Visiting the Catskills
Soon we'll be heading to a cabin in the Catskills for a week. We felt that a fall trip was called for and while we've been numerous times to the Adirondacks, never the Catskills. Found a cabin in Clarysville that looks nice. Clarysville cabin Won't do any trout fishing ourselves but we've tried to talk the Van Burens and Bayers into joining us.
Save rodents!
Leaving church we found the fire department trying to help an animal stranded in a tree. Joyce walked over to learn that they and the SPCA thought there was a nest of baby squirrels whose mother had been run over by a car. None were found. I'm not a squirrel fan (they're chewing on my plastic shed) so was happy that they found nothing. To me it's like trying to save a nest of rats. Interesting how most people wouldn't agree.
Joe Bayer Pictures
My sister, Meg, texted an old picture of our father at a social event, probably a wedding celebration. Dad was incredibly adept socially and the picture shows that. He was Irish, you know. 😁
That prompted me to go looking in old prints from 50 years ago. I found a couple on the occasion of daughter Suzanne’s baptism. We were still in Arkansas and my main prof, Jack Marr, attended our party. Here’s one with dad holding court. Marr was sitting on the floor. We rented a cute little house with very limited space. Dad died in 1974 at the young age of 55.
2019-2020 School Year
This year we have three in college (Dakota, Maddy, and Grace), two in high school (Dewey and Charlie), and one in grammar school (Joe). Dakota attends Buffalo State (where Marc is a librarian), Maddy and Grace are at Canisius College (where I am a Professor Emeritus), Dewey and Charlie are at Canisius High School, and Joe is in 7th grade at Sts. Peter and Paul.
Rockin with Charlie and Joe
Charlie and Joe had their yearly recital today at the studio where they take lessons. Here they collaborate on a Chuck Berry hit from 1968.
Irish Tenors
The three-person group joined the Buffalo Philharmonic last night and we and Zann attended. Tons of Irish and Christmas songs and our predominantly Irish blood (according to genetic testing) resonated big time. If you haven't heard them, here's a YouTube of them doing Danny Boy, which naturally was one of the songs they did last night. Oh, and today is Joy's and Dew's sister Mary's birthday.
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