Don, Andy and myself at lunch - thanks for lunch Uncle Don!This week I went to lunch with my Uncle Don and Aunt Andy. Technically I think Uncle Don is my great Uncle, but he doesn't seem old enough to add in the great yet. They both live in Anchorage and are true pioneers of our state. Uncle Don has been here since the 1930's, and they both have great stories to share.
It is good to reconnect, I think the last time we saw each other I was in high school...which would be ten to fifteen years ago! Hopefully we'll stay in better touch. It's funny what you remember about people. I remembered that Andy was a sharp dresser, and always had cool jackets and blouses (didn't change!) and that Uncle Don was a natural story teller, and that I LOVED it when he told a story, it was somehow so real when he told it (also didn't change!).
Don is my grandmother's brother, and since she died when I was just a few months old, it was nice to learn more about her, and he sent me some amazing pictures of her that I'd never seen. My favorite is this one - I think she's 16, in Seward, about to graduate high school. She's the one on the left, and she looks so beautiful and alive, with her whole life ahead of her. It's a good picture of a good place in everyone's life.
Shirley, my grandmother, is on the leftI hope we meet up again soon, and that my husband Rich can come along too.
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My mother looks so young here. I remember her as a 50 year old woman, who was aging very well. She was a snazzy dresser herself, and always tried to look very nice after too many years of young motherhood and little money. I miss her still, and it's been 30 years.
Mom
Thought you might like to know that we called "Uncle Don" - "Hunky Don" for years. He has always been a good uncle and kept the connections for our family. Andy is one of the nicest people I have ever met, and an amazing artist. I value some pots of hers that I got more than 30 years ago!
Mom
Wendy Hi from your cousin Sheila! Hi Shannon, I'm your second cousin, or secy cousin, or just plain sexy for short. Well, not so sexy any more. So, it's back to just Sheila, I guess. It's nice to read your blog. You sound like an interesting young woman. I'll come back and visit again. I'm going to go look at the other one you sent "Hunky" now.
Hi Shela! Glad to meet you at my blog :) Hope to see you when you come visit.
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