Hi dad.

I continue to pray for you and solicit prayers from my praying friends (who remind me daily that they are indeed praying for you). Yesterday I listed my top ten fondest memories with you dad. Today I will list my top ten weird, wacky, and bizarre memories #10 Every family has pets. Pets can be a little messy. Pets can be a little mean at times. like Augulita. In Lakeside where we lived from 63 to 69, my father had a pet redtail hawk named Augulita. It lived in the house with us, crapped all over everything, attacked us in our sleep, and in general made us feel like we were living parallel lives with the Addams Family. #9 You and I sailed from SD to Oceanside on Thorobred, my first major voyage. We got becalmed and spent 12 nighttime hours near the Carlsbad smokestack. #8 In Lakeside, releasing goatly into the wild seemed to be the right thing to do. You and I loaded the goat into a car, (I think the Hudson), drove into the hills and tried to shoo him away. He hung on to us like a wet blanket. You threw a stone at him. The moment you released the stone, I noticed the glass gallon water jug that was needed to feed the radiator, in direct line with your throw. Bulls-eye!!! Goatly, was a goat given to us. He chewed grape vines down to stubs, was unfriendly, and in general was of no tangible benefit to us. After the failed attempt at releasing him in the wild, we brought him back to live out his days with us. #7 A few years ago, I called you to invite you to go on a hike with me and Buckeye. Well, we wandered off the Mission Gorge trail to forge our own. Buckeye met a rattlesnake

#6 I woke up one morning to go to school in Lakeside. You were still up from coming home from work and asked me to listen to something. You

then played Light My Fire. I heard it several months before anyone else ever heard of the Doors. My dad was a dope smoking hippie (behind our backs). He got off of work at around 2:00AM and often times had his hippie friends hang with him drinking his homebrew until the wee hours of the morning. . The Doors first album was released but unnoticed by the general public but was noticed by his friends. I was greatly impressed with the sound of it and played it for my friends months before its notice by the general public. Light My Fire became the song of the year in 67 #5 Didnt we have an encounter with a submarine???

My dad went sailing with a boat load of family members and relatives. His boats never had motors on them. We got becalmed and drifted into a docked submarine at Pt. Loma. Naval personel were screaming at us to stay clear but we had no options but to let the current take us into one. The sub was ajacent to a large naval ship. A sailor on the ship helped secure the situation by putting his hand on the top of our mast. #4 It is not unusual for a parent to show up at school to take his kid out of class for an emergence, but to chase down and capture a pig in the golf course???? In Lakeside, we raised hogs for slaughter and eating. A young pig got away and ended up on the Lakeside Golf Course . It was drizzling making it like trying to catch a greased pig. #3 How many times did you call me asking for help. Mike, my boat is adrift??? My dad was an extremely careless sailor when it came to anchoring. Over the course of several years, he received numerous calls from fellow boaters, Harbor Police, and strangers advising him that his boat was adrift.

#2 Etched in my brain Many of my friends brew their own beer. Greg, the guitarist that you like does. I ask them all the same question, Do your bottles explode? Nightmare!!!! His homebrew bottles sometimes exploded. Sounded like a bomb going off . We were oftentimes given the task of fetching and opening his bottles for him. Etched in my brain. #1 When I became a believer in Jesus, my first major decision was to leave my crashpad and move in with you. During that time you were greatly concerned about union enemies. One night, I woke you up to say that there was a person lurking about in the back yard. You grabbed a rifle and we both searched out the intruder in our underwear but found no one. I slept with you that night. The next day, brother Steve who was completely unconverted and drug crazed at the time called me on the phone to tell me that you and I almost ran him over as he was hiding in a bush in the back yard.