Dad/Lamar has been keeping a journal for many, many years. Before a typed up version, he had lots of little books with details and information. Just taking a peek at some of the pages gives a snapshot of that time frame. Below, are three pages from Aug/Sept 1985 (these were scanned in after an email discussion about Chris's hiking accident - blog post about that still to come). This would have been right before Chris's 19th birthday. Scott (22), Wendy (17), Jen (15) Shane (9) and Derek (3).
There is quite a bit of talk about Chris's injury and follow-up care (which was the reason these pages were looked up and scanned in, we need the few days before though, the accident was August 21), but also fishing, camping (ward campout), tennis, soccer, work, church. It's always fun to see what people include in their notes/journals (remember Shane's childhood journal, where he concluded his entries with "and now I'm going to bed.") A journal, things that may or may not be written for others to see, but for a personal record. One sentence that made me laugh (9/2 Labor Day) "The females of the family spent a good deal of money at stores -- using up the VISA". Dad did not record the amount spent ... although he did record the price of a dozen worms for fishing in an earlier entry and the cost of a new Whirlpool freezer in a later note.
