Janet Finley

Spouse:  Rocky Sinclair

Kids:

     Jill Sinclair married to Tim Meier
     Karen Sinclair married to Jon Hansen

Rocky retired in May 2007 and since I was already “retired”, we bought a new motor home to get out of the Arizona summer heat.  We spent the 2008 summer traveling in the Pacific Northwest letting Rocky relax and get used to having time off.  Last summer we went east, in spite of the gas prices, and spent time in the upper Midwest and New England.  We returned in October when our daughters said it had cooled off.  I think they lied somewhat.

Our older daughter, Jill was married in December 2006.  Fortunately, Tim has a good job with Intel in Chandler, Arizona as Jill is now an out of work architect.  Her chance of getting a job in residential design in the Phoenix area is between zero and less than that at the moment so she is landscaping their new yard and adapting for the future.  They are also trying to adopt if anyone knows of a baby needing a good home.

Karen and Jon, our younger daughter, still both have jobs – but, no grandchildren there yet either.

We will be in Moscow for the reunion in June and have a family reunion planned for McCall in mid-July.  Otherwise, our plans are to spend the summer wherever the whim takes us.

Hi!

Six years ago, we built a house in a valley north of Phoenix, giving me an opportunity to stop working and spend 3 years transforming raw desert into something livable, both for us and the animals native to the place.  Since then, gifts of a digital camera and genealogy software have given me 2 new hobbies, well -1 hobby and 1 full-time addiction.  Both give us good reasons to travel, which we do whenever possible.  I need to check out Dodie’s book as both Rocky and I have significant Scots ancestry and Scotland is on our list of places to visit.

Rocky works for Honeywell and after numerous corporate mergers and acquisitions along with building modifications, he now finds his desk is just feet away from where it was when he started working for Sperry in 1968.  He is planning his retirement which is still 3 to 5 years away.  We are looking forward to escaping the summer heat by traveling a few months each summer and then enjoying our desert home during the winter.

Both of our daughters live in Gilbert, Arizona, on the other side of Phoenix and an hour’s drive from us.  Jill is a designer for a Scottsdale architecture firm that does residential plans and has completed part of the requirements for her license.  She loves her job, a good thing, as she often puts in 55+ hours a week trying to keep up with Phoenix’s incessant demand for new housing. Karen teaches general music and band at an elementary school in Mesa.  She and Jon, an engineer at Intel, were married in June 2002.