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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Grand Rapids Update

[Scenes from everyday moments of our lives. . .]

The best neighbors you can have are a family of Sand Hill Cranes: Bob, Carol and little Teddie.

the Cranes

The Grilled Cheese Fest, held at Fuller Park in Grand Rapids and sponsored by the Cheese Lady of Grand Rapids, was packed with hungry folks enjoying a gorgeous autumn afternoon.

Grilled Cheese Fest 2022






Celebrating nephew's Ben's 42nd birthday at the Rainbow Grill in Hudsonville, with his dad and gram, where I had a thoroughly scrumptious  chicken salad.

a true chicken salad

Ben's birthday

However, usually it's home cooking for us: here is my marinated pork sirloin steaks ready for the gill and baby potatoes ready for roasting.

home cooking

Back out for dinner with the Galloways where I polished off a tasty Cubano sandwich (sans pane) at Third Nature Brewery in Rockford.

Third Nature Brewery

An arboreal neighbor who has seen better days.


survivor

Susie and I took her mom to a CRC church in Byron Center one afternoon for a Lucas family reunion luncheon and sing-a-long.

songfest at the Lucas reunion

On a gorgeous September afternoon I came across these three veterans buried in Winchester Cemetery, Byron Center, Michigan. Thought you'd like to meet them.

George Otto, 126th Infantry, died in France

Levi Higby, 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery, died in New Orleans, LA



James A. Burwell, 126th Infantry, killed in the Argonne Forest, France, buried in France


Saturday, December 24, 2022

Tunis VandenBerg 1921-1999

Husband, father, grandfather, brother, son, uncle, friend and small town physician who was part of the Greatest Generation. . . Remembering his birth 101 years ago today.

c. 1943, navigator, B-24, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War Two


1942 Tunis (right) and his brother Len with Tune's new car, Grand Rapids, MI