Family and Friends
Vic and Karen 2023
........... and Alex and Holly
I have just completed a selection of MANY photos that help to represent our path in 2023. Maybe you will enjoy Perusing the album here.
For most of the year, we stayed within our small part of the Panhandle. I see entire quarters of my Google trip map showing 4 primary destinations. Jay Museum, Home, Halls Hardware, and the VA Clinic in Pensacola. Well, that sounds dull, but a lot happens in those places.
Beyond the usual activity are trips. We took in Baltimore with the USS O'Callahan reunion. We enjoyed time with cousins at Indian Springs, GA where my sister, Wanda has a family cabin. Many of these cousins and family found gatherings over Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Halloween - and Birthdays and random gatherings and more. We are blessed with a large and well-behaved cast of cousins and other family connections and the friends associated with them as well. Alex and Holly add a lot of joy and fun to the otherwise average daily grind of retired living. I can think of none of our kith or kin that are not above average in every way. We love them all.
Among all of our family connections, we have lost some iconic anchors this year. We shan't drift far though. It is comforting to watch the younger generation grow into productive adulthood and take the helm. We are blessed.
Karen's Gatewood Family had some losses and there were losses among our beloved local Campbell families as well. I believe they left a capable gene pool in their wake. It helps to leaf through the pages of family activities for each of them from time to time. It gives hope that the future is GREAT!
Enjoy skimming through the annual photo book (link).
And we offer a massive huge thanks and TEN GOLD DIGITAL STARS to all those seen and not seen in the album who made this year a wonderful memory to carry forward. Please accept at least one of the stars as your own personal star. The awards are presented here.
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