Our Notebook

Category: Friends (Page 2 of 3)

Autumn

People ask me what we do now that we’re retired. The answer is: a lot, and just what we want to do.

This fall we spent lots of time on Apple’s Facetime watching Felicity grow up in South Africa, took Emily on a trip to visit Paula and her family in Cheyenne, visited with Cousin Sue (and posed in front of a legal Colorado marijuana store…but no, we didn’t buy anything or inhale!), went hiking, visited Cathy and Greg in Oregon and saw several friends along the way.

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RIP, Hollis

Our former neighbor, Hollis Cameron, died on New Years’ Day. Hollis worked for Mountain Bell, the phone company (a/k/a US West, Qwest, Century Link). Rifle was the last Mountain Bell exchange in Colorado to convert from operators to dial telephones, and they didn’t do it until the mid 1960’s. She was an operator, and worked the last shift in Rifle before they cut over to dial telephones, so it is quite likely that she was the last person to utter “Number please” in Colorado.

Our kids will remember that Dan and Hollis were the perfect neighbors – never nosy, but always watching. If there was anything out of the ordinary, they’d report it. And when I wanted to play an old LP record of music I brought back from Colombia, they were the only people on the block who still had a functioning turntable.