Aunt Helga

When the Wall fell, my aunt Helga got to go to where she grew up for the 1st time since 13 August 1961. While there, she got to see her mother's grave, and be at her father's side when he died. The DDR government wouldn't let her go home on that day in 1961, when she'd gone shopping in West Berlin. Her parents brought her money and her documents, and she got on the first flight to the US, ending up in Columbus, OH, and not long after, meeting my uncle Gilbert and marrying him.

Entertainingly to me, her maiden name is Siebenhaar.

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Company Store sent me an email, subj: Summer-weight comforters for cool nights. Where i live, and a huge swath of the continent from here to the south and west, if it's cool enough for a comforter in the summer, something is seriously wrong, unless you're up in the mountains.

Submarines and Snow

( In the town where i was born, lived a man who... )

We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

182, 273, 282, 455, 281, 353, 586 & 1066: those were the numbers of my yellow submarines. I never, in 13 years of K-12 school, had to walk to school. I was always bused. My HS class chose Yellow Submarine as our class song, as most of us spent at least an hour riding to school.

Virgnia "Ginny" Mondgrain drove me to school for most of those 13 years. Her grandson Jimmy would be with us sometimes in the afternoons coming home from HS. ( Invariably... )

So we got back on the bus at 11:30. I got home that night at 19:00. So 7ish hours getting home that day. If i recall, neary half of all students in Fairfax County and Fairfax City did not get home that night. And Bob Spillane learned that here in DC, we do not do Winter like up in Boston.