End of Several Years Report 2009 continued

It’s been about 3 years since Ken’s side business of Isaacson Engineering moved out of the back room of our home to an office in the St. Johns Plaza and a few months later Ken officially retired as an engineer for Salt River Project at the Coronado Generating Station and went to work for himself fulltime. He hasn’t exactly enjoyed being responsible for the livelihoods of 8 other families but so far Isaacson Engineering is busy and one of their biggest clients is Salt River Project. What he really misses are those 6 weeks of paid vacation that he took for granted. I don’t miss them all that much because it seemed like he spent a lot of those days working at Isaacson Engineering. I did manage to make him leave for a week in the fall of ’07 for a week in Boston with friends and a week last summer to Arkansas to visit Abram & his family. He is still busy with the little ranching and has been disappointed in the past couple of years that a late frost took the apples. This Father is hoping that he has one last 50 mile hike in him (2 years ago he trekked with Hannah). He went with the other 5 boys & this summer it’s Sam’s turn. It is the plan that all the Isaacson men (including Cameron & Tyler) join in for the adventure This Mother’s only instruction to her sons is, “Bring him back alive!”