December Holiday Charm Luncheon

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Thanksgiving 2013

A lot to be thankful for. It was nice to get to meet Lorri's friend, Sebastian.

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My sister, Joyce, invited us up to see her handiwork of the past several months at the Eastburn farmhouse in Benton County and it was really quite a striking transformation. The weather was partly sunny, but still a very eye-watering cold 28 degrees and windy outside. However once inside the …

September 27, 2013: Jane's best friend, McKinzie, was married to Justin today. Jane was Maid of Honor. They had a very nice ceremony at Valley Vista in Greenwood, with McKinzie's father officiating and Step-Father walking her down the aisle.

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Sept 8, 2013: My cousin Dave & Pat came up for a visit with friends and family. Craig & Deb; MaryBeth; Kris & Mark. It's always good when we can get a chance to reconnect.

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September 7, 2013: Janet and I along with several of our college classmates were able to help one of our favorite professors celebrate his retirement from the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He and his wife, Elaine, were the ones that took us …

Eastburn Farm 1974-1999: Here are pictures of many Eastburn Farm events starting in 1974 and going through 1999. For the most part, these are scanned photos. There are also a few just Brandt family photos. This is pretty much everything my parents had in their photo album of the farm …

July 1974: This is quite a long time ago. Dennis, Dan, Wil (Bill) and I signed up to participate in one of the early WNAP raft races down the White River. As I was reminded by the pictures, we had a glorious day of floating down the river that ended …

June 15th-21st, 2013: Janet's sister, Claudia, was able to come for a nice visit. We celebrated Father's Day on the 16th, hosted a party for friends on the 18th and then traveled to Columbus, IN to tour the Miller house and on to Bloomington to spend time with Charles and …

May 30th to June 7th, 2013: Canadian Rockies. As Janet is always very fond of saying, "Canada is a big country!" We flew to Calgary via Toronto with our good friends Don and Julie and spent one night there. Then we drove on to the Rockies and stayed at a …

May 25th, 2013: Ron and Julie hosted a House Concert featuring a performance by the Coffee Zombies. This was also the debut of their new album called Percolatin'. What a fun filled evening with wonderful music, as well as tasty snacks and drinks.

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With the permission of the musicians …

Yosemite May 11th-May 18th: Chris, Ron and Arthur took a trip to Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia to experience the Sierra Nevada. Ron and I flew through Denver to San Francisco, then rented an SUV for a 3 hour drive to Yosemite. We arrived on Saturday, so got to spend …

May 6, 2013: Dufus IV was seen hanging out on his bridge.

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April 9, 2013: Yesterday our home well pump seized up after nearly 30 years of service. It's an expensive proposition to pull a pump no matter what. So we had C & J Well Co. come and take care of the problem. Kinda' hard to live in a house without any …

March 31, 2013: The stars aligned in a particular way so that we decided to celebrate Easter on Saturday in lieu of Sunday. First, we helped my Nephew Will and his wife Stephanie celebrate the first birthday of their son Benjamin on Saturday from noon to 2 pm. You could …

Today it's official, but last Sunday we had friends and family over to help me celebrate my 60th birthday. Janet made a wonderful dinner featuring a few of my favorite foods and everyone brought some great cards and gifts to help me remember the day. Time marches on.

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Nothing better that Florida in February. Janet and I took a few days off to visit with her Mom in sunny Naples. The weather was great and the beach was an easy 3 block stroll from her apartment. Not bad at all.

We arrived on Sunday, Feb 3rd, 2013, and …

December 30, 2012: The day after Christmas, we had a minor blizzard that dumped 8 inches of snow. Then, Friday night we go a couple more inches just to freshen things up. The sun finally returned and made for some nice winter snow scenes. Just try and do that in …

December 25, 2012: We celebrated Christmas day at home with Charles, Tessa and Patricia. Jane, Brett and Emmaleigh came over about 11 am and we all shared many presents. Patricia and Tessa prepared a wonderful Christmas dinner. It was a very good Christmas just ahead of the blizzard of 2012 …

December 23, 2012: We had my sister, Joyce, and her family over for a Sunday afternoon pre-Christmas party and it was great to see everyone. This is the first Christmas for Benjamin Freeman so it was a very special time. Needless to say, there are a lot of baby boy …

Saturday; November 3, 2012: Along with my sister Sally, this is Brett's daughter Emmaleigh's birthday. Brett's father and mother were able to drive down for Hammond, as were his brother Chris and wife Janet (nice names!) along with their two daughters, Grace and Kayla. We were able to have everyone …