for Tuesday August 3

At the reunion: Steve and Maureen, Dan, Frank and Joanie.

for Monday August 2nd

Pictures of Kelsey's birthday dinner in San Diego. Yesterday was her brother Joe's birthday in Virginia. One of my presents from Joe was a cell phone from him to Joanie and myself..

for Sunday August 1st

Young Joseph shown mother and dad.

He looks like a real runner, lean and hard. Both feet off the ground.

for Saturday July 31st

Steve and Mo at the reunion.

for Friday July 30th

Jeanni, Emma, and Paddy visit Joe's grave. I think Kelsey was there too.

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Joe's. 2.12 Birthday remembered 1961--1975. Picture above was taken at our apartment in San Diego, while I was working for Ferry Bros.

He was such a bright happy kid. A joy to all our lives. He has been gone 31 years and I think of him almost daily. I remember his birth all too well. I just about had a disaster. We had an old VW Beetle. It didn't have a gas gauge at all. Just a lever you flip when the car ran out of gas. The lever gave the car another quart+ of gas. (10 miles?) Mary Ella waited until the very last minute to go to the hospital. About 1/2 way there I happen to look at the gas lever. It had already been flipped. We were almost on fumes. We made it to the hospital. She was rushed away. I found the waiting room and sat down with a room full of pacing, smoking fathers. I few minutes later the doctor called me out with news about a wonderful baby boy. "Come back in an hour and you can visit your wife". (It was decades later till husbands didn't wait out side). During that hour I went to gas station and filled up.

I shutter to think I might have unexpectedly been in a VW delivery room as the doctor. Joe and Mary Ella would have lived through all this, but I would have aged quickly. I kept that tiny gas tank full from then on.

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for Thursday July 29th

Mary Kelsey's Graduation last May? Thanks Jeanni for the pictures.

for Wednesday July 28th

Brendan shows off a gift tee shirt. I guess the hat has a story too.

Here is our chef trying out deep fried Twinkees at the faire. He said they were great.

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Here is our runner, Joe, in the middle of the pack.