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 …
These are photos and other things from Barb’s childhood scrapbook made mostly in 1966 when she lived in Italy. The commentary and captions are the best I can glean from the album and my own guesses. There are a few photos and things at the end from another scrapbook from 1968-1970. I need to get …
Allie got her first cat, Perri, in September 2020 as a buddy in her new Boston apartment. Allie settled into her new Boston apartment in August 2020 and immediately became very eager to get a kitten to keep her company. After several weeks of intense but fruitless searching, she found a winning kitten, a one-eyed …
Picking up the second half of 1996 from the end of September when we moved into our house at Paddington Court. It was a big year. At the end of September, we finally moved into our new home at 10316 Paddington Court. We used Student Services for the short move (because they were cheap) and …
I woke from an oddball dream this morning with some questions rattling around my head. It’s been a couple of months since I cracked open Barb’s grandmother’s scrapbook and started to tumble down the genealogy rabbit hole. It’s been a few weeks since I finished transcribing the scrapbook into a series of posts and added …
I’m not quite sure how or when we decided that taking a cruise to Alaska with Allie as a 5-year old was at the top of our wish list. I suspect it’s because someone from Barb’s work had done a similar trip and recommended it (see the page of notes…from who?). I viewed it as …
Part 3 of Helen Fisher’s family scrapbook. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. The pages in this post focus on Helen’s grandparents and parents, then Helen and her children. This first page starts with Helen’s grandmother, Mary Ermina (Kellogg) Allen, also known as Minnie. We begin with a special card and poem, “Baby”. …
Part 2 of Helen Fisher’s family scrapbook. Part 1 is here. This next page contains “more notes found pertaining to my maternal family history.” The main item on the page is this “Letter written to (?) Auntie Mae by her mother – my grandmother Allen. No date — about 1899 or 98 probably.” Auntie Mae …
Helen (DeLamater) Fisher, Fred’s mother and Barb and Betsy’s grandmother, left a thick family scrapbook which I believe came into our hands when Fred died. It then languished on a shelf in my office for many years. Barb forgot we even had it. My little archiving project for this website was the first time either …
In (I’m guessing) June of 2003, the Embrey family embarked on a road trip north to Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks, followed by a leg into Alberta, Canada visiting Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. Betsy sent photos but didn’t annotate so I’m making educated guesses on locations and sequence. Maybe they can fill in the …