Saturday, June 30, 2007
"Oh, say!" (as Anna would say)
Anna, a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, modestly but proudly wore her veteran's medal. At 86, Anna is slowing down a little, but we bet she'd still beat everyone to the basement in case of a tornado warning, purse in hand. She's our heroine, our Anna.
At the Pepins', pomp and the prom
Nathan, Christine and Ben Pepin all graduated from high school this month. (Nathan and Christine went to Goodhue, Ben to Red Wing). A few photos from their festivities, taken by Aunt Florence: 1. Nathan and his date, Kaitlin. 2. Christine and her date, Willie (are we hallucinating, or is that our very own Anna standing between them? Anna crashed the prom??!!); 3. Ben at the graduation party. Congrats to them all (Anna too)!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Grrrrl power
Smooth operators
Tara gets a haircut
When you can't beat 'em, join 'em
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Noah on his 18th birthday
Izzbee and the kitty-cat
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Just another day at Stately Wayne Manor
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Noah graduates from high school
Noah graduated from Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope tonight (June 7, 2007). The ceremony was held at the school's football field, but not before the crowd had to be evacuated into the school for a sudden squall. But the rain passed, a rainbow came out, and the ceremony was relaxed and fun. Noah's Uncle Chris, Auntie Mary and cousins Zachary, Moriah, Hannah and Elizabeth were there to see it.
Photos, from top: One: Noah with cousins Zachary, M. and little E., who fell asleep, and Uncle Chris. Two: Noah with pals Chris, Kiel, John, Joe and Ryan. Three: Noah with friend and Quill co-editor David. Four: Noah with his brown-eyed girl, Tara. Five: Last and not least, Noah with his very proud mom, the scrapblog editor.
Noah will go to the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the fall. His mom hopes he continues to enjoy life, people, baseball, music, art, literature and all things beautiful and good. He's a fine young man.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Alverna's favorite comedian: The Great Dane
Aunt Alverna would have loved YouTube. This clip of Danish comedian Victor Borge and his son doing the "Page-turner" segment would have been her favorite. Check it out.
Victor Borge was born in Denmark, the son of accomplished musicians. His real name was Borge Rosenbaum, and when he started taking comedic shots at Hitler in 1933, he was in deadly territory. Luckily for everyone, he was able to flee on the last passenger ship that made it out of Denmark after the Nazi occupation. In the United States, he learned English, became a citizen, adapted his comedy to American audiences and lived happily ever after. He died in December 2000.
Uncle Joe featured in Madison newspaper column
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Pre-Lamars
A grand dad and granddad
Grandma and grandkids
All dressed up in Old Frontenac
Fish food
Raspberry Island express
Don't try this on your home
Most advice about dealing with ice dams includes this warning: "NEVER, EVER USE AN AX ON YOUR ROOF!" In other words, don't do what Uncle Bill would have done. Here he whacked away cheerfully at roof ice with a large hatchet as cousin Chris watched and learned. Apparently Uncle Bill hadn't seen too many ice dams in his youth in North Carolina.
Winter sports
Back in the 1970s, the Old Frontenac field's hillside didn't have any buckthorn on it, and made a great skiing and sledding hill. Cousin Janie was the only good skier; the other cousins preferred the dangerous tobaggon. Every cousin was injured at least once on the hillside, but that never stopped them from going back.
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