OGC Picnic 2004
August 31, 2004 picnic at Centennial Park in Columbia. Barb will have to caption these.
Building Pfefferkorn, Part 3
January – March, 2005: Windows, doors, roof…completing exterior, starting interiors. Monday, January 3, 2005 Happy New Year! Roof pretty much complete. Have a look from Pfefferkorn Road and around the neighborhood. Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Getting ready for a real roof. Monday, January 17, 2005 We have windows and doors! Friday, January 21, 2005 Now …
Coronavirus Journey, Part 9
Part nine of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Previous posts: Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020). Part Two (April 2020). Part Three (May 2020). Part Four (June 2020). Part Five (July 2020). Part Six (August 2020). Part Seven (September 2020). Part Eight (October 2020). November 3 We …
Building Pfefferkorn, Part 2
November – December, 2004: Exterior and interior framing, and getting a roof. We have the basics of a house in four months since groundbreaking. Monday, November 1, 2004 Allie and I stopped by after school. We have floors! Tuesday, November 2, 2004 We return the next day. We have the first of our walls. We …
Building Pfefferkorn, Part 1
September – October, 2004: Breaking ground, foundation. I started visiting the building site every few days to monitor progress. It was easy to swing by after dropping Allie off at school. Thursday, September 23, 2004 I stopped by to check on things. Not much had started yet other than the storm fencing was finished. Friday, …
Pfefferkorn Purchase
Making the decision to build our house on Pfefferkorn Road. A confluence of factors sparked our decision to leave our house at Paddington Court and build a new home on Pfefferkorn Road. With some of the bonuses I earned in 2000 and 2001, we paid off our Paddington mortgage which seemed like a reasonable thing …
Coronavirus Journey, Part 8
Part seven of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. Part Four (June 2020) is here. Part Five (July 2020) is here. Part Six (August 2020) is here, Part …
Boston, October 2020
Celebrating Allie’s 25th birthday, new apartment and new kitten, Perri, in this difficult year of Coronavirus. In the first nine months of 2020, we had only seen Allie twice for a total of about 10 days: for our trip to Aruba in March and when she came down for a short break to the Eastern …
Scotland, August 2004
Barb, Allie and I ventured to the Duncan ancestral homeland. It was the first time there for Allie and Barb. For me, the trip followed some of the path of a vacation with Mom and Dad in 1974, but with more golf. We kicked around the idea of a family vacation to England and Scotland …
Cultural Memories – 1977-1978
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, 1977 and 1978. 1977 By January of 1977 I had survived the first semester of my freshman year at Georgetown, dealing with the questionable decision to study Chinese, …