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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 April - June

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.   April 2005 April 15. We had a great time in AZ. Merge and Pete have promised to visit Iowa this summer while Deb K. is still on the fence. Now what to do with the DVDs and CDs?? We visited the Biosphere 2 on this trip. It was interesting but I still am not sure why anyone built it! Debbie and I have rescheduled our New York City trip until June. Too much going on and too many people moving in May. We are waiting for Merge and Deb K to commit to a trip back to Des Moines in July and then we will schedule the rest of our vacation time. April 18. We watched Grease at the DM Civic Center. The “we” included Debbie and me along with Mikk...