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JANUARY 1, 2013Happy New Year!From the Furse FamilyBusiness NameOur House is Getting Bigger — Now We Need a Bigger Dining Room!Larry & Cindy Furse2295 N Pinecrest Canyon Rd,SLC, UT 84108ph: (801) 581-9225Cindy: cfurse@ece.utah.eduwww.ece.utah.edu/~cfurseLarryFurse@yahoo.comAs we watch the calendar close on 2012, we send our warmestwishes to you and your family — wishing you a joyful 2013 fullof dreams and promise.I write this annual New Year’s letter, snuggled up by a warmwood stove under the lights of the Christmas tree, with a dogsleeping at my feet, and memories of grandchildren delighted bynew Christmas crayons and Legos with ‘constructions’ (instructions).I realize how lucky I am that our family is not in the news thesedifficult days. I wish for peace in our world, and comfort wherethere is not peace.This has been both a good year and a sad year in our family.Ever so good because Katie graduated from the U with her degreein Electrical Engineering! And Ian’s growing family thrives —Tycee is reading, Lilly is in nursery school, and Ian & Dawn areexpecting another baby in June. The year has been sad, becauseI lost my dear horse companion, Friday, and am missing himdeeply.In the coming year, we hope that life treats you well, and that youmay wander down many interesting and beautiful trails.Ian, Mom, KatieChivyMaxbitingChivyJackThe Ever-Patient KipLadyA few of the year’s highlights: Katie graduated! BSEE 2012 from the UofU. Max,Olive, Bernouli, and her pet rat keep her companyas she studies now for her MS degree. Lilly turned four, loves stuff that moves, and hernew nursery school. Tycee turned 6 (1st grade), and is reading, drawing,and learning many new things. Ian continues to support his little family as anHVAC installer. Larry continues to make wood chips and fine instruments,tear holes in the sky, and make manytracks. Cindy trained a young horse, Boon, this summer,something she didn’t really know if she could do.We wish you & yours a fantastic year whereall of your happiest tail-wagging dreams

CindyCaption describing picture orgraphic.This fall has been heart breaking, as I lay my precious Friday to rest. Itreasure the 8 years and many, many miles of mountain trails we rodetogether (over 10,000 miles). I miss him deeply and profoundly. Myheart weeps. Sometimes in your life, there is magic, a deep connectionto the earth, the wind, and the sky. These have been my magical years.In June, I bought Boon, a young 3 year old paint, whom I trained overthe summer. He is now a nice riding horse, still green, but ready to takeon most trails most days. We have many miles to go...Yes, I am still workingat the U. Two weeksago my fortune cookiesaid, ‘The next fewdays will be lucky foryou. You can take achance.’ Then, the nextMonday … the hugefinancial project I havespearheaded the last2yrs went live(beautifully), a patentwas approved, agrant funded, and myclass of 68 studentsdid great on their final.LiveWire Innovation,my little companythat finds electricalfaults on live wires,continues to do awesome,and I continue toenjoy my research andteaching very much.LarryLarry’s shop continues to be his refuge amongst the sweet smell ofwood chips, and the song of his beautiful violins and violas. Hetaught Jack (wild black lab teenager) to howl when he plays, whichnow he does, most mournfully, even in his sleep. Larry haunts thetrails of Pinecrest and the Great Salt Lake marshes morning(walking Cindy) and night with Jack, Kip, Max & Ninja, who all turnthemselves inside out with glee when he shows up to take them fora wild run. When our elderly cat died this year, this prompted anupstairs remodeling project. We put down a pine floor in thewhole upstairs (study & bedroom) and cupboards & pine shelves inthe study/craft room. Larry is often found hammering/painting/gluing/digging/fixing around one of our three houses, or caringfor our family’s fleet of high mileage jalopies. His most recent additionis a 1990 Jeep Wrangler with only 237,000 miles. (Pickingme up for lunch in his last Wrangler, my students thought my husbandof 30 years was ‘my boyfriend’, which indeed, he is!) Larry’snew Stik airplane is built specifically to fly out on the nearby saltflats (kind of a bumpy landing, needs a pretty durable plane). Heis anxious for a break in the weather to take it for its maiden flight.The LuthierCoffee on Linen by Katie Furse

Ian, Dawn, Tycee (6), Lilly (4)Page 3Ian, Dawn, Tycee (6) and Lilly (4) are awaitingthe arrival of another Baby Furse in June. Weare all excited! Tycee is in first grade — reading,drawing, playing with her friends. Shecontinues her fascination with dinosaurs andother animals. She was a blue dragon for Halloween.Lilly (4) is in nursery school now, andloves it. She loves things that move (trains, cars,airplanes, and swings), and she likes to cuddle.She was so cute at Christmas — ’This is just whatI wanted!’ she kept saying. Ian enjoys workingas an HVAC installer for Whipple Plumbing andHeating, and as you can see, he continues tohave his boyish sense of humor. Dawn taxis thekids, something that is starting to be a biggerjob as the years go on. Ninja (black lab brotherto our Jack and Katie’s Max) patrols the fenceline and eats stray toys.Katie — BSEE 2012!Katie graduated from the University of Utah in Electrical & ComputerEngineering in May. She finished in 3 short (?) years! We areso proud of her! She has now started her Master’s degree (in EE) atthe U, and is considering working towards a joint MBA degree aswell. Katie worked this summer at a local medical device company,BioFire, and thoroughly enjoyed her time there. She supportedherself as a Microwave Engineering TA this fall, and will be workingon her research in medical imaging this spring. Now that she hasher own home internet, we see Katie much less frequently. Whattime not spent studying is spent hanging out with her friends, playingwith Olive & Bernoulli (the cats), Max (her still-puppyish grownup blacklab), andher pet rat.OliveBernouli