Barb and I continued to celebrate our 50th birthdays and our 25th anniversary. Allie started 8th grade at GCS. It continued to be a big year. Allie spent two weeks in early July at a JHU CTY class, Whodunit? Mystery and Suspense in Literature and Film, at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. I think she …
Barb and I got ready to celebrate our 50th birthdays and our 25th anniversary. Allie continued with 7th grade at GCS. It was a big year. We started the new year with an open house party for friends and neighbors at our house on January 5. I think this was the second of these annual …
Allie was in 6th grade, middle school at GCS. We gave the first of what proved to be a short-lived tradition of inviting friends and neighbors to a post-New Year’s open house. It was a nice idea: it forced us to clean up the house, it was a good chance to meet our expanding list …
Continuing our activities from October – December, 2006. On the morning of Sunday, October 8, the day of Allie’s 11th birthday party, we unexpectedly found a kitten in the construction site next door to our house. We brought him in, scrubbed him up and wondered what to do with him. We made every effort to …
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, …
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 …
Grandma and Grandpop were our first visitors at Pfefferkorn on July 19. Grandma persisted in her efforts to teach Allie knitting. Allie was a willing pupil for a while but I’m not sure she retained any skills. It was a little like most of her sports and music endeavors — learned that, move on. One …
As 2005 got underway, we were in the midst of constructing the Pfefferkorn house, I was taking personal finance classes online and Allie was in fourth grade at Glenelg Country School. On January 13 we did something or other with Chris Garwood and her dog, Tallie. It’s possible that at this point Chris and Gerard …
April – June, 2005: Getting everything finished. Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Pouring concrete for steps. April 7, 2005 The yard is graded for landscaping. Friday, April 8, 2005 Getting ready for painting. A look around the exterior. Monday, April 11, 2005 Painting underway and getting ready for walkways outside. Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Headway on …