He was a lonely little four year old boy spending the winter of 1929 and 1930 in Pomona California with his forty eight year old mother and fifty three year old father. Then just as surely as the winter ends, spring comes rushing in. It is the first of April and time to make the journey back to Ohio.

That means crossing the Rocky Mountains on narrow rough roads, driving through the sandy desert roads, on through the central plains and home. An older brother Carl takes a bus out to help drive that seven days of travel on what can be a tedious journey in the year 1930, driving a 1927 Chevrolet. Continue reading

After a hurried trip to the Pittsburgh airport, a two and a half hour flight to Tampa, loading everyone and the luggage into a rental car,  well…… It really feels good to pull up beside Gramma’s condo in Bird Bay.

Little Sarah comes dragging a BIG, what looks to Gramma like an army duffle bag, and starts unpacking.  She takes  out a teddy bear, a doll and……I don’t see any clothes. This big suit case is full of her FAVORITE TOYS.  She had told her mother she was all packed ready to go.

I surely do hope my daughter caught that little fact and packed another suit case for Sarah.  AND SHE DID!!!!!
Mothers are nice to have around every now and again!!!!!

One of the first things my daughter Pamela and her husband Tracy want to do on arriving in Florida is feast on the delicious food at their favorite restaurant CHARLIE’S CRAB in St Armands Circle just across the intracoastal bridge by Sarasota.  This restaurant is now named THE CRAB AND FINN.  Maybe you have been there.

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After being married in the Hawaiian Wedding Cave I move from Park Forest, Illinois to Pennsylvania where we move into the lovely home we had purchased pictured above. It is on Karda Drive about half way up Lower Brush Mountain just outside of Hollidaysburg. Continue reading

Have you ever attended a wedding at the Hawaiian Wedding Cave on the Island of Kauai? Would you like to? Well… come along with me on a journey.

Sometime after being widowed, I went on tour to Hawaii. It was January 1971. After returning home, I rented my farm land to a local farmer and moved to Park Forest, Illinois where my daughter Susie lived.

I was very fortunate to be hired in an Oral Surgery office where I worked as a Doctor’s assistant for three Oral Surgeons. After all those years of work on my dairy farm, this seemed like too much fun to be work. And they paid me for having a good time every day. How lucky could I get?? Continue reading