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 …
Photos from Barb’s holiday office party, December 18, 2003.
Allie, Barb and I took a summer roadtrip to upstate New York, making stops at Hyde Park, the Mohonk Mountain Inn, Cooperstown, and Niagara Falls. Sunday, August 24 We drove from our home on Paddington Court to Poughkeepsie, going via Harrisburg and Pennsylvania to avoid I-95 and New Jersey. We found our hotel (nothing special, …
One of Allie’s buddies in Brownies was a girl named Anna Marie. Barb got to be friendly with her Mom and learned they were going to be heading to Denmark for a year where her husband was to teach an exchange program at a university. The friend, whose name we can’t remember, made the mistake …
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 …
Allie, Barb and I went to Florida for a summer break, starting on June 28. We stayed with Grandmom and Grandpop for a few days, probably staying at the Hilton on Singer Island. Sue was staying with Grandmom and Grandpop, too. On July 1, Barb, Allie and I checked into The Breakers Hotel in Palm …
For Christmas 2002, I got myself one of them newfangled digital cameras, so 2003 marks our first year of mostly digital photos, with timestamps that help me place when each shot was taken. Lucky you! Barb, Allie and I started the year (actually the end of 2002) in Florida with Grandma and Grandpop at their …
One day, in late August or September of 2002, Allie and Barb went grocery shopping together at the Dorsey Search Giant near home. There was a girl outside the store with a sign saying “Free Kittens” and a box of said kittens there for the choosing. (I must say, I’ve shopped there hundreds of times …
The sale of Hekimian Laboratories, Inc. to Spirent was announced in November, 2000 and finalized the next month. January 2001 began the process of actually beginning to integrate Hekimian into Spirent’s operations. Spirent was a British-based company with a nearly 60-year history starting in electrical supplies. It had been on the London Stock Exchange since …
Here is a collection of our holiday letters over the years, for those keeping track. Some years are missing, either because we didn’t do a letter or I don’t have an electronic copy. Some Memories of 2023 Some Memories of 2022 Some Memories of 2021 Some Memories of 2020 Some Memories of 2019 Some Memories …