Grandma Eileen (Willigman) Baun lived with us here in Texas for the last three and one half years of her life. She was born a coal miner’s daughter in Amsterdam, Ohio in 1922. She and her first husband Bill Willigman and only child Gloria, moved to Youngstown, Ohio when Gloria was in grade school. I met her daughter Gloria when we were both seniors in high school, we fell in love and I have been...
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50 Years Later
Now here is a real hoot. Take a look at this picture and the “cowpokes” in the previous post. Yep, they are the same folks. Because they spent most of their play time in those western outfits, they are to this day still called “Beaver and Dude”. Beaver is “Lil’ Beaver” as in Red Ryder’s sidekick. Dude is obvious as a cowgirl. Dude is actually my wife, Gloria and Beaver is her cousin uh… Beaver...
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I worked hard this weekend putting my plan into action on the photo processing. I had my wife Gloria give me one of her old albums as at test. There were 375 photo’s in that beast! In the previous post I mentioned a sideline business in which some people may be interested. That is developing electronic and printed book photo albums. This looks like a can do project. I was able to do great scans...
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A big week end is coming up. My son Steven Is getting married! The lucky bride’s name is Danielle. The Lucky groom’s middle name is Daniel. That’s all OK with me as my first name is Daniel. 😉 There has just got to be some magic there somewhere. If that’s not enough, the bride’s father is Jim. The groom’s uncle is Jim (my brother). The bride’s uncle is Dan, her Dad’s brother. Go figure all...
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