The Vautier Home Page

    We are such stuff as dreams are made on
    And our little life is rounded with a sleep.

             Shakespeare, The Tempest

Dominic Vautier welcomes you his web site

If you have the courage you can even email: me

Cynthia and I had a wonderful opportunity to visit Ireland.  I put up a few web pages about our adventures and mis-adventures.  See Dublin Trip. 
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Our poor basset finally went to that great dog kennel in the sky.  I expect that the good little animal was greeted by dozens of snarling Dobermans and vicious Rottweilers.

I set up a section called My Rants so I can keep all my personal venting separate from my other personal venting. 

My most ambitious venture to date is the re-digitizing of a bunch of old records.  That's because comcast, in all their graciousness gave me a lot more web space to play with.  So I managed to reproduce some of those old records in style.  see Old Record Collection.  I also did a page on Fire Alarms.   

I try to collect things about our family and put them into a meaningful presentation.  Feel free to check out any and all of the topics listed here for your mutual enjoyment, amazement, astonishment, grief, fear, dread, embarrassment, or for any other reason you may have.  I plan  to do bigger and better things for sure, but as I get older things seem to get harder and harder.  After all I'm officially retired and have nothing else to do except the kitchen, laundry, three kids still at home, sometimes two borders or more, a working wife that also has demands, 5 dogs, 2 cats, 4 cars--what a peaceful and pleasant life.

Cyn is the only women in Bellevue with her own jackhammer.  She wanted a jackhammer last Christmas--so what was I to do but get one.

We plan a vacation to Tuscany one of these years so I need to get up on my Italian.  I have been there three times but Cyn has not.

I do have some GREAT STUFF that I'm working on   My latest and most feeble attempt may be of interest.  I set up two sections on this site, one entitled MY LIFE -- SORT OF which has to do with my early days, growing up, seminary, education, army, girls, love life, (before the wife and kids and dogs and house and credit cards and teenagers and cars).  The second section goes into MY ROOTS.  This is a huge difficult section and it will eventually be done (person by person) when I can ever get it done.  My brother Frank, the unofficial caretaker of the Vautier archives, has graciously sent me a whole bunch of info about where I came from and who were all those guys that gave me such weird and disorganized genes. 

Get a load of those ears!!!

BUSINESS            Resume (even though I'm retired)   Skills (mostly for making trouble)     Setting up your very own Home Network is a page   I put up a long time age but I still like it anyway.	PUBLICATIONS      Early American Popular Music      Old Record Collection      My all time favorite Gregorian Chants      Poems        Popular Music - Some stories      Home Video to DVD - Some great ideas        LP to CD - Hints       Everything you wanted to know about LPs       What to do about Record Mold.      My Beatles collection will be soon featured.
VACATIONS      Moses Lake   Ocean Shores   Hamilton   Montreal (2004)     Ocean Shores II (not yet developed)	PROJECTS     The Mound   House Painting   Apple Tree   The Floor   French Doors   Central Vacuum Systems   The Roof   A Brand New Tree   Cyn's Roses   The Ranger Canapé   The Great Snake   Bed frames and wrestling
PETS The Basset    Phoebus Pumpkin   Black dog	STORIES AND FUN THINGS     Val's Big Airplane Trip   The Crash   The Tub   Our Poor old Douglas Fir     My Ford Ranger Radio    Val's motor scooter   Luci's new do    Val goes out for Football
MY LIFE -- SORT OF     Bellingham   Everett - Grand Street   St. Edwards   Richmond   Richmond 2   Novitiate   Newton      My Army Experiences	ROOTS        Where I came from   Genealogy   My Mother   My Dad   The Vautier side of the family   The O'Rouark side of the family   The Jessops/Jessups   The Old Farm and other interesting places
soon to be used--or misused	MY RANTS                         Here is a collection of my latest complaints   against  the world, the flesh, the devil, God, the   Government, and anything else I can think of.   Tensioner Replacement   Fire Alarms   Motor Oil   How to test a CO alarm    Changing Transmission Oil   Making a really safe oven hood
A LITTLE MORE ACTION HERE IF YOU PLEASE         Gabriel decides to kick the football:   Opps -- right into the phone line. Val doing a trick of two with his skateboard on his new rail -- well sort of anyway. And here comes Sparky the Basset wagging  her way through life. See Pumpkin run -- the fastest thing around on four feet. Cyn is handy with a brush.  She now will attempt some faux painting in the bedroom. And Val goes out for a pass -- and he's going... going... going... Here is Gabe, our star chef cooking up a fine Denver omelet.