With the Major, Q-Bee, and the B Squad here for the Fourth, we had a nice family barbeque party at Grandma and Gichan’s house.  There were cousins running around outside, playing ball… … though some would rather have kept napping. When dusk fell, the need to light things afire could not be denied. Tad alternated […]

We were taking so many pictures yesterday because of family being together, that I nearly forgot to snap one of all the cousins together!  After all, it’s the second year in a row that these cousins have spent the Fourth of July together! So, here they were last year, in Hawaii… … and here they […]

Facebook saw fit to remind me that Thumper spent his very first Memorial Day at a baseball game. And it was his very first game, too! He even got to go on the field!  Sort of. The things you can get away with when your aunt is the ballgirl… Now we need to pick a […]

I finally got to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for the last couple of years, but have been getting sidetracked by baseball games.  And by side trips to Utah. Ane and I attended the Memorial Day service at Evergreen Washelli Veterans Memorial Cemetery.  My grandfather, great-uncle, and great-grandmother are all interred at […]