Casey became my aunt the moment that Ruth and I said “I do”. I’d met her several months before at the Van Bruggen family gathering during the Christmas season of 1970. She was the youngest sister of Ruth’s father’s family and the only one without a husband and children. I liked her the moment we …
Category: Family
Firsts
Ruth and I took Brady and Eva out for breakfast last Saturday. We picked them up at Papa and Grandma’s house. (That’s Lindsay’s parents.) We planned to eat at a local mom and pop restaurant that we haven’t been to in over thirty years. Lindsay’s parents live on Folks Road. We headed west on …
The Hippies Are Gone
The hippies pulled out of town yesterday morning at 9:30 10:00 11:00 11:08. It’s hard to believe that they were only here sixteen weeks. If you use a day planner, that’s 112 days. All you math geniuses out there know that converts to three months, two weeks, six days, fourteen hours, nineteen minutes and …
Some Kind of Crazy
Ruth and I hung out with Brady and Eva last week-end. Ruth arrived on Thursday evening and I arrived the next day. Before I rolled into town on Friday, Ruth drove Brady to a neighboring town for a gathering of seventh and eighth grade students. Brady is going to be a freshman in the fall …
Tony Jerome
Biology was one of the areas of study during my junior high school science classes. One of our assignments was to select one of several topics supplied by the teacher and develop a comprehensive report based upon biology. I chose to study twins. We had several sets of twins on both sides of our family. …
Ma and Pa Tebo
My dad referred to his parents as Ma and Pa. I knew them as Grandma and Grandpa Tebo. George Gabriel Tebo was born in 1875 and Mary Christine Ritter eleven years later. They raised a family of six girls and one boy. The girls were Nettie, Katherine, Elizabeth (Dutch) Bernadette (Bern), Julia (Jewel) and Gertrude …
Ruth E.
Ruth gave birth to our third and final child, Michael, forty-one years ago today. We spent the 4th of July week-end with Michael and his wife, Kate, in Reno. I had never been to Reno or Lake Tahoe so this was a grand new experience. While we were there Michael received a phone call from …
Houston! Are you kiddin me?
Ruth and I arrived at the “this is where people go when all hell breaks loose desk” about ninety seconds behind Brady. There were three service agents at the counter tending to three customers. Brady was number two in the “wait line” and there were at least a dozen people behind him. There were several …
Houston! We have more problems.
Our two days in Houston last week-end went well. Brady is a souvenir collector when we visit baseball stadiums. He’s never been shut out. He gets a ball or two and, upon several occasions, autographs from players. He has to work to do it, but he loves it. The secret is to arrive as soon …
Houston! We have a problem.
Ruth and I took Brady to Houston to see the Astros play last week-end. That’s “our thing”. We visit different ball parks. Last year we went to California to see games at Dodger Stadium and Angel Stadium. The year before we visited Chicago’s Comiskey Park. This year we saw two games at Houston’s Minute Maid …