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2003 in Review

(Reader's Digest® Abridged Edition Calendar. Lucky you...)

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Another year older and deeper in... uh... debt. My second 50th birthday party.

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Let them eat cake

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Stomach cramps or even-ing the height differential?

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Thanks to all who attended (you know who you are/were/might be)

Nothing ever happens in February...

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OK, well, Paula and Bob visited from AZ...

...and brought with them a snowstorm that socked in the East Coast for 5 days... ...so it took me 2-1/2 hours to get home on the Metro after I took the photo.

Too much Wanless for one month! (There's never enough Wanless!...)

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It started with Birdwoman and Builder Bob at Mardi Gras at Ken and Louisa's...

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Then "Dames At Sea" (not the ones in this photo...)

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...and ended with Ken's B-Day celebration

And in between Wanless sightings....

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Rob was in a holding pattern in Qatar...

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There was time for a visit with Mary Hospodar...

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At the Birchmere were Junior & his Guit-steel guitar...

"You say goodbye and I say hello."

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We said hello to Hannelore on her visit from Florida...

For Rent

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We said goodbye to Mike's Aunt Lil at Arlington...

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Rob was home from Iraq in time for Mother's Day

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G. Werner & the P. Werners

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Visiting with Dennis Carlini & his mom

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Visiting with Dorothy Lucas in Chicago Heights

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Niece Meghan graduates 8th Grade, Manteno, IL

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My Dinner with André, uh, Frank Miller

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Winding down with the Wienings & Wisinskis

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Mr. Wayne's World

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Niece Maureen graduates 12th Grade, Manteno, IL

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Do a 10-mile hike while your foot still works...

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Welcome Home, Rob!

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In der Wood

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Cousin Laurie

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Broke as a joke (ha, ha!)

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Forrest Gimp

Ya don't go to too many places when on crutches...

Ditto...

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Maggie visits from Chicago

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Fetterolfs & Tatros at the wedding of Fetts's son (semi-mobile again)

Hosting visitors... don'tcha just love it?

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Brother Bill from Hawaii

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DeLaurentii from Californy (plus Bill)

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Joy & Diane (plus Bill)

Being a visitor... don'tcha just love it?

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Thanks to Dinah and her masters...

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...and to Mother Nature

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...and to land lovers

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...and to hot tubs everywhere!

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Wedding Bells in MO

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Being a visitor... don'tcha just love it?

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Throw them rolls!

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Chow time with Doris & John, and Zoe & Jeff, and Bristol & Einstein

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Marcia & Denny Tighe

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It's alive !


Thanksgiving with the Morelocks (the Eloi couldn't make it...)

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Where's the Ham Burgler?

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Rob and his mom

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Rob and Jennifer

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The other Bob & Paula

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Brigitta's niece Erika (and husband Andy) visit for the Army Band Xmas Concert

And that's it for now.

So...

Ho, ho, ho...

Merry Christmas to all...

...and to all a good night


And best wishes to the rest of you whose paths crossed with mine this year, but otherwise have been spared the ignominy of photographic evidence....

As usual, if you really want to know what went on, you can take a gander at

Brigitta's annual wrap-up.

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