Mike, Cheryl and Connor traveled to Arizona over this last weekend because Cheryl, who works for Morgan Stanley, had a meeting in Scottsdale on Monday. They went out early so they could travel down to the Grand Canyon on a mini-vacation and sight-seeing tour. Of course, one of Mike's objectives was to do some photography.
My friend Jane Hascall's husband Benny, who is only 60, suffered a stroke on December 6th. Fortunately he is recovering at one of Colorado's finest rehab facilities, the Craig Rehabilitation Center in Englewood, CO. With the assistance of Benny's daughter, Katie, Jane utilized one of that facilities' excellent services to create a web site where she posts updates on his condition. That way, his friends and relatives can be kept current about his progress by subscribing to those updates or just by periodically visiting the site. This solution is so much better than Jane's having to send out periodic emails to a distribution list.
Could anyone wish for anything more for Christmas?
My grandson, Connor, turned 19 months old on December 1, 2006. His Dad, Mike, has done a great job of documenting his appearance at the first of each month since he arrived. This crop of his picture at this milestone is provided for those of you who don't have access to Mike's Flickr site as a Friend or Family member. Since I remember his father at this same age, I can assure you that Connor has that same, mischievous glint in his eye that his father had at the same age. I'm sure you'll forgive a doting old grandfather for his pride in posting this darling photograph of the little tike.
Yesterday, Mike and Cheryl went with Cheryl's Mammaw to visit the grave of her husband, Eugene Doyle (Pappaw), who died this year. While there, Mike captured this photo of these two headstones that we noticed at Pappaw's funeral. They are very near his grave site and hard to miss.
Back on November 6th of 2004, I traveled back to Stone Mountain, GA, to attend a family reunion of the Baxter branch of my family (my mother's maiden name was Baxter) where I was privileged to meet a member of the family I hadn't met before, Jane Baxter (pictured at the left). I described that visit in a blog post at the time. Since then, I've wanted to do an interview of Jane about the business that she has started, and at long last on this past Saturday, Jane and I got together by phone to do that. The audio blog post that you can listen to below contains the edited result of that interview.
Apparently Cheryl and the children made a trip to Dollywood yesterday because she has posted some pictures of the children on her Flickr photostream. However, for some legitimate reasons, those pictures are made visible only to Family and Friends who have Flickr accounts and are so designated. So while I can point you to her photostream, you won't see the children's pictures there.
On Monday, October 2, I left town to visit my family in Georgia for a couple of days, but the two-day visit I had planned originally turned into a four-day visit, and I didn't get back to Knoxville until Friday around noon. That's why there were no blog posts last week. I thought about announcing this visit in advance but I generally don't want to make it known that I am out of town for home security reasons.
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