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09/03/19 05:06 PM #2689    

 

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

 

 

 

 

Every place has its disasters!

 


09/03/19 06:58 PM #2690    

 

Jim Cejka

Right on Terri. As a recently rehabilitated ex-Californian, I'm not sure yet how to handle natural(?) disasters that aren't fire and smolke, or on shakey ground. Hopefully, I'm never too old to learn. 


09/04/19 01:34 PM #2691    

 

Kenneth Pallaske

Happy birthday to all of my fellow classmates. Unfortunately,  I am unable to attend. Have a great time. I will be with you in spirit.


09/08/19 05:07 PM #2692    

 

Garry Sellers

I just got a note with silly quotes.  One said, "My fondest memory of my childhood is not having back problems."  Substitute whatever ails you for "back problems."  While you're breaking bread with friends at the 75th birthday party, I'll be trying out a newly installed hip.  Hope you guys have as much fun as me!

eIlovelucy Ricky GIF - Ilovelucy Ricky Ricardo GIFs          Injured Blood GIF - Injured Blood Hospitalized GIFs

 


09/08/19 09:48 PM #2693    

 

Jim Cejka

Garry,

If I remember correctly, through the course of this collection of historical and personal data, known as the "Message Forum," over the last several years, you have mentioned numerous implanted metal objects about your person. It seems you have more metal in your body than a modern car. I don't think Steve or Jamie had that much of a collection. 


09/09/19 11:45 AM #2694    

 

Lauren Dieterich

I had planned on attending our mass birthday party. But, alas it's not to be. After my last plane flight, I don't think that I can handle spending almost 4 hours not being able to move more than my head and hands. That's how cramped the seats are for me. The only break that I had was to use the phone booth that is called a restroom on a plane. Used to be, I could go on a four flight without using the facilities. My prostate says that I have to go every 2 to 3 hours. I don't do 4 day road trips any more either.

   I have a calcified prostate ( same effect as an enlarged prostate ) The Doctors founded that when checking my gall bladder, which I no longer have. That was last year. This year, every time that I saw my Doctor, he found something else. I have COPD, we have to keep an eye on that. Then I had an echocariogram. My mitral heart valve leaks, we have to keep an eye on that; and, that valve replacement is major surgery and last but not least is arthritis in my back.

  Garry, I should be a bionic man like you; but, so far I've been lucky. Thank God for ibuprofen. If I live long enough, I'll need ankle, knee, hip and maybe shoulder replacement surgery. 20 years ago, I was told that I'd need knee replacement; but, to wait until the pain couldn't be controled.

   The reason for my last plane flight would be the only reason for any future flights. I wish that I wasn't writing this. It was for my sons Celebration of Life. He was in Maine for a job and fell into the river, next to the job. this was in April. They found his body 5 weeks later ( upstream ? ) on his birthday. You're not supposed to outlive your kids.

All in all, this has been the worst summer of my life. 


09/16/19 04:16 PM #2695    

 

Jim Cejka

OK. OK, I can't take the suspense any longer. Ain't nobody going to report on the the big Friday night fish fry and 75 birthdays party? Some of us were at least there in spirit (or we were in spirits and thinking we were there, whatever). At least, where are this year's incriminating pictures?


09/16/19 08:05 PM #2696    

 

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Jim,

I'm sure Trudy will be posting pictures soon. We all had a lovely, festive time.

We missed you!


09/17/19 02:34 PM #2697    

 

Jim Cejka

Yeah Jeanne. It sounded like fun, and fun is good. We're still tied up unpacking from our recent move. Seems like it takes longer every time. 

I can handle the 75 thing, and figure we can get older and, if lucky, reach 75. What I have trouble with is accepting that those people that we watched and grew up with also got older, or in some cases, gone. I mean, Opie, Annette, Rickie and David, Illya Kuryakin, the Hamm's Beer bears, to me can't get old or change, they're still stuck in the same brain cell they got put into 60-70 years ago.  


09/17/19 06:02 PM #2698    

 

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

The 75th birthday party was so much fun!  Great to see OLD friends!  The food was delicious and the games were fun.  I must admit that it is hard to believe that we are so old now.  Young minds & old bodies!


09/19/19 03:20 PM #2699    

 

Jim Cejka

Barb,

Oh, boo. We haven't had a Friday night fish fry since we were back for the 55th. Here now in South Carolina, we get shrimp and grits. Not quite the same.


09/20/19 10:38 AM #2700    

 

Lauren Dieterich

Here in Bullhead City, AZ it's Friday what? None of the church's have fish fry's either.


09/21/19 11:59 AM #2701    

 

Melody Jones (Parker)

St. Stephens Catholic church between 50th and 51st St, between Marion and Hope. One Friday every month, fresh fried perch with french fries and cole slaw served family style; "all you cen eat!"

Actually speaking of perch, our family fished for perch off the railway trestle over Green Bay in the summer when we would go visiting grandparents in Marinette.  Talk about "good old days"!

We would catch about 4-5 dozen fish, dad would skin and gut them, grandma tossed them in flour and  fried them in a cast iron pan with plenty of real butter-and we would finish them off in one dinner!  (Funny thing about having type 2 diabetes is I am not limited to fats in my diet, so I have gone back to cooking with real butter and am appreciating the full flavor.) (There is something about the genes of  my ancestors from Norway that prevents high LDL.)smiley

Here in North Carolina there are three restaurants that serve fried perch, moderately priced.  Tried one of them and there is no comparison to my childhood dinners; very disappointing.


09/22/19 11:16 AM #2702    

 

Jim Cejka

Melody, those were the days - every church, Legion post, and whoever had a Friday night fish fry. 

My father always took his two weeks vacation in July or August and we'd go "up North" (Wautoma) to a cottage for fishing. We'd stock up and fill the freezer for the rest of the year. That was when the lakes actually had quantities of fish that were safe to eat. Later, as an adult and retiree, the fish we caught were covered with black spots that looked like mold. Officially, there were supposed to be ok to eat, but it sure didn't look like it.

Oh well, shrimp and grits may not be all that bad, at least there are places around here that offer cheddar cheese flabored grits. 


09/22/19 12:47 PM #2703    

 

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

We're feeling sorry for all of you living in those incessantly sunny spots that don't provide a respectable Friday night fish fry. Up here (in the dark grey area of Terry's map labeled "F this" ), there's no shortage of great Friday dinners featuring perch, walleye, or Lake Huron whitefish. I guess that's our reward for braving out the interminable winters. 

Terry, I loved your memories of the space program -  you were really in the thick of it! Your description of the garlic aroma fits our garden to a "T". Years ago my brother's wife sent us some from her garden, and I planted it. The stuff is more prolific than dandelions, and I'm still pulling it out of every flower garden on our property. We could have made pesto for the entire Midwest! Even more delicious than the cloves are the early spring "scapes", when they're still curly.

Dearest Garry, we hope your new hip is settling in nicely, so you can get back out and distinguish yourself on the greens in some ridiculous-looking golf pants. We're still managing with our original models, with the help of ice packs and the hot tub after my gardening or Karsten's tennis, but it's only a question of time. 

Fall is in the air, and when the colors begin to turn, the leaf-peepers won't be far behind. We'll be at our local lighthouse museum in two weeks to welcome them, including a cruise ship coming all the way from Germany. We've encountered German tourists in some of the most remote spots, and it seems they've now discovered the Great Lakes. And great we are: " no salt, no sharks, no worries". 

 

 

 

 

 

 


09/22/19 01:49 PM #2704    

 

Garry Sellers

Well thank you for your kind wishes Nancy.  Two weeks and the refurbished body parts are doing fine.  A little behind scheduble due to sciatica and other body parts demanding equal opportunities.

We are now at the point where I most miss Wisconsin.  The  Fall colors and all the smells accomanying them.  Maybe not in the Milwaukee area yet but certainly in my sister's turf around Eagle River.  I don't think I've mised a year in the 50 since leaving Wisconsin that I don't get terribly nostalgic and melancholy in late September, early October.  Our street (33rd/Silver Spring) was once part of Thurston Forest, packed with majestic old oaks and towerring elms which produced more than its share of colors.  I can still smell the leaves burning along side the road (to this day they have never installed curbs or sidewalks in the two blocks that were part of Granville).  And the mounds of leaves we'd build up only to dive into and have to rake the all up again ... my Dad just standing there smiling and shaking his head.


09/23/19 08:46 AM #2705    

 

Melody Jones (Parker)

What Fall/Autumn???   It is 90 degrees outside today!  What's wrong with this picture?


09/23/19 06:20 PM #2706    

 

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

Garry,

Your post brought a flood of memories for me - I lived on the corner of 36th & Thurston.  Loved walking down into the "forest".  St. Albert church had a Friday Fish Fry once a month - mmmmmmmm!

Here in Oak Creek the leaves are just barely starting to change but it won't be long & they'll be in all their Fall glory.  We need that as whar follows Fall is horrendous!  The season that shall remain nameless.

So far my knees & hips are mine but there is so much titanium in my back, I can set off alarms!

Barb

 


09/24/19 08:42 PM #2707    

Sharon Augustin (Neitzel)

Hi,

I just wanted to thank everyone on the Reunion committee for organizing the party. It was great fun.

Sharon


09/25/19 02:27 PM #2708    

 

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

Totally agree with Sharon!

 

Barb


09/26/19 02:21 PM #2709    

 

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

I am so sorry to have missed the 75th party. Had my plane booked already, but then husband Jon had a health setback requiring my presence. I'd been really looking forward to it. However I think reaching 76 is even more significant than reaching 75, as will be every year going forward (God willing) so I hope there will be future parties. I add my thanks to the committee for keeping the get-togethers going. Speaking of the Fall colors and forests, we lived on 51st and Congress, and there was a little forest of mostly tall old oaks around Lincoln Creek, with all those colors and smells Garry was describing. It was our favorite place to play and explore as kids. That was when Lincoln Creek was still wild, with "bridges" of overturned tree trunks across the creek, and "caves" in the side of the creek where the roots had been. Such a great place to be a kid!


09/26/19 03:52 PM #2710    

 

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Terri, you and I could have our own mini 76th Birthday Party!


09/27/19 11:24 AM #2711    

 

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

Would love that, Jeanne. Or you can come and visit us when the Crew plays the Dodgers in LA!


09/27/19 04:53 PM #2712    

 

Jim Cejka

Terri, Jeanne, you're both welcome to come here for shrimp and grits too.


09/27/19 09:19 PM #2713    

 

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

Jim, you're WAY too generous! How about steak & fries? Lotsa wine, too!!


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