SEASON.S GREETING 2013

Best wishes to everyone for a wonderful holiday season. How fortunate that we can all celebrate according to our own concious. I celebrate the sostice but also enjoy the Christian rituals. For older people the season represent traditions. We can remember the season as children with all the excitment. For some of us, the mythology of the season is for children! Regardless of belief, we can all share the love of children. Merry Christmas, Happy Chunnuka, Sunny Solstice, Happy New Year. Love, Peace, Goodwill. What a beautiful theme. Hard to imagine anyone would want to argue over how best to celebrat the holiday

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Our honary grandson living in Montana is a senior on his football team. We made a trip to Missoula and Kalispel to watch him play. Very exciting. Also met his girl friend, a real beauty queen. We are reminded that we only have one senior high school year in life. We must make the most of it and enjoy all that it has to offer.

IDAHO WRITER LEAGUE

Saturday September 21, 2013 the Idaho Writer League held the awards banquet in Sandpoint. I was thrilled to be awarded first place for the humor story catsgory. My story was a political satire.

BONNER COUNTY FAIR

We were involved with the 2013 fair. I spent time at the Idaho Writers botth supporting the writer's club. I was honored to be asked to judge the beer making competition. As the Counties most experienced beer drinker, it is nice to be recognized. Anita and I attended the 4H animal aution and purchased a big. 

JULY 4 PARADE SANDPOINT 2013

Anita and I rose our 4 cycle tandem in the parade as part of the Bicycle Club.
We carried the club banner and rode at the speed of marchers as other club members circled us to provide an impressive animation. Pictures of us were on face book.

END GAME

I completed a class in theatre arts at North Idaho College. For the last class, my group presented part of Beckett's play "END GAME".  I played the leading role of the character Ham.( An old man in a wheelchair rambeling on and not making any sense).  My wife Anita is my primary fan and attends all my performances.  she said I did a great job with the part.

PHOTO SLIDES

I started taking photo slides when I bought my first 35mm camera in 1964. I continued until my first digital camera in 2005. I collected 6400 slides. My wife and I took on a project of viewing all 6400 slides. It took about a month. It was like a religious meditation reliving our life. It made us appreciate all the wonderful adventure and all the great people who have played a role. We have a lot to be grateful for. We plan to repeat this ritual every year. We will start in January 2014!!

NEW FOUR WHEEL CYCLE

April 1, we made the maiden voyage of our new cycle!! Due to age and health we are no longer confident on our Santana Tandem. We had been riding it for 30 years but it was time for the change. We feel like children on a triycle but we keep on pedling.

NIGHT TO REMEMBER

As a theatre class project, I was required to write a short play. The play was "A Night To Remember".It involves two characters.  March 20, 2013, my wife Anita and I read it at our open mike group called 5 Minutes of Fame.We got a lot of positive feed back.

WEIRDOS OF SANDPOINT

Sunday Feb. 3, 2013, I gave a talk on groups who have been pursecuted for thinking outside the box. The talk was motivated by our local right wing radio commentator who accussed people who worship at the Gardenia Center as being weirdos.  Of course he was refering to me. Proud to be a WEIRDO!

THEATRE CLASS NIC

This semester, I am taking a class at North Idaho College on Theatre. I write plays and maybe the class will inspire me to get the plays staged. I need actors who can volunteer to play the parts. I am enjoying the class and like being part of the college scene.

THE LOGGER

Words to a favorite song, "I see that you are a logger and just a common bum-------" I log fire wood for a hobby and sing the song as I work. When we had our new home in Idaho built my wife insisted on a fire place. We installed a franklin style which can burn a lot of wood. I buy starter to get it going and energy logs that keep it going but the aroma and beautiful blaze comes from the wood. My home has a modern natural gas furnace but the fire complements the music and fine wine. I use a hand saw for excercise plus I am afraid of chain saws. My logging truck is a waggon I pull.  My logging uniform consists of clothing not good enough to give to the good will. Many people in town have expressed concern for this poor deperate old man who scronges for wood. Many have offered to help. One man suggested he could help me and with his chain saw and pick up truck we could gather more wood in an hour then I get in a month.  My answer was that I would lose a month of excercise. Others have offered me finacial help; I assume to supplement my wine cellar.. I make it clear that my wine collection is well stocked with the finest wine so no need for concern. Guess the purpose of this post is to make it clear that I am a logger, not just a common bum but I do appreciate people caring about me.  Yes, it is true that I often take a free meal at the Catholic Church on Friday and my Gardenia Center on Wednesday but that is for social contact. I am feeding my soul. 

PASSING SHIPS

My wife and I took the Coral Princess Cruise Ship west to East through the Panama Canel and returned on the Celebrity Infinity Cruise Ship. I wrote an article for the Idaho Writer State Contest comparing the two ships.. The article did not do wll in the competition but many have expressed interest.  The article is now available.

4 WHEEL TANDEM

We travelled to Darby Montana to test ride the Light Foot 4 wheel tandems. Our decision is still pending but we look forward to a new adventure in life. Anyone with experience with these vehicles is encouraged to provide feed back

TANDEM RALLY WITH SANTANA

We recently returned from a tandem rally on the Columbia Gorge National Recreational Area with the Santana Cycle Tours. Due to health and age etc. we can no longer ride our bike but we had a great time keeping up with our Jeep!
We are looking for info on four wheel tandems!! So if you have info to share please contact us.

PLAY A ROLE

Pine Productions is planning on staging the play FRANKIES THURSDAY NIGHT.  We are looking for actors to play the parts. If interested, please contact Harvey Pine

HOME SAFE

We are home after a three month bucket list trip taking the train to L.A. After a month we took the ship to FLORIDA and a month visiting. We then took the ship to Seattle and train back home. We saw a lot of special people and a number of national parks

WORKING ON BUCKET LIST TRIP CALIFORNIA TO FLORIDA

IDAHO WRITER'S CONTEST 2011

I won the second place award for short humor,  in the theme (eyes of the beholder) contest and third place in creative non fiction for assigned title "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished".  The non fiction story relates to observations of ducks on the pond near my home.

NORWAY DVD

Pine Productions latest creativity is a DVD of our travel to Norway June 2010.
We took the train from Oslo to Burgan and then the Ferry Ship to the top of Norway which included a bus tour to the Russian border. I can duplicate my DVDs so they are available. Making travel DVDs seems to be my latest activity so maybe I will give Rick Stevens some competion!