Dale Blank

Just seems like yesterday we were graduating! Have enjoyed conversing with many classmates lately on Facebook.
Receive a Associates degree in Residential Design in 1991. Worked for an Architect for a couple of years and 8 for a local lumberyard. Met many of the people I still work for there with designs!
Built a new house in 1999 with friends and family.
Met my wife Fall of 2000 and we were married in Fall of 2002. (she brings out the best and worst in me!!!)
Had our daughter Julia September of 2003. Been a roller coaster ride ever since... Nicholas in Fall of 2005 and Braedon Novenber (Thanksgiving baby) 2007.
Sold our house Summer of 2005 in 34 days and moved out to live two months in our camper on our land, luckily I had built my office on the same property the year before so we had running water! Moved into an apartment for 7 months and moved into the new place June of 2007.
Work has been challenging with the economy down turn last Fall in the building industry, but some work keep filtering in. Have had to lay my one employee off time to time the Winter and Spring.
Last July we added Dakota, a male Black Lab. Our first dog. He like to chew, but has gotten much better the last few months. Very good with the kids and gets me up at 4:45 am every morning like clockwork!
Still like to snowmobile when I have time and the weather cooperates (not -40F) and have been selling snowmobile parts in the Winter on Ebay and will do even more this upcoming Winter by adding a website.
Not much time for much else but like to spend time with the family camping in the Summer, cooking on the grill, beach time, taking my kids snowmobiling around the yard with the Ski-doo Mini-Z kids model I bought for them this Winter; we must have went around our field a thousand times!
Before I know it they will be out of school like some of the other classmates kids I know and I will really feel old!

Still fondly remember Sam Tejan in Auto class scratching his head in dis-belief after hearing Christian Haling [or Worm] (class of 1990), tell how he would take his front wheel drive Plymouth Champ and pull the parking brake while driving it down the road to cause it to spin around and aound (They only put the parking brake on one wheel to save costs). Sam responded, "why in the hell would you pull the parking brake while going down the road?" Christian's reponse ," well, just had to see what it would do"! He had his feet kicked up on the seat in front of him. We got away with so much in that class and still learned a lot!

I burnt my eyebrows when trying to start a 350 chevy in Auto while deciding to look over the carb while turning over and it back fired. Not smart... burnt hair really smells bad!

In German class we were learning new words and put together; Stricheln de Schlaunker (stroke the snake), Pete Shopheister (class of 1993) and I said that for weeks joking around.