My Grandpa Harold Charles Rosenberg turned 88 last week and Lisa asked my grandparents if they remembered the depression. I've often heard them tell of President Hoover promising soup in every pot, while everyone was too poor to own a pot in the first place.
This time my Grandma Verna Elizabeth Rosenberg recalled it being so cold in their house one winter that the water in her brother's gold fish bowl froze. I asked if the fish was alive when it thawed ala Austin Powers or Demolition Man...apparently that phenomenon is reserved for action heroes and men of mystery.
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It feels like a time for change. If all goes as planned, we'll complete the move we began last June 14 within the month. We hope to close on a new house in Fishers, Indiana on Tuesday. It'll be a nice place to live for awhile. Hopefully to raise a couple of kids too. There's a neighborhood playground and a basketball court and tennis court in an adjoining neighborhood we could quickly walk to.
For friend's favorites: A Qdoba is within two miles, a Donato's within one mile. It's one of a thousand houses in the middle of suburbia. A quaint little cul-de-sac that is one gorilla goal short of a good basketball game...hopefully we can fix that soon. I'm looking forward to settling in with Rogers and Gracie. It will be a good spring.
I made some technological upgrades last weekend by joining Twitter. There are many times that I have a thought for my blog, but don't end up logging on and posting. So I decided Twitter might be a better approach for consistent updates. I'm afraid I may have lost my Web counter...I'll look into recovering that, but for the record, I believe I was at 7,900+ hits. And I'll add my links back in as well.
Now I guess I'll need to look into Skype this summer, especially so I can keep in touch with Deardorff in Romania.
Is 2009 almost 25% over? Spring is approaching. God bless the return of Spring!
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@your twitter post - Way to pay it forward!
It really is 25% done, and realize this;
it's 2009, meaning 1999 was 10 years ago, and I'll bet you remember what you did on new years 1999!
I'm close to breaching 20,000 hits on my site, pretty excited. I think you could also re-start your counter at higher than 0 if you investigate a little
One of your friends is distantly related to President Herbert Hoover. Can you guess who?
*Hint: Their name rhymes with Zhannon.
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