Nancy Ann (McFarland) Barnhart
   Phone:
619-993-3321 (Verizon cell phone)

http://www.davidshome.com/
Website pictures are awesome!!   Go take a look at our website of travel pictures to see 'some' of the places we've been and a small fraction of the pictures we have taken in our travels. David tries to keep this website current - some years are easier than others to do that (grin).  He has been working lately on adding some of our crafts to the mix.

Occupation: Retired full time RV'ers, retired legal secretary (helped fund our retirement), before that, I owned a drapery workroom and sewed for 4 or 5 decorators and also did some contract sewing (wallets, pillows, wind surfing harnesses, rv sunscreens, etc.)
Spouse: David King Barnhart
Children:3 boys - one relinquished to adoption in 1965 (finally found/met and hugged him in 1989 when he was 24 yrs old), 2 adopted boys (after marriage in 1967) born 1971 and 1973… found their birth families also in 1989-90.
Home: Before 2000 - I visited my sister in San Diego, CA in 1964, got a job at San Diego Trust & Savings Bank in their Data Processing Center where David was the graveyard supervisor - we worked together several years and were married in Dec. 1967.  We lived in two homes in Lemon Grove, CA from 1967 to 2001.

Since 2000 - the whole USA (haha)  David and I are full time rv'ers in our retirement   We travel in the summers and winter on our (deeded) rv size lot in a development between Congress & Wickenburg, Arizona (about 2,800 ft elevation northwest of Phoenix)

After graduation, I went to college (for a few months) in Fort Collins, Colorado, got engaged, folks forced an end to that, came back to Seattle area and then moved to San Diego, CA.  Went to night school for data processing and met my husband at my first job using the new skills.  We married and tried for a family, went through extensive fertility studies and surgery to no avail, and then adopted two boys as infants in '71 and '73.  A blue eyed blond and a very tall dark skinned Mexican with brown eyes - they were and still are as different as their outer appearances!  Both truly a joy to raise and watch grow up into solid American contributing adults.  The eldest, Craig, is married and living outside Austin, TX.  The youngest, Lance, is getting married February 2012 to a mom with 3 kids in San Diego, CA. 

We did a lot of camping on the weekends and for our vacations in our cab-over camper, pulling either the dunebuggy or our dirt bikes.  We enjoyed a close relationship with David's parents and his siblings along with oodles of grandkids in the mix.  We were also very active in a full-gospel non-denominational church for many years, making a lot of missionary type trips down into Baja, Mexico as time allowed.  After the boys left home, we raised 10 dogs for Canine Companions for Independence (as service dogs for the physically challenged) - THAT was fun!  9 golden retrievers and 1 black labrador - 2 at a time until they were 1-1/2 yrs old.  None of them made it to graduation with a new challenged owner, but all found good homes and became useful in many other ways.  Boeing went to a foster home for down syndrom girls. Neumann went to a family with 14 kids, 11 of which were physically challenged in one way or another - to introduce them to a well behaved big dog - perhaps a service dog was in their future?

We bought our first 5th wheel several years before David retired (so we could pay it off before we hit the road) in 2001.  We sold our home of 35 years and all the contents and moved into our 5th wheel for 9 mos. until April of 2001 when Tax Season was over and David was done working.  Then, the fun really began! lol  The last 12 years we have traveled to and through all of the lower 48 states as well as many of the Canadian Provinces, the Yukon, and even up to Alaska (to visit my best friend Linda Green Conover).  We are still enjoying this nomadic lifestyle and the many other rv'ers we meet in our travels. 

Couple things we've learned - The Niagara river flowing over Niagara falls, flows NORTH into Canada, not south.  There is an area in the Great Smoky Mountains where things I grew up with on M.I. also grow (what a surprise to see!) - trilliums, hazelnut trees, dogwood trees, azaleas, rhododendrums, and ferns.  One more - if you are trying to find something in the rig, look for something else and what you originally sought will be found as well - haha.

Nancy - finishing her UTAH Quilt - with the colors of their red cliffs and pine trees.

Memories  (These are NOT in any particular order)

1) Being business manager of the drill team (winning out over a "cheerleader"!)

2) Throwing rocks in gym and accidentally hitting Ms. Bartleson (and having to write a paper re same).
2a) remember the romance between Ms. Bartleson (girls gym class) and Mr. Fiedler (the band teacher)?

3) The old manual typewriters we used in typing class under Ms. Clough's tutilage.
3a) The five Nancy's in Shorthand class.

4) Walking out on the floating bridge to watch the gold cup races, sitting on the railing until our feet swelled to twice their size, and having to pee really really bad! and no place to do so.

5) Living in 12 different homes that my dad built and all the apts, trailers, etc. in between, BUT always being able to have my room painted PINK!

6) Making circle skirts in girl scouts and screen printing our names around the bottom of them. (Can you imagine wearing them now? lol)

7) Wool skirts, sweaters and fuzzy bobby socks that matched, and always worn with our saddle shoes.

8) Not being able to wear sandals to school, slacks (only under our skirts to school when it was snowing), and boys having to wear belts with their slacks - then the guys cut their belt loops off and then had to wear suspenders (days of the low slung hip huggers)

9) Beatnik parties where we'd borrow dad's big white shirts over black tights and carrying long cigarette holders.

10) Riding Linda Stevenson's horses with Linda Green.

11) Listening to the frogs each night and feeding the racoons (with their babies) in our last house up by Ellis Pond.

12) Dance lessons in the rec hall of Shorewood apts and dancing with Jay Watson! Oh that was fun! He was such a good dancer! Where are you now Jay??

13) Walking down to the grocery store in upper Shorewood and buying Pez candy for our holders.

14) Riding our bikes down to the Five and Dime and being pulled back up the hill by dad in his truck, rope tied on to bumper and other end wrapped around our handlebars!

15) Blackberry picking, freezing and making coblers.

16) Swim team tryouts, meets and practices down at the Beach Club on the south end of the Island. (Never did win anything but sure got butterflies before meets! lol)

17) Walking the banks of the lake near Luther Burbank School, necking in the woods, fishing for bass with bow and arrow with Lin Smith, as well as fishing for squaw fish off Hostevedt's dock (cathing them, then leaving them on the hook and throwing them out again to catch seagulls).

18) Jumping pogo sticks at Linda's home on the north end of the Island and being sooo impressed with Linda counting into the hundreds without falling off! lol

19) Sleep overs at Linda's house and the yummy breakfasts they'd always have! The fun of trying to figure out which of her twin brothers was who, Bob or Jim ??? As I remember, one liked to wear brown, and another had a cowlick on the back of his neck - but today I don't remember which was which - haha.

20) Playing the glockenspiel in band and not wanting to play too loud for fear I'd hit a wrong note while marching. Hhmm, bit shy back then! lol

Ah, these are fond memories that come to mind at present - but I'm sure it hasn't been 40 yrs! Has it? lol