Our New Year’s girl at home, ready to party like it’s 1999! We don’t have any other photos so I suspect the was a New Year’s Eve spent at home with Dick Clark rockin’ the countdown on TV. Barb notes this is a nightgown that Grandmom made Allie. Grandmom was especially proud of the smocking …
With the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic well underway, I’ve decided to collect my personal journal entries in one place to get a sense of the flow of events. I won’t get any awards for insight, but want to track developments from my perspective as they go. We are in largely uncharted waters and I think …
Barb, Allie and I returned to Aruba for a few days of sun. We made the arrangements months ahead, but happened to travel just as the corona virus pandemic started to really impact Europe and the US. It didn’t change our trip very much, but raised the level of anxiety and made it hard for …
We had another beach weekend at Ocean City with the Harders. I’m pretty sure this was the July 4th weekend. We stayed at The Plaza again and watched the fireworks at Ocean City’s Northside Park. Allie and I were getting much better at building sandcastles. This one was one of our best. I also loved …
A running tab of movies I’ve seen in theaters or at home, and a quick comment about them. I’ve succumbed to the idea of assigning a personal score for each film. My scale: 4 Stars – One of the best, well recommended 3 Stars – Recommended, but some issues here and there 2 Stars – Problematic, hard to recommend 1 Star …
We ventured down to Riviera Beach in mid-January to celebrate Dad’s 80th birthday with a luncheon cruise on Lake Worth. This was one of the few times we got all the family together, including Len, proving that Len met Allie (though there is no direct evidence that Sue was there). Allie was by now in …
A record of our preparations for the music festival and vacation originally scheduled for November 2020 in Punta Cana. Getting Started For a number of years, I toyed with the idea of going on the Cayamo Cruise which annually gathered a bunch of my favorite musicians for a week in the Caribbean. The cruise was …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974. 1971 We arrived in Hong Kong on August 15, 1971 with Typhoon Rose. It took us a while to come to terms with Hong …
I went to Asheville, NC, to see Laurie and Sue who were housesitting at Susanna’s place while she and the kids were in the Galapagos for an extended stay. Monday, January 27 I flew from BWI to Asheville on Delta via Atlanta. We had a slight delay when they had to switch planes in Atlanta …
I know it’s self indulgent (and a humble brag, according to Allie) to do a post about golf and the courses I’ve played; I resisted it for quite awhile. But the topic keeps lingering in my mind and pulls up associated memories, so I’ve decided to go ahead and see where it leads. Please indulge …