Pink Palace Crafts Fair 2007

The boys joined Crafts' Fair President, Claudia Stenberg, and others not pictured, to distribute yard signs and posters for the Crafts Fair. Go, eat, visit, enjoy!

Volunteering kids

It might not look like volunteering, but when Sherri (House Manager of Ronald McDonald House Memphis) calls these boys answer! The video gaming equipment is not a forte of any staff or other volunteer so our boys go and trouble-shoot the equipment from time to time. The other day they went to fix the X-Box 360. Problem solved and all is well with the world.

Volunteer of the Year

The Pink Palace family of Museums honored me as Volunteer of the Year
while I believe there are others far more worthy of the award, I thank the staff who nominated me as well as worked on their day off to host the luncheon. The food was excellent. In addition to volunteer of the year, I received a bracelet for 500 hours of service and a pin for 3 years of service. In the photo are Max, our eldest, and my wife, Ginger. Great pains were taken to ensure my participation in this event, I had plans to be in Missouri for National Trail Days and to celebrate my friends Dave and Gwen Fuerhing award as AHS Volunteers of the Year then to take William (our youngest) to Little Rock, AR for a Kendo good-will tournament. I was prodded, bribed, and ultimately ordered to stay in town so I knew something was up! William participated in the tournament and reportedly did well, but did not win his match.

helping out at the National Ornamental Metal Museum

In response to a plea for skilled and unskilled help, our entire family went to the NOMM today. We did everything from metal work to emptying kitchen cabinets in preparation for a kitchen renovation in the guest house!
The kids bailed early and called Uncle Mikey to pick them up, but Ginger and I stayed later. We didn't stay for the promised dinner though. Home to clean up and enjoy the last of a long and very busy weekend.

catching up

I have a bet with my friend Mary. We both are so far behind on our blogs that it's embarassing. I, however, "win" because mine was "more" behind that hers. The blogging is good. It helps me remember things. I honestly would never have remember some of the events if they weren't documented. I just scrolled through several months of digital pictures and found "new" things.

If you keep up with this blog, then you're obviously better than me! You will notice that some events don't have pictures. Sorry. Part of it was a problem uploading, part of it was not wanting to put pictures of friends on the net without their permission. But the bathroom was neither. The truth is, the bathroom remains undone! It is still missing window and show curtains. Well, the frosted glass and the clear plastic shower curtain are there, but the expresso, or chocolate curtains I envisioned are not. Our ceilings are simply too high for all the mass marketed stuff. I have not taken it upon myself to sew, but it appears that is where I am headed.

It's over...Oscar Night America

For weeks, almost a month I have volunteered and worked to help this event come to fruition. It has come and gone. And I am a shell. It took more than I can even express to do the little that I did. My brain is a sieve, my family aches to have our regular lives back. Yesterday I forgot how to knit! Today I remembered...and so we begin the countdown to next Oscar Night America...
Thank you to the entire committee and especially my wife and children who did without me for hours upon end and even volunteered in the end!