"New" Photos

Hi All - I've posted another bunch of photos on the "Photos over the Years" album. this bunch picks up on our 1970 trek east to the DC area where I went to work in the Corps Headquarters. It ends with our first winter in our home in Reston, VA. At that time Ann was 12 and Lisa was 10.

I'm Back !!!

Hi All:

I came home yesterday as John said. I'm doing pretty good, the back pain is better, must be the cortozone. the leg is still a bit weak, wants to buckle sometimes. They sent me home with a walker, whoopie. I have to use it whenever I go out and around the house too sometimes. Love it, Not. But I guess it's for my own good. At least it's tempoary!!!! Like someone said aging isn't for sissies :-) I'm just glad to be home.. John did a great job of being Mr. Mom. I know it wasn't easy, atleast I'm home early enough to do the bills LOL...

Thanks for all your good thoughts and prayers, I really appreciate all of them.. I know things will get better. I'm too rotten to go bad HaHa.
Love to all, Jan

Jan is home

Thank you all for your thoughts. Jan is home and seems to be doing pretty good. She is still on some pretty heavy pain meds but will be off them soon we hope. She is obviously weak but in good spirits. Good to have her home again.. Thanks again. JOHN

Dinner at Chuck & Lisa's

Hi all,

I wanted to share the below picture of Chuck tossing the dough for the best pizza we have ever eaten to say nothing about the fact that he is so skilled at tossing it in the air! He and Lisa came up with great flavors including salad, white clam, etc. Definitely not your usual mundane stuff. This was taken over Christmas with Misty and Andi and other friends. We all had a great time!

Mary Anne

Pizza Anyone? 

View from my apartment window

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the long quiet period. The holidays and work combined to make me a little over-extended. I'm glad to see that some of you are still faithfully posting, though!

I'm off to read through everything I missed over the last couple of months, but I'll be back soon with more to day!

xxoxx

Update on Jan

Hi all. Well, good news. There will be no surgery and the doctor says there is absolutely no evidence of any kind of growth. What he thinks she has is a small herniated disc in the region of the L4. This area is where the nerves for both legs start out and down the legs. The put the MRI and the Mylogram up together and he could not see anything that he would consider operating on at this time.. They are going to give her a shot of steroids in that area and he says he is confident that it will take care of the problem. All the pain and the leg buckling under her was caused by the pressure on the nerve.. We will keep you informed but hopefully the next one you get will be from Jan... Thanks for all the care. JOHN

Golden age i wonder. lol

Hi all, this seemed to be a good place to inform the whole family about a little medical problem Jan has now.. Last wednesday we put her in the hospital with intense pain in her right hip. They did an MRI and it was not really definitive but it did show a problem in the L4 and L5 area that they feel is either a herinated disc or a growth of somekind... they are going to do more tests today and i will keep you all updated here it that is alright. The test today is a dye test that will show what is the problem. I appears to be something that can be handled at this time but jan is tired of the pain and just wants to get it taken care of as do I and the dog and cat. Take care all. John

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANDI

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday Andi. Congratulations on reaching your majority. I hope your are doing something special today. Your Grandmother and I are looking forward to seeing you in February when we are back there in Northern Virginia. Again, Happy Birthday. Love, Grandpa.

Hi everyone,

We are in the midst of our first real nor’easter of the season. We have about 22 inches of new snow and it is expected to continue all morning. I love it. We are safe and warm with a fire and plenty of good food. Somehow the paper boy made it out this morning. Nothing is better than a Sunday morning with the NY Times and a beautiful snow storm. By tomorrow this will all be just a sloppy mess, so we will have to enjoy today.

Today truly is one of those beautiful New England winter days, but that is not always the case. Every morning this week the temperature has been below zero. I check the studio with trepidation each day but so far feel nothing but relief to see I still have water dribbling away as I had left it the night before. No burst pipes to contend with yet. This all leaves us thinking longingly of sun and sand. I spend a lot of time on line looking for destinations. It looks like Honduras will win out for late February.

Mom and Dad were here for Christmas and we spoke a lot of finding a way to gather as a clan. It would be wonderful if everyone would consider a reunion of some sort. Perhaps if we all thought of a time and or place that would fit we could get this ball rolling. Andi is still a college student so our lives still revolve around an academic schedule.

Speaking of Andi, she turns 21 today. I am finding it hard to believe that my youngest child is truly an adult now. She is a lovely person. Like her sister, she is very bright, and very beautiful. They both make us very proud.

I hope that we can all continue to communicate on this site. I would love to hear more about everyone’s lives. Mary, I think you should meet me in Arizona for some hiking........I hope you are feeling better John........Chuck has just gone out to plow and I suppose I will have to bundle up and do some shoveling soon. Love to all, L.

More Old Photos

Hi - I found some old subminatures taken in the 1965 - 1966 time frame. So I updated the "Photos over the Years" again. Ann and Lisa - do you know who the other kids are at the party on the El Caminito patio?

Another Installment of Photos Over the Years

Hi All - I've posted the fourth installment of "Photos Over the Years." This installment covers our last three years in Livermore and the beginning of our trek to the Nation's Capitol so I could go to work in the Corps' Headquarters. Unfortunately, the termites ruined all the slides from our honeymoon, the birth of both Ann and Lisa and family activities in Sacramento, Porterville, Ione, Fort Worth and the first two years in Livermore. This is a sadness for MaryAnne and I. Perhaps we may find some prints from that period some day.