Life is full compromises

HAPPY 59th ANNIVERSARY

Sorry, this year there is no big multi-tiered cake.


Sorry, this year the honeymoon suite is already rented.



Sorry, this year you're not near Williamsburg, Virginia.


Sorry, this year there is no champagne.


Sorry, this year there is no fancy feast.


Sorry, this year, there is no music for dancing long into the night.

HOWEVER

This year . . .

This year there is plenty of room for fresh fruit and vegetables in the motel room mini-fridge.

This year, actually, there is a honeymoon suite - Andrew and Christian are particularly enjoying it.

This year you're close to the nursing home.

This year there is plenty of tap water.

This year, we can ask your grandchildren to dance as your daughter sings.

This year, we'll have dinner at the nursing home.


Life is full of compromises, as you know after 59 years of wedded bliss. Your five children, three in-laws, four grandchildren, a niece and husband, a nephew and wife and child, plus a sister are here to wish you a


VERY HAPPY 59th ANNIVERSARY!!

So, even though you don't have all the trimmings of 59 years ago, we're sure you'll enjoy this year's celebration with all the compromises. Next year, we have votes for Key West (complete with someone screaming that she will NOT go and if she does she will NOT have a good time), Hillsboro, Stacy's in Wilmington, an all day outing to IKEA, beans with hot sauce at a Mexican restaurant, nature hikes complete with sampling of unripe persimmons . . . So, enjoy the good times THIS year.

With love from your children

Catherine
John
Mary Virginia
Roberta
Serena

Mary Virgnia's birthday

Isn't this a great photograph of Mary Virginia . . . she was always such a ham.

Mary Uible Horton - alone and with various relatives

 

 

 

 

KC in his walker

Printing off some pictures today to bring to Florida with us. This one was taken about an hour ago. KC spent the night at our house last night and we are meeting his parents in a couple of hours for an early supper. Looking forward to seeing the Uible clan in Florida soon.

Eagle has landed

Folks arrived fine about 4PM EST. ETD 0900 03.31.07

The Eggery and the weather in West Palm Beach

I had a very nice breakfast with Catherine, Gerry, Wendy Jean, Ken, Sarah (one of Ken's sisters), Katie (Sarah and Ken's niece) and KC this morning a The Eggery. The food was good and it is a very nice place - we went to the one at Camelback and Central. By the way, there was mention there that there is now (or coming soon) an Egg and I restaurant at 83rd and Union Hills. Both Katie and KC were very quiet.

Catherine and I discussed that they will be picking me up about 6:00 a.m. Monday to leave for Florida. That way I can clean out the kitty litter one last time before I leave (since the next change won't be until Wednesday mid-day).

The weather here is quite nice and looks like West Palm Beach will also be very nice next week - the link for the weather site that I use is here.

Anyone talk to Mom and Dad?

They called tonight and sounds like Dad is feeling better--has walked AND ridden his bike to the office and today worked in the yard he said.

Does she look like the Crowsons or the Uibles?

Top picture, taken after the concert when we went to Charlotte, NC.

Which side of the family does she look like? Can she touch her nose with her tongue like her Aunt's Roberta and Serena?

New User--Don

Hello, All!
I'm posting finally (via my brilliant wife) as I had trouble logging on before. I know I'm late with my vote for favorite reunion, but it was at Glacier National Park, in spite of the fact it was COLD when we were there. It sure was beautiful!

Car

I assume this is what Dad discussed
---Honda four door sedan with 34 mpg. I'm sure they are glad to be back home for awhile!

Who would have known?

PAINTED STREETS

Step into this South Florida town, and watch an art gallery appear beneath your feet.

On a sunny Saturday morning, the streets of Lake Worth, Florida, blossom in colors as bright as a garden. Hundreds of artists kneel with chalk in hand, sketching their entries for the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in February. Artists come from as far away as California to draw more than 240 paintings that are reproductions of classics that hang in museums. Many artists attend Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach.

How long the art lasts depends on nature. Traffic takes its toll when the streets reopen--tires act like big erasers.

Excerpted from Southern Living Magazine.

Snow Hill ~ 1920 Postcard

$26.00 somebody paid for this! Landscaping looks a bit different then.

KC & his Great-Granddad

Here's KC and his great-grandfather at the folks new place in SCW, taken Saturday, March 10.

Jacks and ball

The picture of the ball and jacks caught my eye! Here is part of what the article with the picture said, "Get out the wooden tops, jacks and marbles - classic toys are finding new life as rehabilitation tools for seniors. In various nursing homes and senior centers on the East Coast, a new program, administered by the Teacher Place & Parent Resources in Burlington, Vermont, uses classic toys to improve memory and hand-eye coordination."

World as Cloverleaf strange map

From Strange Maps Blog 030807
Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) knew the world didn’t really look like this. There are enough maps in his works (such as Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae) to indicate he knew the continents had an irregular, and not a symbolic shape.
This particular map is a tribute to Buntings hometown Hanover, as the text above the map indicates: Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblatt welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen (‘The Whole World in a Cloverleaf, Which Is The Coat of Arms of Hannover, My Dear Fatherland’).
The map shows a world divided into three parts (Europe, Asia and Africa), connected at a single central point: Jerusalem. This is essentially still the same symbolic map of the world as the one first devised by Saint Isidore in the seventh century. Isidore’s ’T and O’-shaped map, itself inspired by Scripture, influenced Christian European mapmaking up until the age of discovery.
That age would be the one Bunting grew up in. He and his contemporaries were among the first generations of Europeans to know Isidore was wrong – but it’s almost impossible to resist imagining how this centuries-old archetype of a map took a while to be erased out of the common memory of cartographers.
Bunting’s map is nice in that it combine symbolism with realism: in the bottom left corner a piece of land is named America. Strange is that a similar detached piece of territory at the top of the map is labelled Denmark and Sweden. Bunting must have known that Denmark was contiguous with the European Continent…
Some named countries and places (not all are easily readable) on the three continents are, left to right:
Europe: Hispanien (Spain), Mailand (Milan), Welschland (Welsh? Walloon? Country), Frankreich (France), Lothringen (Lorraine), Roma (Rome), Deutschland (Germany), Ungarn (Hungary), Polen (Poland), Preussen (Prussia), Griechenland (Greece), Türken (Turks)
Africa: Lybia, Egypten, Morenland (Land of the Moors), Königreich Melinde (Kingdom of Melinde) , Caput Bonae Spes (Cape of Good Hope)
Asia: Siria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Chaldea, Persia, India

Runs in the Family?

Returned to the allergist MD yesterday with Christian and think we have the answer to the nosebleeds that have plagued him for probably 7-8 years. They seem to ebb and flow (no pun intended) but are the worst in the winter/early Spring and in the heat of summer. Seasonal allergies combined with extremes in weather (which dry out the sinus cavities) seem to be the problem.

Brings to mind that I remember having alot of nosebleeds as a child but don't remember any rhyme or reason to them. Further, it might be helpful in our family history to track medical challenges that might be inherited whether nosebleeds or breast cancer or even heart related to be proactive and preventive for ourselves and future generations. I know we have discussed this before in passing but I did not keep a record of it. I would be glad to track this for future reference if family would like to email me (private--not blog related, necessarily).

With Mom and Dad both having blockages, etc., we need to be especially vigilant now with heart disease as well as cancer check-ups.

On a lighter note, Christian had baseball try-outs last night and we're looking forward to the beginning of little league in a few weeks. AND it is not too late if anyone would like to visit next week for the big St. Patrick's celebration in Dublin. The whole town turns out for the Pancake Dinner on Thursday night sponsored by the Exchange Club (similiar to Lions, etc) and then Saturday is the parade, crafts festival and many more activities. What airport would you like to utilize???
Did the picture CDs arrive in Phx yet?

State Quiz

For those interested in US geography; try this quiz - State Quiz. Rather simplistic though.

WENDY JEAN HAS NEWS!

Have you read Wendy Jean's big news?

Here is the link for her comment which has the actual news

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Birthday to my favorite youngest aunt and to KC's favorite youngest great aunt! Does it make you feel old being someone's great aunt?

February 28, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MARY VIRGINIA UIBLE CROWSON!

Is this the year she turns 50 ?

I had meant to get more photographs posted yesterday/this morning, but things have been a bit hectic.

TOPIC THIS WEEK

How about favorite place and/or memory in Florida? I'd like to hear the real story from Mom and Dad about Roberta and the Key West trip...not the one that has been retold and "morphed" over the years. lol! Does RUK have any recollection of this situation? Does she still post on the blog?

I'd also like to say THANK GOD FOR GOOD GENES
....Dick Uible lived into his 90s
...Howard Uible still doing well at 97
....Gladys Hiestand Uible past 100
....NW Ballantyne lived past 80
...Mother has already outlived (and out-done??) her mother and maternal grandmother
...her paternal grandmother lived past 100 (is that right??)

Did all these people at least visit Florida? Don't know about Irene Freeman but the rest would be YES! Maybe there is a fountain of youth somewhere...

Ginny's "job"

Ginny helped out at "Come Home to the Country" as a server tonight and last Saturday and really enjoyed it. Evidently their regular server had surgery and they were short-handed...the pay was a nice bonus! www.dublinfarm.com Mom and Dad as well as Roberta and Sid will remember well our meal there with them!
Serena, I don't know how to link it (or if possible?), but I did upload 2 photo albums online with picasa today. All the pictures (and a WHOLE lot more) are on the CDs you all will be getting....
Also time for the greenin' o' Dublin for St. Pat's festivities: www.saintpatricksfestival.com

New email address

If you would like an email address that ends in uible.org, email me.

It is a google email account. The mail can be forwarded to a different email address.

If you want an account, send me what name you want. I've already signed up togethr.

Radial Head Fracture

No, it is not my head that is injured but my elbow! A small crack, but cracked nevertheless, requiring a sling and limited use of the arm/elbow for at least a couple weeks. Fortunately the pain is minimal and I have a fairly good range of motion already. One of the following caused the injury: skateboard, motorcycle, paraglider, chapstick. All in all I missed about 1.5 hours of work so haven't had to make a dent in my 1500+ hours of sick leave.

Family Pictures

Going to get CDs put in the mail today and hopefully there will be a picture or two on the CD you have not seen! With the CD, you can look at it from your computer or if there's one you want to print, you can do that from your own printer or take it to a photo developing place (Wal-Mart or drug store, etc) and get any size you want made. Also, Serena, would you send Don another invitation to the blog as he tried to post a time or two recently and it wouldn't let him. Thanks!

HELLO ROBERTA!

Your password for Google is now saved on both your computers. Anyone who is using your computer can post on your account without knowing your password - possibly even you.

Good Morning from Ballad

Thanks Serena for getting me this far! I won't take much time to tell you why I can't write more now, but I am on my way over to look at a piece of furniture for the folks! It is a cute miniature desk, which could be used as a table, etc. Stay tuned!

Did anyone else eat pancakes last night? We ate some at the Espiscopal Church, after we went by the Lutheran Church where we thought they were having pancakes, but it looked like a formal dining experience there, so we did not crash the party!

We did get in a bike ride yesterday with me wearing shorts, but long sleeves! The bad news is on the home front that Sid has lost his wallet, which we spent hours looking for last night! We will re-trace our bike route, but my thought is that is is squirred away under a layer or two inside this house!

I just had some of Serena's excellent bread! More to follow.....that is of me eating more bread and writing more if I can get back on this! Love to all, Roberta the poster!

Next Best Thing to Being There

We are really enjoying the new pictures posted of the Arizona family and most especially KC! Will he (and his folks?) be making an appearance in Florida in a few weeks? What's the latest on the folks duplex and progress there?
JB and I have been working on making reservations on the north and southbound stops of the FL trip and looking forward to getting together with everyone! Don is sorry to miss out BUT just signed up for "free" training through the (current) company to become a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. It will require him to be in Atlanta for a week bi-monthly for the next 12 months. His first go'round is March 5-9.

Wendy & KC: Lucky Charmers

Family in Red with KC

Dad & KC on Valentine's Day

Hello Roberta!

I have no idea why you can't post from your computer.

This is posted from Roberta's laptop.

Valentine's Day After

Had a great supper and visit last night with Mom & Dad, Roberta, Serena, Mavis, Lester, Gerry and I plus our special Valentine's visitor, Mister KC -- who smiled and cooed appropriately while being passed around, fussed over, and admired. He sat right up at the table in his bouncy vibrating chair. I'll attach a picture later. The SCW crowd moved on after 8pm in order to make a furniture shopping stop on the way home. We were sorry to miss, Sid. Hope he's feeling better today. KC went to sleep shortly after 9pm, and slept until 2am, then again until 6am so can't complain about loss of sleep during his visit. Hoping to take him to babytime later this morning, before I go to work at noon. Gerry, Mavis and Lester will babysit until Wendy gets off work and picks him this afternoon.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Favorite Reunion

My favorite was Estes Park at YMCA of the Rockies in 1994. A distant second would be Shenandoah but if I ever go back, I'd like to research family tree as that is the very area the Hiestands came to Highland County from.

Izaak Walton Inn - Montana

Here's my top choice of reunion locations! In thinking of past reunions though, I think a list would be helpful so here's a start. I'm guessing at dates, so please correct me and I'll update.

Christmas in Phoenix - 1989
Grand Canyon - 1993
Estes Park, Colorado - 1994
Essex, Montana - 1996
Lexington, Kentucky - 1997
Williamsburg, Virginia - 1998
Glorieta, New Mexico - 1999
Shenandoah, Virginia - 2000
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 2001
Dahlonega, Georgia - 2002
Yosemite, California - 2003
Newark, Ohio - 2004
Lake Worth, Florida - 2007

Blog Topics

How about a new topic this week? My suggestion is favorite family reunion (as adults). Tag, you're it! We're looking forward to seeing everyone in Florida!

wonderful pictures

Just a quick note to say how pleasantly surprised I was this morning to find new pictures upon my arrival to the UIBLE blog! And from the youngest members on up! Sid just asked me again about the LOVE LETTERS we went to last night with Barbara Eden (is she the one or not the one that moved her nose?) and Hal Linden. Long story made short for those outside of the AZ Territory (you know it was one until 1912) we were given comp tickets and I can see why the tickets at $55 each were available! Details to follow. Please Serena!?!
Best of Sundays to one and all.....Roberta the poster

KC and others in photos

1966 Serena, John, MV

This is a picture I found at the folks last summer---one of the very few with the 3 of us younger siblings!

Downtown New Vienna

Alta Loma

For more photographs click here.

New Vienna 1914

This is a photo-postcard, 1914, currently for sale on e-bay with a high bid of $9.99. Anybody interested? What year would the Uible family have arrived in New Vienna? Late 20s? Early 30s?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CATHERINE!

Hope you've had a great birthday week although I'm not the pro at collages....wanted to be sure to get a picture of KC in!