The youungest 'puddle' is joiningme today at work. I did some location work yesterday while it was nice (I'm a fair weather surveyor!) and today is for some drafting and calcs. The yongest grandchild, James, is joining me today while his parents drove up to my daughters in Burlington VT for some winter sports for a few days. The father is Kris, my middle son and the Marine Corporal.
Kris will be sipping out next month to Kyrgyzstan as part of the Marine Expenditionary Force Headquaters to support the effort in Afghanistan. He expects to be gone for a year.
I was lucky to have all five of my kids home for Christams, 3 with their significant others and/or spouses, and my 88year old mother flew up from FL to join us. It's been a fun week.
Here's all of us, Kris is the big guy with Banjo, the white dog, next to my wife Dawn with the black hair. Minnie and son James are next to Kris. Others include me, middle back, SAm ther ed head next to me, my daughter Kate and her boyfriend Pete, and My son Charlie and his wife Emily, they are the tallest and shortest in the picture. And my daughter April, my youngest at 16, and of course my mother Jane in the center of it all...
oh, and the 'puddle' comment refers to my grandmother that used to call us all 'puddles', "after all what else is small poole"
Now to get the daughter in law to come visit over the next year!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!!
Don
Nice pics..
That lil guy looks like you.
on the old board there use to be a surveyor of the week thing where every week someone provided a bio of themselves so one can get to know them as a surveyor through their work history and personal trials and tribulations. Also get to know them as a person also and by seeing 'common threads' that run through our life.
I always wondered how you got from the U of Bama to Cape Cod. I would have thought a more direct direction to the coast/beach would have been Dauphin Island. 🙂
Anyway good family photo also.
Happy 2013 to you and yours.
A day in the Office>Robert Hill
I actually went from Cape Cod to Alabama! My mother is a Georgia Peach by way of Americas, Franklin and Albany GA. Her fathe was a Civil Engineer for the State of GA.
When I started my college search I decided to give thwe south a shot and Univ. Of Alabama had the least expensive out of state tuition. At the time I was unaware of the Tide! or The Bear...
I worked in Nashville for 4 years after college (and not graduating!), got my PLS and decided that I really missed the Cape, colder winters and milder summers..
Don
A day in the Office>Robert Hill
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> I worked in Nashville for 4 years after college (and not graduating!), got my PLS and decided that I really missed the Cape, colder winters and milder summers..
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and I would think clients with $$$ 😉
A day in the Office>Robert Hill
My internet loaded the first pic, and then slowed way down. We have 6" of snow right now, and Arkansas was not set up for that... So, I assumed that the puddle comment was something about the melting snow.. or something else!
THEN me internet picked up the pace, and I got the rest of the story!
Cool as it gets.
I'm looking forward to grand kids.
Thanks for the short bio, and update. Could you share some local history about Cape Cod? I had a kiddy story book about Cape Cod, and always wanted to visit, and fish.
Merry Christmas, and a very happy new year.
Nate
Great pictures Don - thanks for sharing them with us!
thanks for posting your family pic Don, wish we had a chance to meet on your visit to Az in Sept - maybe some other time.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Did you ever notice in the newspaper
when they have a picture with a group of people they normally start on the front row, left side and proceed to the right, then jump to the next row and go from left to right until they run out of rows?
Apparently, Massachubamians aren't trained in such restrictive methods.
Did you ever notice in the newspaper
I got lost after not finding that guy with a banjo. These are the times you need a coordinate table with SPCs and a list of found or set family members.
I think the banjo is a witness monument, lost, or destroyed.
Did you ever notice in the newspaper
Hi
not a banjo, just Banjo the white dog (reading on screen is so different from reading on a printed page ... found myself in trouble there before)
As I remember well we had pictures here from Banjo before with Don on a survey job!
Nice family pic Don,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Belgium!
Christof.
Congrats....GrandPa!!!!
(I have 3 myself and they are all great)
My FAVORITE GrandPa joke.......What's the worst part of being a Grandfather?????
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You have to sleep with someone's GRANDMOTHER...!!!!!
Snow is just peachy out here in the Berkshires....have a Happy New Year.
