SATURDAY; JUNE 10, 2006: Since Indianapolis was able to host the National Needlework Convention, Janet took the opportunity to invite her friends from Martingale over to our house for dinner.

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MONDAY; JUNE 5th, 2006: Janet and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary by taking a day trip to Cincinnati, Jungle Jim's and Metamora. We enjoyed a beautiful day of sunshine.

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TUESDAY, MAY 30th, 2006: Juri's other cousin (Uncle?), Festim, flew in from Dallas for a quick visit between regular and summer school classes. He said he is on track to graduate next December with a major in Finance. Had a game of pick up basketball. Juri got into a little …

MEMORIAL DAY: May 29th, 2006, Monday: We drove to Springfield, IL to visit our college friends Bill and Colette and see Chuck P. who is in hospice at St. John's with an inoperable brain tumor. We had a good visit and glad to have the time to reconnect and reflect …

We got together at Ron & Julie's to celebrate our Mothers and Mom's favorite recipies. A real carb feast. Meat loaf, barbecue, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, asparagus, garlic and cheese biscuits, walnut tort ...... yum! Everyone brought old family photos to share.

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We went car shopping so that Charles could replace his Civic. Too bad ... all Charles could find was a Miata that was one year newer and 9,000 fewer miles than his Civic. Tough break. It had hail damage fromr that terrible April 2nd storm, but who cares? Spring is …

Ron and Julie have started teaching a couples folk dance which is a lot of fun. First, they're excellent teachers ... and second ... it really is a good time. They had 16 couples participate, which I thought was a very good number. Ron is getting the hang of his laptop computer …

SUNDAY MARCH 26, 2006: Although it was a few days late (actual birthday on the 21st), we celebrated Juri's 24th birthday and his first birthday here in the USA. Jane was clever enough to get some of those candles that relight themselves, so it was fun to see Juri's reaction …

March 19th,2006: MURDER MYSTERY DINNER at the BENTON HOUSE a.k.a. Roadkill. "The Good, the Bad and the Guilty." All I can say is that Elvira did it; but we didn't find that out until some time after imbibing in a great quantity of wine and enjoying a …

FLORIDA Mid-February 2006: We made a quick trip to Florida to help my Father celebrate his 86th Birthday and try to feel some mid-winter warm weather. We were sucessful on the birthday part, but not on the weather. Florida experienced a cold snap that lingered 'til the day we left …

Christmas 2005: Celebrated Christmas Eve and Joyce's . We were blessed to have all the kids home this year, which made for an especially good time. Best wishes to everyone in 2006.

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Wednesday, December 21st: Had Christmas dinner with friends. Each couple made gingerbread houses afterwards.

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Arthur suggested we make up limericks as a group activity, which turned out to be great fun. Each person started a limerick on a piece of paper, then passed it on to the person on …

November 24th: Thanksgiving Dinner. We all had a lot to be thankful for. I was grateful to spend Thanksgiving with my children, who have all decided to make Indinapolis their home, too. And it's always special when Grandpa can join us for the holidays.

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NOVEMBER 24TH: Happy Thanksgiving Day. We started out a great Thankgiving by going to a great event --the 50th Annual BILLIE CREEK / KUHN RAIL FARM TRAPSHOOT. This was one of cousin Chuck's favorite happenings and I know he was there is spirit and well represented. I think there had to …

November 7, 2005: Jane and Juri closed on their house! The previous owner was obviously not an outdoors person because the brick chimney was covered in mature poison ivy. How nice. Of course that ivy was the first thing Jane had to tackle and the ivy ended up winning. She …

October 30, 2005: Jane & Juri have an accepted offer on a house and they hope to close in a couple of weeks. It's a really nice neighborhood and a really nice house. It's just east of Pleasant Run Golf Course.

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Saw a hawk sitting on Juri's bridge today. So now I guess it we'll have give it another name -- "Hawk's Bridge".

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Sunday; October 9, 2005: Fall CID NMRA Layout Tour

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