone.
My brother in law, Elmer Nelson, a most serious Swedish farmer allowed Dan to cultivate few rows of corn with Dan sitting in his lap on the big John Deere tractor but as soon as a hill or two was plowed up, the party was over

The picture now hangs in the home of Vivian Rye Helgeson in Bemidji, Minnesota and I got to see it again last month.

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Grandma, Emma Rye, greets us at the door of her Hills, Minnesota home.

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Donna surveys the damage as we camped on Grandma Rye's farm with the Helgesons.

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Katy and Cinimin bid me goodbye as we hook up to our 27 foot Terry camper which had this inscription on the back bumper.-THE RAMBLING RYE'S OF RIVERSIDE-
We camp overinght near the river at Needles-it was hot'.We traveled to Tucson where we camped in the parking lot of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church where Donna and I were members when I taught in Roskrudge Junior High School.
We attended sevices at the church and it was the first time that I heard the hymn."The Stranger of Galilee" While we lunched in Flagstaff, a mother with three small children went by chewing them out every way but up and we all chuckled. We found shelter in Sante Fe at the police station parking lot as we endured a great hail storm. When your in a camper you really realize what a hail storm is. We camped in the drive of my college roomate, Robert Exon, who at the time was a pharmacist at the Va Hospital in Witchita, Kansas. Greg took seriously ill and was hospitalised for a day or so. Donna caught his agony early on and we rushed him to the hospital. Our destination was Minnesota where we visited my Mother and staying in her drive as well as with the Helgeson's on the farm.

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In early June, 1965, Cinamin, my donkey, inspects our Chrysler New Yorker before we leave on our summer vacation.

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The year was 1965. The date was February 14th and this was the day that Greg was baptized.

Ramona, Madison and the Rockies

Ramona and Madison in Randy's Rocky Mountain home where the trails are winding to that rainbow in the sky.

"He loveth best
Who loveth well
All things both great and small.

For the dear Lord who madeth us
He made and loveth all."

Dr.Greg-DCM

Caregiver Greg in his Loveland, Colorado office where he adminsters chiropractic and acupuncture solutions to natrual healing.

His sincerity and concern for the patient has endeared him to all of his followers.

When I visit his office and am waiting to go to lunch with him and when the I'm introduced as his father, they have unsolicited words of praise and admiration for Greg ,spoken from the heart.

Of course, his family has know for years of his love and compassion.

"Who gives himself with his gift feeds three

Himself, his hungering neighbor and THEE.

Ramona's new family member, Madison

It's quite obvious that I don't know how to use the computer to turn the picture but Ramona and Madison are great no matter what the angle of the photo.
Madison is of Angolian (Turkey) and Pyrenenes- Spain and France stock and I'm speculating that this breed could have been used by the Basque sheepherders in Spain.
Ramona drove to Oklahoma to pick up Madison and also transported Madison's sibling to a new owner in Denver.
Ramona recently completed her tenure as charge nurse in the emergency ward of the Loveland trauma center that serves Colorado,Nebraska and Wyoming.
She has been appointed as the new director of education at the hospital and will train people for the various tasks that will come their way. I'm sure that workshops and continuing education is under that umbrella.
She is always ready to take off with Madison to Fort Collins and meet up with Ellen and Randy at their home and with the dogs in tow they run and walk the trails and open space adjoining Ellen and Randy's home.
I had better not fail to mention ever faithful Ginger, in the front row.
Several years ago when I visited Ramona in New Baltimore, Michigan. Ginger was fiestier and younger and she was competing for our attention against two of Ramona's other two dogs, Smokie and I forget the other name. So Ginger went over to the open front door and barked as if guests were arriving. Of course, the other two dogs raced to the front door and Ginger slyly returned to command our full attention. Really, it was uncanny.
Ramona's return to Colorado has been marked with joy and happiness for all of us who love and adore her. Sam and Ben hang on her every word.

Springtime in the Rockies-Sam and Ben

Sam,(7) and Ben,(4) enjoy the drinks served on Randy's deck. They are the children of Lisa and Greg Rye.
Later in the day Randy offered the boys the option of taking a nap or flying a model airplane which they all assembled. After some thought the boys opted for the model plane.For four dollars Randy had obtained a plane the would fly three minutes after being charged for 10 seconds by a little battery that was inlcuded. After two or three flights it lodged in a tree but Randy had a long branch trimmer and the right boys were back in the air.
Sam and Ben had recently flown to Seattle and on a float plane to British Columbia and it wasn't long before Sam had two sticks in his hand and was directing the plane into the hanger after landing.
It was hot and humid and I searched out a park bench in the shade to witness the lift offs.

Springtime in the Rockies-Randy

Randy's office is in his home but with his ear phone he rambles around the adjoining city, county and state parks that joins his propery (upwards of 800 acres of open space) and holds conferences with his colleagues who are scattered around the world as they deal with financial goals of the moment.
In the distance are the Rockies and right over the ridge is the Horsetooth Reservoir that seems to go on forever and is usually populated with water craft and fishermen. It takes it name from a rock formtion that resembles a horsetooth and was so named by early settlers as the approached the mountains.
The settlers were used to the mountains in the East and legend has it that as they approached the Rockies they thought that they were only a day or so out- but over three weeks later they still hadn't reached the majestic Rockies.

Randy's colleagues are probable in 8 x 10 cubicles and commute hours to work
From his deck I have seen eagles, deer and human beings on the bike, horse trails,ballfields,ect. that dot the open area.
Randy has a ear of corn dangling on a spring dangling from a willow tree that squirrels junp up and grab and hang unto until the freed a kernel or two for their lunch.Ellen and Randy's two beautiful dogs keep a sharp eye on the squirrels and occassionally chase them away but it is a joy to watch.
Ellen is the public relations director for the Poudre school district(some 25,ooo students) and this week will be attending a conference in D..C.
Ellen is an avid tennis player and recently competed in a state final match where she was the runner up. When she's not playing tennis she's running the trails behind their home.
Ramona brings her dog, Madison, over and the three of them often run together with the dogs.