A New Year's Toast
New Year's 2005

Best New Year's Wishes from Port Orford, Oregon


A crab boat heads out during a winter sunrise -
Dungeness Crab is Oregon's most commercially important catch.
 ‘A meal the gods intended only for the pure in palate’ -- James Beard

The house

Summer view from the deck

Summer moonrise
 

Fall sunset - sun is actually far to the right (we are looking south) - it colors the entire skyline.
The San Francisco fishing fleet invasion of Port Orford waters - great salmon harvest in 2004.


When someone from NBC says I should move to New York and work full time, I send the above photos....


Skiing Mt Bachelor - March 2004

Dutch Henry Winery
Napa Valley - April 2004

Ah - the girl I married - 

Yeah, that's her....
A new windsock every year - the winter storms normally do not start until Thanksgiving, but started in October of 2004.

Emily building a bamboo fence
Rick continued his work with the NBC family of networks, including a trip to Burbank to appear on CNBC's Dennis Miller show.
Rick was a frequent commentator on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" about the Abu Ghurayb prisoner mistreatment issue. 
On MSNBC, discussing Saddam's court appearance with fellow NBC analyst and former boss General Norman Schwarzkopf.
Speaking at a Middle East seminar in Boca Raton, Florida - with fellow NBC analysts Colonel Jack Jacobs and Dr Walid Phares.


Rick's grandsons - 
Dominic, age 4 years
Dante, age 7 months

"Hey Colonel, do you know Spiderman?"

Since Rick has an aversion to "Grandpa," Dominic calls him "the colonel."  Although Dominic is wearing his Pittsburgh Steeler football stuff, we are also now Boston Redsox baseball fans since cousin Terry beat "the curse of the bambino."
Rick's mother Jeanne visiting - she was "stranded" here when Hurricane Frances hit her home in Florida.
Rick with guests Patti Domm and Bob Windrem.  Patti is the Business News editor for CNBC (she hired Rick in 2003); Bob is an investigative producer for NBC Nightly News.



President of the Port Orford Rotary Club
Emily as "June Cleaver" 
at the 50's theme Rotary dinner
A Monterey getaway over Christmas


December 31, 2004 - Burning the mortgage
 


The Margarita Deck
 


The new side deck - for the WAG (see below)
(Rick calls this the "Guy Deck")

More photos
Denver:  With Sandy Edens and Jenise Flowers at the 33-year reunion of Rick's and Sandy's Vietnamese language class - Rick and Sandy were roommates at the school in El Paso.  For those not aware, "33" is the national beer of Vietnam.
More photos
Local jeweler Milt "Wizard" Finch at his biker wedding - Emily added her Honda scooter to the line of Harleys....
More Vietnamese language class reunion - a field trip to the continental divide west of Denver. 
Come Visit - or Drop a Line
Rick and Emily Francona
P.O. Box 1421 - Port Orford, Oregon 97465
rick@francona.net  /  emily@francona.net