Greetings

fellow DA's and other former and continuing employees of Raytheon from the bountiful verdant bosom that is Eugene's Willamette Valley.
It seems like we might start getting a few more people posting on here. People seem like they are beginning to get settled on what the next direction their life will take - so maybe they will be feeling like reflecting on whatever that is for the benefit of all of us.

Anyway, I hope you all are having a good summer so far where ever you are.

Here is the Adam update:
After leaving the ice, I traveled around NZ for about 3 or 4 weeks, saw lots of both the north island and the south, if you go back for what ever reason, I reccomend that you spend alot of time on the south island near the cook range. It is definitly the most beautiful area. Huge epic mountains coming down to meet these golden plains. Here is a photo taken maybe 50 miles south of Mt.Cook on a cool misty autumn morning.

After NZ I flew back to Seattle, and eventually down to Eugene, by way of Devin in Portland, where I currently am in week 3 of being a spectacularly earnest organic farmer. If you wish, you may picture me in overalls. Brown. OshKoshB'Gosh. And of course the resulting distinctive tan lines. These earthy traits are a form of street cred in a city braced with dreadlocks and an almost universal aspiration to be a farmer of some kind.
In addition to the many different fruits berries and vegetables we grow, we also raise cattle. Wintergreen Farm is fair sized with about a dozen employees during the summer, all of whom are role models for developing unbelievable levels of pure earnestness in one's self.
Here is photo of a silo at the farm on a recent summer morning.
To Dale- My robot brother, good luck in Africa, may you go as long as possible avoiding dysentery, and when you do get it, may it be spectacular.
To Katie- Have fun with SalPal next year. Please communicate gossip to Erin or to me directly. Jabs will be back I hear, in her same position. I will be volunteering at the local fire dept. this year, so if I come back in following years, I will most definitely do it as a firefighter as the perks seemed endless.

Best Wishes,
Adam Lucke