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Reggie and Val floating

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:32:00 MDT

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Val and Reggie Eitzen practice the fine art of floating.

Practice, practice, practice

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:28:29 MDT

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No one worked harder at perfecting their floating style than these two.

Norm fishing

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:25:19 MDT

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Norm Gissel, my best friend, showing me the fine art of fishing off a beach.

Floating on the river

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:18:08 MDT

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Jim and Val togehter again floating on the river.

The fine art of filleting a fish

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:14:57 MDT

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Jim teaching Jonathon the fine art of filleting a fish.

Fishing on the river

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:12:03 MDT

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Jim fishing. Jim was always fishing. Jim loved to fish.

Float slave

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:08:47 MDT

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Val and Diana like to think that they invented the art of floating. Keys include having a boat slave (Jonathon) to fetch your drinks and another boat slave to haul you in when you have to use the head.

Columbia River sculpture

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:05:48 MDT

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How many hundreds of years? How many stories? Impossible to know.

Diana on her perch

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:03:18 MDT

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This was Diana's perch.

Jonathon

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 22:00:44 MDT

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Jonathon grew up with us. He could find more things to do than any ten other people.

On her perch

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:58:53 MDT

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Val's last time on her perch.

Router Bay

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:55:52 MDT

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This was a great a place to hide when the water got big. We loved sitting on the beach at night looking out over a fire and listening to the coyotes singing each to each

Tricked out

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:53:12 MDT

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I kept adding stuff to the point where Val said that one more thing would sink her. I loved messing around with boats.

Saying goodby

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:50:08 MDT

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This was our last time there. We hauled it our and parked it and never saw it again. So sad.

Moored

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:46:49 MDT

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At the Kettle Falls marina. Spent a lot of time just sitting on the boat without even going out on the water. The marina was its own community. I miss it terribly.

A storm is coming

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:44:17 MDT

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The incredible colors of a changing sky

Rainbow at Priest Lake

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:42:04 MDT

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Our last time a Priest Lake

High skies

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:38:26 MDT

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There was something about the skies on the river. They were huge.

At the marina

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:34:17 MDT

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We kept the Johnfish at the Kettle Falls marina for 10 years. This was the last picture of it before we took it out for good.

Happiness

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:28:07 MDT

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This was our hiddy hole - the place where we could retreat and recharge.

Norm and Diana on the river

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:25:47 MDT

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Our best friends (Norm and Diana Gissel) with us in our favorite place

Looking back on Router

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:23:38 MDT

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Jim and Val and over their shoulder is Router Bay.

Val in her spot

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:21:18 MDT

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This was Val's perch. She would park herself here, read a little and sleep a lot.

Patches' tree

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:17:48 MDT

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We spent a many a night camping on this beach. This is where our little dog Patches would cash bones and this is where his ashes were spread.

The sky and the river

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:15:16 MDT

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We will always remember ths sky and the water and the smell of the air.

River queen

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:11:49 MDT

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Val on the river

Water ballet

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:07:45 MDT

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Jim working on his water ballet moves with his partner, Greg Eitzen.

Oh Jim you know everything

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:04:58 MDT

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Reggie, a walleye, and me. There was no one who enjoyed catching fish more than Reggie and for awhile I had her convinced that I was the world's authority on walleye fishing.

Water and sand

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:59:02 MDT

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The incredible colors of the Columbia River

Water and sky

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:52:50 MDT

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Looking down the Columbia

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:52:48 MDT

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High skies

jimandval_photos — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:52:45 MDT

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