{"id":706,"date":"2012-07-10T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/\/?page_id=706"},"modified":"2012-07-10T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:06:59","slug":"christmas-1984","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancestrywall.com\/?page_id=706","title":{"rendered":"Christmas – 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ho, Ho, Ho, and all that Jazz \u2013 \u201c\u2026and not a creature was stirring not even a mouse\u2026\u201d Ha! That\u2019s what he said all right, and we thought that would pretty well describe 1984, especially after last year. \u2013 No Way! \u2013 a quasi-orchestrated three phased Chinese fire drill was more like it if you ask me, and how was yours? We trust it was good, and that you are all well as we bring you our Yule \u201clog\u201d of the year that was. The year started innocuously enough, I mean, after all George was heading for his last semester at Florida and wedding plans for Karen Owens (K.O.) and George were set for early August, now what could be more benign than that? It looked like the only real problem would be finding enough to say in this annual epistle, however as the year unfolded, this particular problem never materialized.<\/p>\n

February \u2013 Diane announces she and Jeff Houston will be married \u2013 when, next fall? No, in April! No words can adequately describe the next two months. Suffice it to say what I thought to be the price of the dress was in fact only the price of the headpiece.<\/p>\n

April \u2013 It happened in Charlotte N.C. with the meeting of the entire clan including Bob\u2019s mom, escorted by his brother Dick\u2019s wife Sela. She hadn\u2019t seen the crowd since the \u201ccrumb grabbing, door slamming \u201c days, and it was good to have her as part of the \u201czoo\u201d for a few days. It was a garden wedding, and Charlotte in the spring with dogwood and azaleas in full bloom, was something. Diane and Jeff will be starting their life on a small (5,000 acre) wheat farm in Tribune, Kansas (Rand McNally G-6)<\/p>\n

May \u2013 We are off to New Orleans and Bill Olson\u2019s wedding in true New Orleans style, what a ball. Sort of fun attending someone else\u2019s wedding for a change. At the end of the month, George (as announced) graduated from the University of Florida \u2013 A moment of silence please. \u2013 When he said: \u201cDad, I am sure glad to be out\u201d, I said \u201cSon, I have you beat by several orders of magnitude!<\/p>\n

June \u2013 Karen and Barry move to Atlanta \u2013 we take two girls for a month (relative), a week actual. It used to be we waited for kid\u2019s naps so we could do something productive, now we wait for their naps so we can take ours \u2013 ah, that\u2019s the way it goes. <\/p>\n

July \u2013 Or sometime in here, Sherry Mitchell, Joyce\u2019s cousin from Colorado Springs dropped in for a visit. Always nice to catch up from friends and family. Wish more of you would stop by. <\/p>\n

August \u2013 George and K.O.\u2019s day. Bob\u2019s mom made it down for this wedding also, great. The wedding in our church, was beautiful and went off without a hitch, uh, more or less. <\/p>\n

September \u2013 Helped move K.O and George to Quincy Florida, where George got a job with a forestry consulting firm. The rented house had a beautiful view, said George, but no garage. Translated this means a 100-yard deep front yard on a 30% slope and no driveway \u2013 Groan! Vignette: lamp, small table type at that, inching it\u2019s way erratically up the front lawn \u2013 in reality, Joyce with a lamp shade on head \u2013 long on efficiency, short on visibility.
\nOctober \u2013 Somewhere between August and September, Bruce and his fianc\u00e9 Pam, are you ready for this? Announced their wedding to be held in October. It was to be a small affair with Dad as best man. Bob\u2019s mom couldn\u2019t make this one (that\u2019s okay ma, two out of three \u201cain\u2019t\u201d bad). The wedding was in the evening in the old Georgian Hotel in downtown Athens, GA. What a delightful setting. Interesting all three weddings in completely different environments, that made it nice.<\/p>\n

November \u2013 St. Regis merged with Champion International. Significance, other than we are now Champion? Y\u2019all have to wait until next year and check our post mark.<\/p>\n

Love, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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