Christmas Card
2006
Meinhover and Gluesing Family
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Christmas Card 2006 Meinhover and Gluesing Family |
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Under construction, December 3rd, 2006 |
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Merry Christmas 2006. This is our 24th picture Christmas card. We created the first one in 1982, the year Andy was born. We hope you received our paper copy. These pictures are an expansion of the photos we have used in our Christmas card. Photos are taken by Kate, Andy (Ted) and I in '06. Tom |
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Our Rush Lake family house. We built this house 20 years ago; the summer after our house fire the day after Christmas 1985. As is often the case; houses come to embody family and memories. We are so lucky that this is the case with us. Kate, Andy (Ted), Mom (Debbie) and Papa (Tom) |
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Photos of Deb and Tom. 62 years old for Tom, Social Security year. |
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 Fall
is such a beautiful time. 2006 weather gods gave us a very cold
October but a very nice November. Lots of nice color that
stayed. Scores of spectacular sunsets |
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Collage Christmas Cards have become an annual tradition. First it becomes a family record of the year (it's really amazing what we forget from year to year, events fade, are misplaced in time or are forgotten altogether.) Second, it become a Christmas to our friends, just as you send out Christmas cards.
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| Kate purchased a digital on 'Black Friday" at 5:00 a.m. These two pictures of Annabelle hydrangeas in our front yard. The one above is at sun rise and the one on the right is a flash taken at night. Nice job daughter. | |
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Sunrise in the early spring, looking into our storm damaged woods, looking east. More pictures below. |
Fall food processing. Debbie 'steams' our abundant harvest of apples; freezing bags of apple juice, that we will bring out of the freezer when the days get short and cold. We have planted apple trees for over 30 years and in this mature part of our life we harvest. |
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This is what winter time is all about: We have plenty of wood cut to fuel our stove. How much better can it get. A reading lamp, rocking chair and long evenings and nights inside at 80 degrees while the sub 0 temperatures are on the other side of the glass door. |
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This
is Andy's tree house on the Rush Lake farm.
Papa story: Years after the multistoried tree house was abandoned, I climbed up to one of the upper levels: and found tools..........I had been looking for, for years.:) |
2005 Storm still.........
Continues to challenge our work time,
dreams, resources and plans.
A watershed year for Kate
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Spring .... 2006 Kate graduates from the University of Chicago The quality of the graduation brought home what an unusual and powerful school this University is. This picture was taken as Kate received her diploma. New York Mayor Bloomberg spoke and added to the day's message: "We have taught you to love the process of learning, to respond to your curiosity. ......Chicago isn't the school that puts you into a job." |
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Among the scores of
photos taken on Kate's graduation are ones below and many more of friends in
graduating class of 2006. It was a pleasure to meet them.
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Kate leaving four
years in the dorm. |
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Kate's new life and colleagues in the University of Chicago Hospital system.
Grass Roots
Retail and Greenhouses
This is our 31st year in retail business. Debbie and I have tried many
businesses over the 3 decades. Most have not made it or were not
successful enough to warrant continued life. Our Plants and
greenhouses however are a passion that will be with us for as long as we
breathe. Tom
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(To take a look at this part of our
life in pictures)
Picture below is a summer shot of our Grass Roots in Ottertail, Mn.
Looking south. We are so proud. It was so beautiful. We will
miss it.
debbie
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Weddings every year for the 'high school' kids that Andy and Katie graduated with.
Emily Paulson
Wedding |
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