bits and pieces

I’ve Just added the Relatives gallery to My Photos.  My three children are Michael, David, and Naomi.  I have no digital photos of David’s children Jonathan and Jennifer or of Naomi’s daughter Annie, but I’ll  get scans of film photos one day so I can include them here. Marni is the daughter of Len’s daughter Amy, but though she has none of my blood she has a sizeable part of my heart and will always be my grandchild along with my children’s children.

Since Len died in 2005 and my sister Maxine in 2006 I have spent weeks at a time  in British Columbia, where I usually stayed with my wonderful McKinley cousins in Tswassen, just south of Vancouver, while I cleared Maxine’s locker of stored memorabilia.  (Unfortunately, I had much too much of it sent south to Maryland so must now spend even more time on it while my own begs for attention.)  If I could get Medicare in BC I would be happy to spend the rest of my life there, it is such a beautiful place.

Besides moving twice (August 2006 and July 2008) I’ve visited Michael’s family in Kansas twice, toured for almost two weeks in Costa Rica, and visited Naomi and David in their New Jersey homes a few times each year.  My sister-in-law Paul (Pauline) Lewis lives in Chincoteague, VA (the home of Chincoteague ponies and the entrance point for Assateague National Seashore) with her brother David Baga.  We delight in each other’s company, and it’s just slightly over an hour’s drive from here, so I try to get down about once a month for at least a few hours.  Although I have no recent picture of David I have two rather nice ones of Paul that will appear here in due course.

Naomi and her husband and sons have moved to Switzerland for a few years, and I plan to visit them there next summer combined with a visit with my nieces in England.  Quite an exciting prospect, especially since I’ve never been to Europe!

Before I write again I hope my webmaster will teach me how to decrease the size of the posting titles!!

Namaste.