FROG POND TALES 2008


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More pictures of Siena are coming once I put together a show. Believe me I finally have a web show of pictures of Siena that her dad Tom put together. These pictures will be from a ultra scan of Siena in Amie's tummy to at least her first thanksgiving gathering at Don's house. If Christmas pictures come in before I finish I will add them to the show.  Click on this picture to begin the show. There are over 400 pictures in this show so when you get tired of looking at them press pause and take a little nap. I am going to try a new slide show program so I will be able to get them all in one show. 

This year Nov 2008 we had Thanksgiving at Bubba and Don's. Siena, Amie and Tom drove in from Maryland, as the weather was too questionable to fly the Cheetah. We had rain and snow forecast almost their entire route. Crossing the mountains is always dangerous in the winter because of the chance of getting ice on the aircraft. Small aircraft do not want to fly if they  have ice on their  wings.
Donna, Diane's sister  surprised us by flying in from Massachusetts. We found out that plans were coordinated through Amie and Tom and Jen and Don. I guess every one was aware that Donna was coming except Diane and the Frog. It was a good surprise as we had not seen Donna for several years. We had our Thanksgiving at Don's home as he has nearly twice the room we have. Jen's mother and her grand daughter was there along with her brother and a couple of her uncles. Henry Jen's dad could not make it as he had to work. We also had all 4 of the dogs with us, so we had to keep an eye on the food table as except for Minnie the other three could just stand there and eat from the table. I am happy to say the dogs behaved them selves and no food was missing.  The food was great and I believe every one had plenty to eat. There is a slide show of every one stuffing their face under the picture above. So just click on the picture of Siena and Amie to see the rest of the family.

This is a slide show of a visit Diane and I took to see some old friends at a cabin they owned in the hills of Eastern PA. in  September of 2008.  Marilyn and Jim Lindner who we last saw at South Hills High School's 45th reunion in the summer of 2007. At the reunion Jim made the mistake of inviting us to their cabin which they have owned for over 15 years. One night while I was sitting around doing nothing as usual I got cabin fever. I went to my old friend Goggle and looked up the Lindner's phone number. When Jim answered my call it sounded like he was expecting it all along. But then I found out that is the way he answered any phone call that he received. Anyway I told him of my cabin fever and was the invite still open. I am happy to say he was happy to say come on over, so a date and time was set for our visit. I am very pleased to say we had a wonderful relaxing 6 days at the Happy Acre cabin. Their was a pond on the farmers property across the street and jim showed me how to catch and release fish. I had purchased a 3 day out of state fishing license. I was able to use it for 2 days as the last day we were planning to go fishing it rained. So you will see some pictures of Jim catching a small bass while Minnie and me sat and watched. Click on the picture above to see how us old folk pass our time together

This picture was taken at Larry and Olga's 2008 Labor Day picnic. We could not stay long as we were just getting back from the Cleveland Air Show. Siena was tired and probably in need of a poop shoot catcher change.

Bubba and Don were not there as they were working.

Amie and Tom Plus Siena and Kate could only stay a couple of days. They flew in on Friday and returned home on Monday. I will add some more pictures of their visit when I have a chance. 

Several new pictures of Siena below, she is just a little over 3 months old now 07/12/2008

Diane and I drove to Maryland to visit the expanding Hesbach family, on June 5th. Boy is our little granddaughter Siena growing up. She is reciting the Declaration of Independence backwards. At least that's what I think she is doing as I can not understand a word she is babbling. I think hereafter I will be calling her Gabby. To go to the slide show click here.   

Pictures have been added to the Frog Family pictures. Remember click on the Christmas picture above to go there.
I would like to announce that the not so skinny Minnie is skinny again. 12 pounds,  I took her to a animal clinic in Columbus because of a breakout of pimples that she had. She would loose hair around the area of the pimple. The local vet was on the right track but this young vet said, the results of some blood tests showed she was allergic to her food and had the symptoms of ---------name of which I can not remember now. I will add it later when Diane gets home, She had us put her on a strict diet of ground venison, carrots and potatoes. She lost over 5 pounds and the pimples. The vet also have us giving her 5mg of Melatonin. I called the vet and told her that 1 mg would knock me on my kister, what would it do to a 12 pound wiener dog. She said not to worry. Minnie is spry as a 3 year old and no pimples. The picture to the right is taken from the sunroom showing the snow hanging from the roof.

                                                                                                                  Pictures of our new Grand daughter are located under the Siena links. The Siena pictures can also be found on the Amie and Tom page. Some more pictures of Siena added. Some are  duplicates and will be removed unless I am really partial to them, then they will have to
 stay.
There I go again. 5 more pictures of Siena. Every time I promise "No more pictures of Siena until she is a senior in High school", Amie e-mails us more of her growing up. When I showed these to Grandma Diane, I thought she was going to cry, Diane that is, I am sure Siena would never cry. More pictures of Siena at 11 weeks and our trip to see our grandchild in June 2008.

Pictures of Sonny's daughters Karen and Noreen have been added to Ellis Family pictures. Some text has also been added to the slide show of the reunion in Brighton, Ontario this past summer of the five best friends a fellow could have.   A picture of Grandma and Grandpa Hamel has been found and added which includes their grandchildren Tommy J and Christie Hamel. Christy is married now but I do not know their name.
 Little Miss Camilla had a party. It wasn't a coming out party as that is still nearly a month and a half away. Actually it was a baby shower. I sure hope Camilla is a girl as if you are a he you are going to look funny in all those pink clothes.
I tried to get a good side angle view of Amie showing her enlarged belly. But every picture I took of her was not at the right angle. Amie's only comments about her added weight were " I only wish my butt would stop growing as I cannot keep my pants up". Maybe she should wear suspenders as she suggested I do at Christmas as it would hold my pants up over my butt crack. I never noticed  my butt crack before, but then I guess that is why God put the Butt Crack in the back were we can not see it. No pictures will be coming of my butt crack so you can continue on to link to the slide shows of Camilla's party" I have added some pictures to the end of the party pictures showing Tom, and Lin Cross His step dad and Tom, Tom's  dad  busy installing a hardwood floor in the nursery. It was a large job and the three guys worked hard at it. I stayed away as I was afraid if I went down on my knees I would never get up because of my weight. Also in this slide show are some pictures showing Amie, Diane and Tom's mother Jo sorting all the clothes Camilla received into nice yearly piles.

The pages Amie's surprise and The More of Amie's surprise have been combined into 1 page that can be reached by entering The Amie and Tom Pages or the above link. I did this to clear up a sound problem I could not find a fix for.

I will be moving all of last years Pond Talk and adding it to a link on the bottom left column. Everything will be there, it will just have its own dedicated section. 

The above two pictures are from our New Years get together with the last of the of our friends that have not permanently moved a South or West to get away from our winters. More pictures can be seen by right clicking on the happy picture to the left above.  The picture below was taken by Olga a friend of many years. Looks to me as if she caught me doing something I shouldn't have been.

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Some of you who happen upon these smattering of photos and text and music may wonder why is the Frog doing this. It may seem like a huge waste of time to some.
  But what inspired me was, one day as I was rummaging around for something I had stored in the basement, I came upon 3 boxes of photos we had stored away and forgotten. Some of the pictures were of my mother who I had not seen since 1956 when she passed away  of polio and of my father who has been gone for over 20 years. Then I thought what were going to happen when Diane and I pass. Were these pictures and our current family pictures going to be tossed in a box and later thrown out. Will the Ellis and Lamoreaux families be recycled to the trash dump, one trash pickup day in the future?
But no I thought, I will start a web page, just for the fun of it. It is very inexpensive. I will then save the web page file to a DVD. Come Christmas I will then give a copy of the Lamoreaux Family history to my children as a Christmas gift.Each year I will give them a new disk that has all the newly added photos and info on it. That would mean they would have a updated copy of our history up until my death, or I become to cranky to do this silly waste of time any longer. A DVD copy of the web page will run as if it were on line, published to the web.  Music and all. And if the computer that you are viewing the Frog Pond on is connected to the internet, if a link is refered to and it is still active the DVD will go to the link.
 I know that the computer bigwigs keep getting richer by changing the format or method of saving information. So it will be up to the future Lamoreaux family to upgrade the DVD disk to the next format when it comes along. Then they would pass it along to their family.
At least that is what I hope happens.