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August 15, 2005
Borah High School 20-Year Reunion
I just got back, had a blast. It was so good to re-connect with so many people: Karma, Cindy, Nancy Jo, Chrissy, Jim, Jeffrey, Lisa, Lisa, Al, Michelle, John, Brian, Harris, Bill, Denice, Karen, Joan, Valerie, Judene... I wanted to post about it, but I'm still digesting and cogitating.
I am still astonished that Lisa (Pilcher) Castle now has an absolutely gorgeous daughter who is older than she and I were when we met. Lisa and I were best friends in sixth and seventh grade. How can she have a child that age? She doesn't look old enough to have a fourteen year-old. (And I know I'm not old enough to have a fourteen year-old.)
I have one other story from the reunion because it shows how little things have changed in twenty years. When I was in high school, Judene Smith and I were frequently mistaken for each other. We were roughly the same height, wore glasses, and had similar hairstyles for our light brown hair. At the party Friday night, Judene walked in and Valerie saw her and yelled, "Sally!" While I walked up to Michelle who said, "Judene!"
Can I just say that Judene is now a blonde, and I am now a redhead, and though we both now wear contacts and keep our hair long, we don't really look that much alike. It was so funny, because we'd both forgotten that people ever confused us. At the picnic yesterday, we took a picture of several people, including, as Michelle said, "Judene and the other Judene." Unfortunately, It wasn't taken with my camera, so for a side-by-side comparison, we have to rely on separate photographs.
I am on the far left in the picture above. (The rest of the subjects are Nancy, Cindy, Karma, Troy and Jim. May I add that NONE of us look much like we did in high school. Especially Jim.)
This is Judene with her brand new husband Harris (congratulations!), who also went to school with us:
I don't think we look that much alike, but you can be the judge.
And in the interest of sharing photographs from the weekend, a few from the drive back.
The smoke over the highway and a scary sign (reminds me why I don't want to live in central Idaho).
Yep, the pinky-brown clouds above the patch of blue (dimly seen through the bug-spattered windshield--which would be a great name for a folk/country band) are from some fire or other. Interestingly, the drive down was smoky from Moscow to New Meadows, while the drive back was really only bad around Riggins. It's smoky here again today, though it wasn't too bad last night when we got home.
About the sign. I have enlarged it in this photo and bumped the contrast (changing it to black and white seems to help as well) so you can hopefully read what it says.
Yes. That's right. The sign reads, "Yahweh's 666 Warning Assembly." This group is maintaining two sections of Highway 95 south of Riggins. I just googled them and they're not so organized that they have a website. Probably think the internet is the tool of the devil...
And speaking of the devil, my lovely husband, who clearly wanted desperately to be photographed while driving. (He's not actually jaundiced. The yellow tinge is because I couldn't get the white balance to work properly.)
And one final pic, a self-portrait taken while waiting for a pilot car yesterday evening just south of Winchester. This is why I love the Palouse.
Posted by sally at August 15, 2005 10:03 AM
Comments
Sally!
---A couple things prompted me to write you!
My husband and I -and son and daughter, just got back from a Yellowstone road trip and fell upon the Yaweh 666 signs--and maybe I was overtired--but they made me crazy, even a little freaked and frightened---enough to Google them as well.
then there was the self portrait of you in the rear view mirror. I'd rather have a root canal than have my picture taken---and the rear view mirror trick has always been my claim to fame!
---And then there was the writer piece.
When the chicklets started the predictable meltdown, we started to write, "Yellowstone, the Musical"---at first as a goofy diversion --and then it began to flesh itself out in an amazing way....
HA!
Posted by: Jane Horowitz at September 7, 2005 05:57 PM
HEY! Funny thing...i googled my name to do some silly thing for a chain e-mail and low and behold someone who has the same name as me!! Holy cow! I thought no one else had it! Anyway...tell the Judene that I don't know that I think she has a cool name for me! teehee....have a good day!
Posted by: Judene at December 14, 2005 11:57 PM
Yes we clean up various sections of hwy 95 and we also have a large sign at our property mile marker 183.5 hwy 95 where we distribute information regarding what we are about.
Michael
Posted by: Michael O'Leary at December 16, 2005 09:46 AM
I was just looking for people maybe knowing about the 20th reunion and i guess I missed it! I really wanted to go and see how everyone is doing! Looks like you all has fun! Take care, travis Jones
Posted by: Travis Jones at December 22, 2005 05:38 PM
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