By 2006, I had been to San Francisco a dozen or more times over my life and career and loved it, but Barb had never really seen it properly and this was Allie’s first trip to the west coast. I wanted to introduce the girls to the best of Northern California and together explore up …
George Jacob Jingleheimerschmitt was our little rescue kitty. We weren’t looking to add to our menagerie since we already had Harry Potter and Buster, but nevertheless, George inserted himself in our lives on Sunday, October 8, 2006, the morning of Allie’s 11th birthday party. We had been in our Pfefferkorn house a little over a …
Covering activities from July – September, 2006. Betsy, Joe, Sara and Kristen made their first return east from Colorado just after July 4. To celebrate, and show off our Pfefferkorn house for Barb’s extended family of “Chinese” aunties and uncles — the old Fisher cohort of China hands — we hosted a brunch on Saturday, …
A plunge into the Goodloe gene pool, my grandmother Susie’s family. And we end up learning more about the Duncans, too. I was a year-and-a-half into this website before I started tackling our family history, starting with Sue’s Memory Book for Mom and Dad. At that time, I remembered seeing a thick book on Goodloe …
While this entire website is something of a meditation on family, this post is a place for me to explore the topic in more depth. It has taken me a long time to recognize what an important role family holds over a lifetime. I think my evolving recognition is pretty typical, though it’s one of …
In 2006 we continued settling into our Pfefferkorn house, I was looking for new adventures after financial planning and Allie was in fifth grade at Glenelg Country School. Between Allie, Barb and I, we had some mutual fantasies about turning Allie into a TV star or model. Allie spent countless hours of her life watching …
For 2019 Mother’s Day, Sue’s daughters gave her a subscription to StoryWorth, a service that gives prompts to help you write down significant life stories. Over the course of a year or so, Sue responded to the prompts and compiled a manuscript. In early 2021, the girls published copies of the book, Gramma Sue Stories, …
So, dear reader, I have some things to unpack today. For the better part of a month I’ve been working on the Garbutt Family Documents post. It started with a cache of articles and documents that Sue sent me in January. I started putting them into the post and supplemented them with internet research, which …
In January 2021, Sue sent along a cache of Garbutt family documents that Keri had been storing. They were from Mom and included some things from her brother Glenn and one or more of her sisters. They provide more detail about the Garbutt side of family, going back to George Garbutt who came to Georgia …
Buster joined us in August 2005 and hung in there until January 2021, becoming our longest-lived cat. July 31, 2005 Once we moved into our new Pfefferkorn home, Barb and Allie conspired to get a new kitten. Barb learned of a woman who had a bunch of kittens available. On July 31, Barb and Allie …