Updated  Tuesday, August 06, 2002                 


February 26, 2002

Note from David:

  David and Jean Herrick are pleased to announce the arrival of our newest
grandchild, PAYTON DAVID LIVINGSTONE. Born 7:20 A.M.(Scotland time) to proud
parents Michael and Heather Livingstone.
  Mother and baby doing fine (this you can believe Dad Herrick)
                      David

 

February 25, 2002

Been busy, Friday Fiddlers, Saturday Jim came over and we played chess (beat him twice!) then Jackie came over, watched a movie, Sunday worked in the back yard, went to dinner with Phil, then met Southern Comfort Bill and Canada John at Captain K's where I met Colleen from M\New Zealand. She is "on holiday" so I will be joining her to go to the Aquarium this afternoon!
Darrell wrote:

Hey all,
 
We just got back from a wet weekend camping. Thank goodness for dry, warm campers with furnaces and microwaves. Our kind of camping. We watched movies and ate and ate and ate. It was a nice get away and back to work tomorrow. I loaded a bunch of photos on my own home page...bare bones but its a good way to post photos for family and friends to see. Hope everyone is healthy and happy. I vote that Dad took the 2002 spot on your list John. Once a decade is long enough for Al to put up with the Herrick's ;-)
 
My web page is:

http://www.msnusers.com/HerrickFamilyinClearwaterFlorida

Love to all

Darrell and Marilyn 

 

February 22,2002

It has been an interesting time, I painted the front of the condo Wednesday night, then went up to Betty and dad's for dinner last night. My first real meal in a week! They gave me a patio table and chairs for use as a dining table! It looks nice, for now, it works; now I have two chairs in the house! 
Thanks for the check Dan, you did not have to do that! You guys had to pay to get here, I did not, but right now it will come in very handy, Thanks. 
I finally get everything in it's place, and a phone on every floor (thanks to Dan). I have no shelves nor tables (and no mantle either!) so it is easy to clean up tomorrow (tonight is Fiddlers). Sue and Al gave me the wedge from the giant tree we cut down. I fastened it to the wall under the phone in the garage. It now is a convenient "table" to take notes while on the phone; and a nice reminder of our trip to Vermont last year. I need to build a new mantle and a workbench in the garage, well it will have to wait awhile until the dust settles and I have finances.
At the bottom of this page is the list of places and years we were going to get together. Shall we assume that our meeting at dad's was our 2002 meeting? Or does everyone want to go to Sue and Al's sometime this year? Sugaring time? Plant garden time? Harvest time? Cut firewood time? Please get back to me, thanks. Now that I have my place back, I am back on track for 2003!!!!!!!

February18, 2002

I worked on MY HOME for hours this weekend. It was so satisfying. I saw a lady out in the mangroves, so I went out to see what was going on, she was cleaning out the weeds and detritus that had floated in so I decided to help. I lopped off the mangrove bushes that had grown up past 6 feet tall and trimmed the suckers that had grown out of the trunks of the mangrove trees. We worked from 2PM till dark. This improved the view considerably. 

Since Sept 11, there has been a great change in our community. Instead of complaining that the condo has not done enough to keep up the buildings, everyone has pitched in! We are painting the entire outside ourselves! They got 600 gallons of paint and everyone has pitched in! We cleaned the mangroves, and, with the new roof, everything is looking super!!

Note from Dan,

I've got a little good news too.   I took my Instrument rating check ride this past Saturday, 2-16-02.  It was a beautiful day although challenging since the air was warming rapidly and that created a very bouncy and unstable ride.  But despite a shaky (nervous) start and with every effort to on my part, I passed and now have my instrument rating.  Yeah... I don't have to go through that ever again.  Now I'm considering wrapping up my flight training with a commercial rating, only need another 65 hours and not too much more money on lessons.  My next door neighbor just became a Certified Flight Instructor and has two planes that are high performance, complex airplanes needed for some of those hours.  With a Commercial rating I could recoup some of my expenditures on flying by occasionally flying for a local scenic flying company or flying fire patrols during the summer (looking for forest fires).  Just what I need, another summer job....

Love

Dan

February 16, 2002

It is soooo great living in my own home. The view is as great as I every remembered it, the place has a new roof and I will be painting the outside next. Now, with a new roof, new hardwood floors, new furniture, I have quite the new place!

I plan on going to the State Fair tomorrow, a new lease on life! Wish me luck!

February 14, 2002 Valentines Day.

IT IS A NEW DAY!!!!!!

I am divorced.

I own the house.

I have my own car (free and clear).

I have my big screen TV, couch and bed.

I am done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

February 13, 2002(update)

Dad's home has been sold! I have to get out this weekend!!!! I now am truly homeless!!!!!! Tomorrow is the hearing on my house, hope I get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise, anyone got a cot I can stretch out on!

February 13, 2002

Donald sent me one of the pictures taken while we went hang gliding! Note the "thumbs up" by Stephanie!!

February 12, 2002

Glad everybody came down for the wedding; hope everyone's package gets to them soon. I lost 12 pounds last weekend but I would not recommend the process to anyone. I finally have the house presentable for sale.

I have initiated a hearing Thursday, wish me luck!

February 5, 2002 (update)

Roger Bansemer has supplied an image of his painting for those who want to download it:

http://www.herrickhomepage.com/tedandbetty.jpg

February 5, 2002

Don, Stephanie, Jean and I spent the afternoon hang gliding!

Stephanie and world record holder Rick.

Me getting ready.

Rick and I getting towed up!!!

February 4, 2002

I got a note from Rod, our newest brother, he has the best pictures I have ever seen of a wedding!!

I have put a link below to get to some of the pictures I took at the wedding on Saturday. Just click on any of the small pictures to see a large photo. At the bottom of the page are some instructions, although you probably already know how to save pictures to your own computer and then import them into a Word or WordPerfect document to resize them.

Could you please pass the address below on to everyone since I only have your e-mail addresses. Thanks!

From the "new" kid...
Rod


http://www.mrsperkins.com/wedding/wedding.htm

p.s.
It was great to meet you and I hope to get to know you and your family
better.

ANYWAY

 

What you spend years building, someone

could destroy overnight.

Build anyway.

 

If you find serenity and happiness,

they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

 

The good you do today,

people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

 

Give the world the best you have,

and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

 

You see, in the final analysis,

it is between you and God;

it was never between you and them anyway.

 

Mother Teresa

This is a test

2002 Sue & Al  
2003 John's 1st week in May
2004 Donald  
2005 David and Jean's Housewarming party,
       Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine
 
2006 Darrell & Marilyn  
2007 Dan?