A Special 40th Anniversary Night!!

The featured picture at the top of this post was taken from the rear of the Beverly Presbyterian Church on August 23, 1975 the night Kathleen Anne Clarke and I were married! It is hard to believe that 40 years have passed since that night! They always say that time flies when you’re having fun and for the most part we’ve had fun, oh we’ve had our share of sorrows, the deaths of our parents, particularly Kathy’s mother who died at the age of 48 from breast cancer, losses of favorite Aunts and Uncles, but those sorrows have been more than made up for by our four children, although much of the fun was at the expense of Dad, now that fun comes from our grandchildren Zoe and Oliver. Yesterday was a pretty nice 40th anniversary day. I started the day with a pretty good run although it was slightly messed up when I accidentally turned off my GPS tracking app when I turned off the music. But I did get through a solid three miles at an overall pace of just around 11:00/mile. After the run I went to Target where I did listen to the album that was to be the soundtrack for the run the latest from Royal Hunt. The album did become the soundtrack of today’s run so I will write about it tonight or tomorrow! When I came back from Target, I suggested to Kathy that we call the kids and see if they could…

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Oliver and Zoe and the Easter Bunny!

A Visit to Meet the Easter Bunny Brings Different Reactions from Oliver and Zoe So Ms. Yin and Mr. Yang, known respectively as our grandchildren Zoe and Oliver both went to see the Easter bunny. As usual, they both had very different reactions. The calm and cool Miss Zoe maintained her calm and cool demeanor and Oliver was just a little upset, mostly at those big furry hands!   Of course Oliver’s reaction could have been anticipated considering how much he loved Santa!   and Zoe’s reaction to Santa? Ho Ho Hum!!   As I think back about Easter with our children, I remember one of our traditions was to hide plastic eggs around our yard. The eggs were filled with either candy or coins! Here’s a picture of my two sons Nicholas and Andrew at Easter with my wife’s Uncle Jim……. And here’s Andrew inspecting one of the eggs. It’s a shame that Mr. Oliver looks nothing like his daddy isn’t it!!    But then if his Daddy looked like he did one Easter time when he worked at Waldenbooks. Oliver may not want to have anything to do with him……..   So I hope that everyone has a Happy Easter tomorrow and no Oliver a big furry handed Easter bunny will not be visiting your house tonight, leaving all kinds of goodies!! Now maybe if we told Zoe that Elmo was visiting tonight and bringing her treats we’d get a smile like this from her!! Happy Special 1st Easter to…

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