Currently caregiving for my 93 yr old dad

I am living in my dad's house on Loomis Lake near Klipsan Beach on the Long Beach peninsula, WA (about 2o mi N of Astoria, OR). My dad, Walt, is living at Golden Sands Assisted living facility at Klipsan Beach. He had a major stroke in Oct 2000, shortly before my mom, Theon, passed away in November. I spend a majority of my time at the ocean, taking him places and running errands plus managing his affairs. I have my mountain bike and a couple of kayaks for recreation. Living at the ocean requires lots of yard work as lawns a large and everyone is expected to keep them up. I am maintaing the greenhouse and garden and work hard keeping the birdfeeder filled and protected from the bears and squirrels.

Theon's Prize Steelhead

My parents were committed fishermen and my mom won the NW Steelheaders trophy for the largest Steelhead caught during a derby on the Deschutes River in Oregon. Mom had congestive heart failure for about 5 years and maintained her zest for life nearly to the end. She encouraged us to play a lot of Pinochle games over a lot of years.

Bob at 59

Robert H. (Bob) Cline was born in Portland, OR and attended Lincoln and Wilson High Schools in Portland. After attending Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA for three years, he went to Columbia University in New York city for two years to graduate with a Bachelors degree in mech. engineering plus a BA from Whitman in math-physics and an MS from UW. He worked for 31 years with Boeing software in Seattle, primarily on the AWACS radar surveillance airplane. After an early retirement in 1995, he spent four years part time as a contract engineer on the AWACS project. Bob married Mary Louise Kemp in 1966 and raised two children, Erica and Michael until Mary unexpectedly passed away in 1994. Erica is a student at UW nearly ready to get her Phd in Forest Ecology and Michael graduated from WSU and currently is starting a business in my Seattle home. See www.fuzzypixels.com