Our dog Ginger is a 10-year-old Australian Cattle Dog - the most lovable dog until you lock her up – then she will manage to escape.

Stan's son Dave is featured in the LA Times as the lead sound guy for the Coachella/Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, CA, in April 2024.

2023 was an unusual year – the first half was filled with our usual sporting & social activities & the last half with medical difficulties.

2022 was another fun-filled year packed with sports & social activities in the hills, beaches, mountains & desert of CA.

Each summer, we eleven siblings try to gather near Traverse City, MI. This past June, nine of us made it. Our ages range from 81 to 62.

Eleven of us gathered in our home in Rolling Hills at 12 p.m. for Thanksgiving dinner on November 25, 2021.

Stan & I & our 2 dogs spent 3 days at Mammoth riding our bikes.. The last day I rode up to the main lodge with my 50# dog behind me.

I recently found my diary from when I was 12-14 years old, written in 1954 - 1955. It show me to be boy crazy & the hard work on the farm.

Here are transcribed contents my daily diary entries in 1954-55 when I was 12-14. I find it fascinating to read-maybe because I wrote it.

My last remaining maternal aunts wrote down their memories of when they were growing up on a farm in Michigan in the early 1900's. (1 of 2)