2011 - Almost Gone

This year found us doing a lot of traveling. In April we headed northeast visiting friends a long the way. We stopped in Dayton, OH for the River Rats Reunion. They held most of the events at the National Museum of the Air Force at Wright Patterson. What a fantastic venue.              

Of course when we headed south we stopped at Macintire ANG to do a show for the Swamp Foxes. Dick has a tender spot for that group because they were his last active duty assignment. Check out "Swamp Fox" at the erosonic.com website if you want to hear more.

We returned home in June in time for Dick to accept the nomination to be President of the Northern Arizona Chapter of MOAA for 2012. He is looking forward to doing a good job for them for his term of 2 years.

In October we headed for San Antonio for the Head Hunters Reunion. The hospitality suite got really rowdy a couple of nights. "Twin Tailed Lightning" was a favorite of the crowd.

Tex Ritter sets the mood

The crowd joins in

Later that month we were back in San Antonio for the MOAA conference to learn about how to be an officer and to meet other officers from around Arizona.


November took us to Luke AFB for the 2nd Tactics Conference. The Friday Night party was in a hanger this year and Dos Gringos joined in the fun.

Dick stays active in the Prescott area with The Cool Water Band. Today the band will be at Morimer's Farms at 3 PM as part of their fall festival. We will be playing at the Prescott Trading Co., on Whiskey Row [142 Montezuma], the evening of Dec. 9th -- 5:30 - 8:30 +/- as part of the annual holiday Acker event. On Sat., Dec. 10th the band will provide music for the Holiday Lunch of the NAC of MOAA. So you see with all of this we do stay busy. If you are in the area for any of these upcoming events please stop by & say hello.

How Time Flies

It has been almost a year since I last posted to this blog. My Bad!

Our Spring travels took us to Dayton, OH for the River Rats reunion with events at the National Museum of the USAF. Irv & Sally LeVine were with us and the guys gave a fantastic show at the Flight Suit Party.

After the reunion we headed to McEntire ANGB to do a show for the Swamp Foxes.

We also did shows for the Lake City, FL VA Hospital patients and the Senior Center in Nowata, OK. It was a long trip but we had good times visiting with friends. Our travels took us through San Antonio, TX and of course a get together with Charlie Huff and Toby Hughes at the O'Club was a must.

We hope to see more friends when we participate in the Tactics Conference at Luke AFB in November.

Auxiliary Boutique

Dick and I are off to Newport Beach, CA to participate
in the American Legion Newport Harbor Auxiliary Unit 291
Boutique with our new friend and fellow musician, Trish Lester.

We hope those if you who live in the area can stop by and
visit for awhile. The Boutique is from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
on Thursday, November 4th at the Legion Post.
[address info below]

Newport Harbor, Inc. Post 291
215 15th Street
Newport Beach, CA 92663

949 874 4912

A couple of updates

The Barnes & Noble store in Prescott had down sized its music department so the Cool Water Band CD's are no longer available there. They are still at The Worm on Whiskey Row along with some of Dick's fighter pilot CD's and books.

Our next trip will be October 13 - 18, 2010. We will be in Colorado Springs to attend the 8th Wing Reunion and to visit our grandchildren. If you are planning to attend the 8th Wing Reunion we hope to see you there.

Dick Jonas CD's available in Prescott

The Worm Bookstore at 128 S. Montezuma in Prescott, AZ is selling both Cool Water Band CDs and Dick's Family Albums 1 &  2 Fighter Pilot CDs as well as the RBAAB and PTF books. The next time you are in Prescott stop into the store and check out what they have.                                     

The Cool Water Band performs on the PRC Courthouse Square
at High Noon

The Cool Water Band continues to perform monthly at the PRC VA Hospital and recently participated in the 4th Annual Acker on the Plaza to help raise funds for the band members of Bradshaw Mtn. H.S. to go to Washington DC to participate in the 4th of July activities next year.

We were pleased that Angela could come for a visit and join us for Acker. She was a real trouper because we performed  on August 21st from noon to 1:45 in 90+ degrees with no shade!

Members of the band left to right: Vic Jeffries; Bass, Tom Calvert; Vocals and Guitar, Angela Jonas: Vocals; Dick Jonas; Vocals and Guitar; seated in the back is Carl Brehmer; Vocals, Lead Guitar, and Fiddle. I ran the sound equipment and took this picture.