Family

Back home at Tween Creeks, we're celebrating our anniversary quietly at home. In town briefly to run a couple of errands, we found a lucky penny dated 1973, the year we were married!

Thirty-six years ago tomorrow Mother and Dad celebrated their 24th Wedding Anniversary by marrying off their eldest daughter Karen to Steve. Today we celebrated both anniversaries by renewing our vows at mass at St Anthony of Padua Church, Bud & Cathie's parish....

In honor of Bud & Cathie's Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary we gathered for a luncheon in Zephyrhills. We regaled them with a video presentation of their wedding, reception, honeymoon, and first year photo albums, a book of memories, gifts, cards, and bubbles! Check...

We two, two of Karen's sisters, one brother, one niece, and one nephew settled into the St Charles Inn in San Antonio FL and parents Bud & Cathie joined us for a pizza dinner. Then in an impromptu moment we all gathered on the front porch for Mother and Dad...

Michael who builds displays for hands-on museums invited us to see some of the projects on which he is working. We got to check out what it feels like to rest on a bed of nails and learn the ins and outs of a giant can crusher - actually it crushes garbage cans! Then...

As former regulars at a downtown Irish pub we thought it was our responsibility to check out the newest one, Paddy Burkes. So we gathered some of our favorite people and got ourselves a table outside since the noise level inside was deafening. That was a good idea...

We've were regulars at the Wednesday Night Swing Dance beginning in 1999 through August of 2008. We're in St Petersburg staying with our very hospitable friend, Vivian, taking care of several items of personal business but taking out time for fun with our community of...

Karen participated in a natural dyes workshop back in May at the Jackson County Green Energy Workshop. Today seemed a good day to dye. Lets see what some ferrous sulfate as mordant and privet hedge and some heat will do to some handspun wool yarn.   

Before making tracks for home, we stopped in Blue Ash to share lunch with Uncle Neil & Aunt Vi, and Cousins Joe & Carol. We also presented Neil & Vi with the latest installment of the Family History Video Series - the Barney & Mary story.

Since we were camped at East Fork State Park near where they live, Cousin Chris and his wife Nancy invited us to join them for Sunday Mass at their parish, St Philomena. It's a special place for Chris since his maternal grandparents were parishioners there. After Mass...