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Sandy decorates the tree and makes the Christmas card. |
Pat did the outside lights this year. (With a little help from Sandy.) |
Paul and Mark |
Pat still does the church website and we are enjoying our new pastor.
He always gives us a good roadmap for living a spiritual life -- not always
an easy road but a good one. We also have a new choir director and
have music to inspire us, as well. We attended another Marsha Stevens
concert and got to hear a chorus singing Mozart at St. Paul's Church. |
Sandy still has lots of pain with her neck and back but we have continued
the Water Aerobics class three times a week. For several months,
we went to the Silver Divas, Dancin' to the Oldies -- what fun! |
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Pat, Evelyne, Sandy Pat and Sandy |
Swedish Festival in Balboa Park. |
Pat continues to enjoy her Swedish heritage in the local VASA Group.
Sandy joins in whenever she can. We both enjoy the many friends we
have made there. |
Pat does the website for the SDSU Retirement Group. We both participate
in as many activies as we possibly can: lunches, dinners, theaters, picnics,
plus the many Holiday Parites including Valentine's Day gathering, a day
at the Del Mar Races, the Kentucky Derby Day, and Oktoberfest -- Sandy's
personal favorite. |
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The Winner! |
Pat with her home-grown tomatoes. |
Pat is still the gardener around the place and enjoys bringing in the
crops fresh from the garden to the table. Yummy!
Sandy joined the Seaside Scrollers but has only been able to attend
a few meetings because of our travels. She's hoping to get to use
her new Hawk Scroll Saw this coming year. |
Sandy does the newsletter for the San Diego Button Club and now does
their website as well: http://members.cox.net/sdbuttonclub/
(With a lot of help from Pat, of course.) |
Sandy at the Computer |
Ada, Carole, and Pat |
We still enjoy adding to our paperweight collection and seeing our
friends at meetings. We met Drew Ebelhare, glass artist at our last
meeting.
Pat does the website for that group: http://members.cox.net/sdpca/ |
We've also discovered the Oasis classes for seniors. Wow what
fun we've been having. We've taken class in every thing from Diet
, Yoga, drawing, painting, music, language: Richard Lederer from the radio
program A Way With Words (followed by lunch with him), and Digital Photography.
We both learned lots in that last one. |
Richard Lederer and Pat |
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Some of Pat's close-up photography. |
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Pat can even make a fig beetle look good :-) |
Jane, Ronnie, and Pat |
Pat attended Scarsdale High School through the eleventh grade so attended
their reunion which was held at the Renaissance Hotel in White Plains. |
Pat and Carol |
Pat, Wes, and Peter |
Edgewood Elementary School |
The reunion included a tour of Pat's elementary school, Edgewood, as
well as a tour of Scarsdale High School, and a tour of the Rockefeller
Estate. |
Pat attended twelfth grade at Shaker Heights. Her best friend,
Mary Bingham, contacted her about the reunion. We met her at the
hotel, attended a free Cleveland Symphony concert downtown followed by
a fantastic fireworks display, toured Shaker Heights High School, and drove
around taking pictures of our childhood homes. There are lots of pictures
of both reunions on our website: http://sandynpat.com/ |
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Pat, Sandy, and Mary Downtown Cleveland |
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Our annual trek to Hawaii took us to Kailua, on the island of Oahu |
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We had a fun time with friends, sun, and surf. |
Sandy, Rev. Jon, and Pat |
Eddie and his cousins. |
Pat's college (Denison University in Granville, Ohio) has an active
alumni group that meets at homecoming. This year, we were lucky enough
to link up with Pat's cousins, Jim Kingery and Linda Mulligan. |
We went to Jim's home and met his family for the first time. Linda
and her husband Bernie (both professors at Ohio State University) met us
for a late lunch. It was wonderful to see our cousins again. |
Linda, Bernie, Sandy and Pat |
Pat, Jeff, Jim, and Heidi |
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Social Action takes a lot of time and effort. |
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Pat with George McGovern and Madeleine Albright with Pat. |
Yukio the reindeer. See the antlers? |
We wish all of our family and friends the
peace, hope and love of the season along with the happiest of New Years.
Lovingly Pat and Sandy |