van der Goot rose gardens

John, Kathy, Mom and I had a great lunch at Anne & Jerry's, the we went to the van der Goot rose gardens in Franklin Township. Lots of roses and lots of photos. Good thing digital film is cheap :) Here is a link to my Flickr account to view 4 family photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22036136@N07/sets/72157619407293770/ I will post some of the rose photos after I edit and weed thru them.
I was surprised they didn't have the two roses I bought this Spring: the JFK Peace Rose and the Mr. Lincoln.

Four photos

Here are two sets of two photos taken by Anne & Kathy.

Two are of Mom in the new sacristy at St. Al's church. They were taken by Kathy.

The other two were taken during Mom, Anne & Kathy's trip out to see Aunt Jenny.

April milestones

Birthdays:
2- Lisa Cipriano
8- Dotty Meegan Benando
12-Uncle Mickey Cipriano would have been 97
16-Crecia Cipriano
21-Carol Yackel would have been 72
27-Kathleen Rammer
28-Aunt Marie Crawford would have been 91

Anniversaries:
4- Carole & Billy Walsh

I ran into Kathy Covone

Hey, I ran into Kathy Covone at our Kiwanis' Police Officer of the Year dinner. I haven't spoken with her in about 40 years. Her family lived next door to us until 1969 when they moved. I thought she stayed in Jackson and graduated with us but she told me that she did her senior year elsewhere and graduated from there.
Her brother Larry is ill. Johnny is fine and so is her sister. (Darn, but I remembered her name last week but can't recall it now.)

March milestones

Birthdays:
4 - Uncle Pete would have been 73
5 - Aunt Cahterine would have been 84
7 - Barbara Gocinski
17 - Uncle Vinny would have been 80
22 - Ray O'Donnell
24 - Tim & John Meegan

Happy b'day Elyse

(Shawna, Elyse & Leraine)

From Shawna:

elyse and i are both at Florida State, GO NOLES! Leraine and Danny are in nsb and they bought a house....fixing it up daily. weather is beautiful here in florida. elyse just had her 23rd birthday. attached is a pic from it.

We get snow!

We had the biggest snow storm of the year dump about 11 inches of snow on us between last night and this morning. The first wave started flurrying around 8 p.m. When I woke this morning 6 a.m. there was about 8 inches of snow out there. By 6:30 I was out shoveling and about 75 minutes later had the front walk, the driveway, the front and back porch and a portion of the back patio shoveled. There was a message on my phone saying the library was closed for the day. It started to snow again and we had an additional 3 to 4 inches by the time that finished around Noon. After a little bit I went back outside to clean up some of the new snow and helped a couple of neighbors out with their shoveling, then it was back inside for a big breakfast. I went out twice more and warmed up the car.


It's supposed to get cold out here tonight but the snow is over for a while. Maybe till the end of the year? I mean, Spring is only 3 weeks away, right?