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2005 October - December

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. Thursday, September 1. I traveled to Kansas City and back with Linda R. to pick up Mike’s niece, Joey (short for Josephine). Joey and her mother live with Mike’s sister and there have been several health issues in the house. Mike and Linda offered to watch Joey for a couple of weeks to let them “have a break”.  We picked up Joey and were about three blocks from her home when she asked, “Are we there yet?” I laughed and gave her the same answer I gave my kids, “Ten more miles!”. She asked again a couple of minutes later and I thought it was going to be a long trip. A few minutes later she was asleep and didn’t wake up until we reached...

2005 January - March

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. January 2005 January 1. Another New Year's Eve at the Val-Air Ballroom and, as always, a lot of fun. The same group, the Conroys, the Mays, the Burdettes, and the Robinsons did our lemming-like return to the ballroom and shuffled on the dance floor after gorging on the great food catered by Christiani’s VIP Catering Service, LTD. The featured band was “Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits”. He is the original “Herman”. Great show! We got autographs after the show and I recommended that he change the words from “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” to Mrs. Greenwood You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”! There was kind of a hush all over the ro...