Family

Being Cincinnati bound is not remarkable for us but our position in the backseat is a bit unusual. This time we're traveling with Bill & Dove. It's been a fun opportunity to reminisce about many other trips north on I-75 with the Queen City as destination. One...

Time to get out! For us it's been a beautiful afternoon to be out and about after several days of rain and spending long hours on the sorting, scanning, writing project. This morning we come to a stopping point, packed up the unscanned photos, gathered up the ones...

Today's goal was to wind up this phase of our Spring project. We collected the slides, photos, albums, and documents that we've been scanning and labeling which are destined for the Museum Closet at Karen's sister's house. We printed out copies of the family history...

The days are warming, the rains are soaking in, the trees are greening. It's a magical time. Every day the scene is greener than it was yesterday. We're inspired to begin putting out baskets of annuals, pull weeds from the driveway, and actually get out and do some...

These last many weeks we have totally immersed ourselves into digitizing family history. Relatives actively support our role of self appointed family historians by gifting us with all the old family photos and documents but it is our dads' prodigious slide collections...

The Oneida Community silverware that Karen's parents received as a wedding present in 1949 has been given a new lease on life. Niece Rebecca and her new husband Mike have adopted it and plan on putting it to use in their new life together. In the process of polishing...

The Southeast Asian Restaurant in Sylva Plaza has been open but a few weeks. They have just a few menu items but luckily Phở is one. We made plans a few days back to rendezvous with Mary and Stan here tonight without knowing at the time that the weather would be so...

Last October we returned to Tween Crreks to find western NC and eastern TN riddled with wildfires. The Gatlinburg fire made national news but was only one of many north, south, east, and west of us. The smoke was so thick that at times we couldn't see the trees behind...

Lots of hugs yesterday, an early morning hug from Rebecca,  one more visit with Karen's Dad, more hugs from Lou, and Patti, and we departed Fort Worth just after lunch. We made it as far as Ruston LA where we found a place to fill our bellies and lay our heads for the...

Thank you, Brian and Alexis, for organizing this family gathering in the the Day Room. It was good to get the local and the out of town family together to get hugs, sit down together for a meal, and to listen to one another's tales of adventures. Soon many of us will...