pumpkins 2005

pumpkins 2005
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We had a very nice 'Family" weekend. First we started out with a Benefit on Saturday Night to raise money to help defer the cost of treatments. A good friend of ours from Holy Cross is going through chemo and radiation for cancer found in his mouth several months ago. The evening at the Charles Martin Youth Center was one of entertainment from muscians to poets. Howard is a writer for the Tribune and a respected local film maker. This will be one of many benefits to come for Howard. Having cancer can be very expensive.

Sunday was sleep in until 10am. what a treat. breakfast and the sunday paper, phone calls from people I haven't heard from in months and in years.


We went to see a friend of ours in a play called "Arsenic and Old Lace" performed by students from St. Joe. It was very funny and very well done. The stage props were amazing!

We needed to get our pumpkins this weekend in order for Dad to be a part of the whole carving thing. Tom found this farm south of town and was the pumpkins hugh and cheap!! So worth the drive.
On our way back into town, we decided we would take our girls out to dinner to Bruno's on Prairie avenue. This is the place of our first dinner date 18 years ago. How romantic.

Home the carving pumpkin and roasting seeds. Life is very good indeed.

~A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash