Brunch at Sandra's

Our dear friend, Sandra Bass, had us over today for an elegant brunch. She knows how to do things right!

Christmas, '09

Progressive Christmas fellowship

Thanksgiving with family at Aunt Jane's

Jason @SEC championship game

Does this expression say it all???

Classmates luncheon

I was honored and delighted to have a group of our classmates for lunch at our house yesterday; we graduated 44 years ago into this wonderfully diverse profession of nursing. Present for the great fellowship were Sidney, Carol, Dot, Jackie, Janice, Millie, Bea, Ann, Jeanie, Betty, and Mary. Cute group, huh? We missed those of you who were not here.

Mini vacation to Callaway/ Warm Springs

Check out our photos of camping in the Callaway Gardens (astonishingly beautiful!) and Warm Springs area, over the Labor Day holiday. We biked for 4 1/2 hours around the Gardens, and swam (Dan swam; I dipped...) in the Warm Springs pools frequented by FDR. They are fed by the warm springs (hence the name) there, unfiltered and untreated in any way, and, interestingly, only open for swimming one weekend a year, that being Labor Day weekend. If you look closely at the pool pictures, you can see the wooden structures used for therapy for polio patients. We felt it was a unique opportunity to immerse ourselves (literally!) in a little history. The experience has piqued our interest in the disease of polio... its diagnosis, treatment, and eradication. The little town of Warm Springs seems to have literally developed as a result of the epidemic, and survives because of the history made there.