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Happy Holidays and Best
Wishes for the New Year! |
- We took a wonderful honeymoon cruise from Rome to Barcelona.
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We bought a bigger
house
for a very reasonable price which needed an update. It has
three bedrooms, two living rooms, a dining room, and a detached
two-car garage
and workshop. It was built in 1941 in a U-shape around a partially enclosed
patio.
- We sold the old house. The offer came on Sept 11.
- We helped start a Bridge in the Schools lesson program in Albuquerque.
- Steve won Bronze Life Master of the Year in Albuquerque.
- Steve won his first Bridge regional (and another 7 at last count).
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We won four out of five regional Bridge events with the Blooms in Casper,
Wyoming.
- We also went camping with the Blooms in Wyoming, and saw the Bighorns and Yellowstone Park (and Kitty's first buffalo).
- We did a lot of traveling in the motor home seeing some new and old places, including San Diego, Carlsbad Caverns , the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, , Tucson, AZ., and NYC (in October).
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We visited best man David Spahn in Iowa and stopped by the Field of Dreams.
- We visited Aunt Stasi in Washington and got digital photos of the ancestral portraits. Shown is the ancestress whose necklace I wear.
- We sold the Windham house at a nice profit.
- We did volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity.
- Kitty built web sites for the Munson and Thannhauser family genealogies, resulting in contact with about ten new fifth cousins.
- Kitty became the volunteer web master for the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies Cemetery Project: http://www.jewishgen.org/Cemetery
- Kitty’s son, Paul, is applying to do graduate work in Computer Science and is thinking of going into teaching.
- We saw the retired-in-motor-home "winter camp" life-style for seniors in Yuma, AZ (or does that belong in the other list?)
- September 11.
- Our littlest dog, Mountain Girl, got cancer, and we have just spent two months living in the motor home in Fort Collins, CO while she gets treatment at Colorado State said to be the world's best veterinary oncology program.
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It’s cold here.
- Kitty thought she was having a heart attack. It turned out to be a bad gastric problem and she had her gall bladder out (it’s laproscopic and trivial these days).
- Our new home is not quite ready to live in yet (we redid the the electric, the heating/cooling system, the plumbing, knocked two bathrooms together, and still are redoing the kitchen. Its all taking longer than expected)
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We burned out the transmission out on the motor home in the Wyoming mountains
and had
to replace it, (expensively).
Next we blew a front ball joint in Iowa (also expensive) and had a
scary flat tire.
- Kitty’s son Paul doesn’t like his second financial dot-com job on Wall Street as much as he liked the first.
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We gained at least 10 pounds each on that wonderful honeymoon cruise. (Kitty
lost it again).
- Steve thinks Kitty spends too much time on the computer (he’s right).
- Kitty thinks Steve goes to sleep and gets up too early (she’s right).
- We don’t see enough of Kitty’s son, Paul.
- We didn’t get to all the Nationals this year.
- We only went skiing once (or is that an upside item?)
