Hanging Out After Pie

Relaxing With a Fire

Playing Fetch

Michael Feeding Himself Spaghetti

Kind of.

Our View

This is the view off the balcony of our resort. There's a lake down there somewhere.

We made it!

Lunchin' in Memphis

Mobile Blogging on Vacation

Trying out blogging from my cell phone so I can keep you up to date on our vacation.

Our New Blog

I have had my old family news web site since before blogs were called blogs. It will be sad to see it go, but it is time to retire it. When I started it, most of my family members were just starting a tenuous relationship with email, let alone making their own web site. Now, almost everyone who was a regular poster to the family news web site has a blog of their own.

The common technology surpassed me, and I wasn't able to devote the time I needed to maintain the site up to the standards I wanted. This new blog has the added advantage of being much easier for Charla to contribute to.

I've tried to maintain the information that many of you came to the site for. The sidebar on the right has many good sources of information, from the most recent posts to all of your blogs, to the current time and weather for family members scattered across the country. The contact information is now in a password-protected spreadsheet that everyone in the family can edit, in order to keep their own information up to date. Hopefully, this format will be easier to use for things like automatically printing Christmas card address labels and the like.

I know some of you are still reluctant to fully embrace the blogging revolution, so I will continue to post news for anyone without their own blogs.

Enjoy!

Poem

Submitted by Frank:

Here is my latest poem that I wrote Wednesday morning while awakening:

Rooms to Let
Vacant eyes
Vacant arms
Vacant heart
Vacant life

I am so sorry that I have such a hard time communicating my loved ones. Please forgive me, I think of everyone everyday.

Discovering Email

Submitted by Marsie:
 
I was recently looking through a box of some old stuff and found a letter from Karl that he wrote while we were both in college. It's dated October 1993. I had to chuckle when I read this and thought it would be fun to share.
He wrote:

I have an account at the UNIX computer here and we have a direct connection down to ASU. If you're a student, it's usually free to get an account and then we could send e-mail to each other for the low, low price of nothing! It's faster than the post office, too! If we're logged on at the same time, then we can even talk just like we're on a telephone! Pretty cool, huh?...Believe me, it is very fun, I've even written to some people in Iowa...I'm sort of biased towards this stuff because I'm a computer science major.

Sorry, Karl I think I was too intimidated by the idea at the time! I think it was another few years before I got an email account!
And now it's just a part of every day life!