Our niece who lives in South Carolina is here for a couple weeks, and we hadn’t seen Jay’s parents in a while either, so we figured out a day we could get away and go see them. The picture above is Jay tying his boat to a tree at the landing. The landing at the […]
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This is a picture of Gladys and her husband Jim. Gladys was our accountant. I still think of her as our accountant. She and Jim were friends of Jay’s parents, absolutely first rate people. When you start a business, you need a good accountant, someone who understands small business and can explain things in very
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Last Monday it was so incredibly, miserably hot, like melting, can’t catch your breath hot. These kids came for the day and were quite happy to see each other. Here they are playing on tablets in that room that was so scary the night before that the little ones called their mother crying. So scary.
Thursday evening was Maria’s wedding shower. It was an understated occasion, good food and easy company. Those were the only two photos I managed to take. Someone else took this one of my girls all in a row: It was a perfect evening, and so looking forward to the wedding in a few weeks. Maria?
So my Outlook program went into an error a month ago, quit working. There were many error messages advising many things, none of which would work, brought it all back in a circle. There’s no longer support for Outlook 2007. I had to use the xfinity website associated with the email address, and that worked
Today was the official birthday day. Last weekend celebrated at the lake: Tonight we went out for dinner. Dannell sent this picture of Julia and John from last weekend–the oldest and the youngest, and now we have no more children, only adults: Julia I hope this year is fantastic, the last year of high school
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Here’s a pic from Saturday night, coaxing you to let us sing Happy Birthday to you. You’re a patient man and a good sport. And in about one month is the wedding! More Maria and Dalton: Happy Birthday, Buddy. We are so happy to have you in the family, Love, Val and Jay and Every
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Okay, this was a challenge taken: Son in law in front, Future son in law in the middle, Grandson in the back, two sons, one on each side: Yeah. Volleyball with no net: Joe mentioned this to me–one red flower behind the fish house. I asked him, “Bee balm?” He said he thought so. Just
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It’s Julia’s birthday and Kai was along for the weekend. Lovely how that roll of paper towels was not moved out of the way before taking the pic. Pssht. When Kari put a plastic container on her head and fake sneezed so it would fall off, the hilarity was supreme. Very sweet. They had
It is the end. It was a hot, intense weekend, and there’s still giggling down the hall, all connected between them and their aunt with tablets and cords across the bed and air mattress–a wall to wall sea of beds, pillows and quilts, fan in the doorway. An hour ago there was a weepy phone
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