Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Check out the photos from the recent Arizona RRHS63 Mini Reunion in Phoenix!  Lots of fun pictures with some fun people you know!  Link is on your left at the top of the menu bar!

Fred Thomas

Some people in Washington have used their Marxist template to claim that the psychopaths who want to join ISIS only need jobs.  But ISIS already has full time jobs slicing heads, burning people alive, selling girls into sex slavery and burying children alive.  And the pay is good as they steal oil wells, rob banks and loot villages.  Even Karl M. would agree with this.

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

always proud of all my grandkids, but melanie just told me shes getting the honors diploma,s ,so extra proud of her. and my step-gradaughter whos 19, took her fla. boyfriend snow boarding, hes never even seen snow, and he broke his collar bone, hes a football player,and is about 6feet 7 inches, along way to fall.

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Great to hear, Nancy.  A great picture too.  For some reason I got a couple birthday wishes, but Linda's and my birthday is not in March it's in July.  That big number will come soon enough!

Fred Thomas

Happy early birthday to my favorite twins.

I have been thinking about either joining ISIS or going on a cruise.  Ah... I gues I'll take a cruise starting March 8th.

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Thanks Fred.........you are such a sweetheart!   Wish more people would join to fight against ISIS but a cruise for you would be the correct choice!

Linda Peate (Powrie)

So, Fred, have a good time March 8 on your cruise!  You must be cruisin now!  Weather getting better.  Up to 86 deg. and HOT today.  Fred up in Ohio and enjoyed SNOW, which he wasn't too keen on.  But then I got stuck w/the dog down here!! He is getting old and very hard of hearing, just like me!  Has a hard time walking up steps, too.

Barb & I spending every day together while Fred is gone.  Has been fun. He comes back tomor. (Tue.) 

Fred Thomas

Ambiance, oppulence, decadence, luxuriance, brillance,

Promenade prance, playa dance, submergence, shipboard romance,

Abundance, appetence, flatulence, remembrance

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Sadly enough, Lin and Fred had to put their beautiful springer spaniel down last night.  It was a shock for all of us.  He was 12, but they figured he had a couple more years to live.  They went out for an hour and when they returned, Winston's stomach was so big they thought it would explode.  All four of his paws went out from under him in the garage, and they rushed him to the animal ER in Estero, and they said his stomach was inverted and needed immediate surgery or he would die.  The vet said unfortunately, Winston would have to recover from the first surgery only to have a neuro workup after that.  She said there were no guarantees that he might not have a brain tumor or some other problem, but something was neurologically wrong if his legs were going out from under him.  I raced over so we all held him and kissed him as she put him to sleep.  It was the worst thing to go through as he was at my house the day before just peacefully sleeping in my living room.  I also loved him as they did......in fact sometimes he would come to me and not Lin, which she joked about all the time.  We will get through this, but it will take time for Lin and Fred as Winston got them through after Tahnee passed away, and he was Fred's best friend, always waiting by the door for him to come home.  My heart breaks for them..........

Karl Marcussen

I'm sorry for your loss. We have had to go through that several times with animals we have had. Our pets become so much a part of our lives/families that it is really had to fathom getting along without them. We all get through it, though.

Larry Gilbert

Barbara Peate (Sabo)

Larry, as I read your post, tears are streaming down my face.  I remember when you lost your little one, so you know how Lin & Fred are feeling.  Winston was also so much a part of my life, especially when I lived in Westerville for five years, as well as down here in Florida.  Even if I hadn't seen him in months and went home, he knew me.  I know you and Toots got another dog, but with their condo down here, it was getting very difficult for Fred to drive all the way down here and back by himself with the dog, as Lin's back can no longer take the drive.  So, they had decided a long time ago that when something happened, they could not get another pet.  This, however, was such a shock as it was so fast, and they literally had to make a snap decision.  For Winston's sake, it was the right thing to do, although Fred questioned the vet about the decision.  Lin knew, as when they had to let their daughter go, they had to do this for Winston.  We all assured him it was the humane thing to do.  Thanks for Rainbow Bridge...............

Marcia Pullin (Bruder)

The Rainbow Bridge holds a special place in my heart.  A few days after I had to take my beagle, Bailey, in to be put down (she had suffered from liver cancer for a year), I received from the vet a copy of The Rainbow Bridge with her footprint at the bottom.  To this day, I never hear of it without tearing up--like right now.  The love of a dog is so uttterly unconditional.  What you, Barb and Linda, have just been through is so emotionally wrenching.  Winston influenced your lives, leaving you with great memories.  He may be gone from your sight but never from your heart or you memory.

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

Fred Thomas

Mondo Cane

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Here's something fun!  Find the Number One song on the day YOU were born!

http://playback.fm/birthday-song

Nancy Westerfield (Depew)

hope you all come to the bday party in sept.,we will have fun, because we will be together.lots of laughs,lots of memories,and new memories to be made.please contact al,so we have a rough number of whos coming.

have a wonderful easter,and enjoy everyone you come in contact with,were all getting older,life is precious,love one another. there are alot of crazies out there now adays,so treasure what we have,and who we are,we know the class of 63 is awesome.
 

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Well, we leave for Ohio April 25.  Can't believe our time is finished.  Fred & Mike Manco are golfing here at Grandezza net Thur. then he & Bonnie will meet us for dinner.  Mike is a GREAT golfer w/a very low handicap. So maybe he will carry Fred w/the league they are playing with!  Fred's illness & bad elbow are not allowing him to play good golf.  How great to get together w/high school friends.

Thanks for all the words to help us go thru Winston's passing.  This is the first time we have ever had a dog long enough to have to put him down.  He would have been 12 in May.  But life goes on, and we are getting used to his not greeting us at the door or lying on Fred's chest watching a ball game every nite.  It's now in the high nineties and getting very humid down here.  Will be home in time for a nice spring we hope. 

Hope we have a lot of attendees at the bday party.  You never know. 

Fred Thomas

She was always behind me.

Th and Ti close as can be.

Alphabetic destiny,

Inevitability,

Surely a fait accompli,

Sadly it was not to be.

Alan Greenleaf

Great one Fred!  I had the same issue with Gre and Gru!

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Alan...you are alive!!  When you're in Columbus sometime, let's meet for lunch.  It's time someone come to Columbus instead of my always having to come up to Cleveland, right??  Anyway, glad you are back on the Forum sometimes.

Fred, how was your cruise??

Fred Thomas

Our recent cruise was wonderful.  I was even inspired to do a dance with some black Caribes.  We have been on over 30 cruises and they were all good.  I used to try to convince people that cruises were great and all the cruise ship illnesses and other disasters were a small exception.  But now I tell people not to go so the cruise lines will give us better deals.  I recently saw a one week cruise for $189 but unfortunetl we couldn;t go.  If you haven't been don't bother to go, please.  

Fred Thomas

50's and 60's Rock & Roll fantasies

Sometimes I daydream about hitting the lottery but afterall, "I have all the riches one man can claim".

Or I might have sexual fantasies and yet I have already sung, "Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed".

But my favorite thoughts are of my teenage years and "She's sixteen, beautiful and mine", "Be my little baby" , "you know her when you see her, blue eyes and a pony tail" and " a wiggle when she walks and a giggle when she talks".

Those songs made a lot of sense when I was cruising to the drive-in with my honey.  At least they made more sense than the "crap in learned in high school". Ah, yes those were the days!.

Linda Peate (Powrie)

Or Fred, "Who wears short shorts"  and others!!  You are crazy.  Had dinner w/Mike Manco & Bonnie his wife last nite in Fl.  We had so much fun.  He and my husband had a lot in common & not all good way back then!!

Yep, Mike (or Buddy), I am on again.

Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)

Time for some fun!  Let's go cruisin' !!!!!