The Editor at Work

This sketch of my father was made sometime in the early 1960s, I believe, as he worked at the newspaper. I don't know the artist, though I think it would have been done by the editorial cartoonist at the Stockton Record who, at the time, would have been a fellow named Bert Whitman.

The sketch had been tucked away in a filing cabinet among the many football programs, baseball scorebooks and other papers that my dad left behind. Now, it's been matted and framed and it hangs on the wall in my office.

Fenced in

Our back fence had been in horrible shape for several years. During that time, we had tried to contact our neighbor several times to see about replacing it. No response. But then we learned, through a mutual neighbor, that he had decided to redo his backyard, deck and fence.

The new fence was completed this week, and oh, what a fence it is.

I promised to post a photo, so here we go.