August 2003

Updated Thursday, September 04, 2003                 

August 22, 2003 (addendum)

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August 22, 2003

Dad is mending, he had surgery on his knee to reattach the ligaments to his kneecap on Tuesday. My YES meeting for tomorrow has been moved to Sept 6, so I am thinking of going up to help out Betty.

Note from Donald:

Hi John,
   I haven’t written in a while since there hasn’t been a lot of news.
Stephen is staying with me in California until school starts after Labor
Day.  He has been keeping busy.  He loves his on-line gaming (Cyber-Athlete
League).  He also took a driver’s education class (he will be eligible for
a trainer’s permit in December), takes twice weekly weight training classes
at the Y, has been on hang gliding trips with me and this week is going to
a nice day camp (www.kennolyn.com) in the Santa Cruz redwoods.  His
favorite activity there is the high rope course.

   Stephanie is finding it challenging to live, work and get along alone in
the big city (LA/Hollywood).  She is doing well in school (all A’s since
she came to CA) at Santa Monica Junior College.  She is making a lot of
friends, some of whom are teaching her how to surf.  Her work keeps her
very busy and she meets dozens of celebrities there.  She seems to run into
other celebrities through friends and at parties.  She’s finding it a
challenge to keep the roommate situation stable (they come and go) and
she’s trying to manage a better car.  She is tired of her old one,
especially since it doesn’t have air conditioning which is a big problem in
the LA summer.  She still wants to go to UCLA or SCU full time next year.
   
My work is keeping me very busy.  Yesterday there was a Rod & Motorcycle
show at IBM so I showed my MG Midget again.  The big news relates to my
hang-gliding.  After 5 1/5 years of active gliding (and 10 years after I
first tried it) I have obtained my Advanced Pilot (Hang IV) rating.  This
means that I will be able to fly any site I can get to.  There are a few
Hang V pilots in the US, but most US pilots advance only to Hang IV.  I am
looking forward to flying in Yosemite Park, which is a site limited to Hang
IV and a site that new Hang IV pilots traditionally fly to celebrate the
new rating.  I’ve been having fun flying recently and have even been
pioneering a couple of new sites with friends.
  There is a chance that I will be in FL near the end of October.  If I can
swing it I’ll come to visit family on the west FL coast.
      Later,
         Don

August 21, 2003

Sorry, I have been working 12 to 16 hour days and have not been diligent in getting this updated. Lots of pictures this time!!!! 

Happy birthday Jim, Al and AJ soon to come too!

Thanks Amy for the neat e-card!!

Blue Heron in my back yard.

A note from another engineer (shark attack?!):

I thought you might find this interesting.  The northeastern United States at 11:15 P.M., August 14 looks like a bite had been taken out of it.

Alan

AWESOME PICTURE!

August 20, 2003

Note and pictures from Sue:Hi John, Sorry I missed your call (again!) tonight – I was at the hospital’s Support Group meeting – the group that provides support to the families in ER crises. I hope, by now, that all of our siblings are aware of Aunt Shirley’s death, but if you want to pass on the funeral plans, the service will be at 10:30 am on Friday at the First Baptist Church in Marblehead.  I spoke with Sunny this evening and she thinks that family members may meet at Aunt Shirley’s house for a while after the refreshment-type gathering at the church (which will immediately follow the service). Here are the pictures I promised you of Michael and Beth’s new daughter.  I’m sure Beth has taken better ones but these are representative of what I managed to get.  Chloe Rose McVetty was born at 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12th , weighing in at 5 lbs. 10 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long.  She seems to be a calm, content baby (thanks to two competent parents) and is growing fast – already having exceeded her birth weight!  These pictures were of her at 3 days of age. Talk with you soon. Susan

Another angel!

Note and pictures from Darrell:

Alyssa Hayley Herrick, dedicated at Calgary Community Church, 08-17-03.
Justin is in Italy (Aviana Air Force Base) with Brianna waiting for
Aylssa and Jody to fly over and join him, should be this month sometime.

Isn’t she cute!

August 18, 2003

Note from Heather:

Hello everyone – more Payton photos attached.  We are all doing great here – enjoying an absolutely beautiful summer still, which has been great for Payton (and so for all of us!).  He loves being outside, so it has been perfect.  He is saying lots of words now, and lots of animal sounds, with the cow as current favorite.

We’re trying to get everything ready for the new baby, due in exactly 6 weeks.  I can’t believe how fast it has gone, but from what I hear just about everyone feels that way about a second baby!  Get ready for lots of pictures again – hopefully we will keep up the way we did with Payton.  They grow and change so fast when they’re really little, so we will try to keep you all up to date.

Love,
Heather, Michael and Payton

August 5, 2003

Pictures  from David and Jean!

John here are some pictures for the home page.  I will send them in two e-mails.   Jean

August 3, 2003

If you have a little time, I have created a slide show of some pictures of the past:

http://www.herrickhomepage.com/memories/default.htm

Pictures and note from AMY!

We were driving home the other night about 8 in the evening and we saw 2 hot air balloons in the distance.  As we were driving nearer, I noticed that they were descending, and since it was near a lot of open space, I guessed that they must be landing, especially when I saw a chase van go by, so we chased too, and we got to watch them both land!!  Sarah had a blast.  It was especially cool for her as Roger’s Ballooning book is one of her favorites to look through…so now she’s seen one land in real life!!  I didn’t get many good pictures, but I’m sending a few.  In one, I told her to “point to the balloon”, so she pointed to both (you can guess that we were between the two!!)

Things are going well.  We had a babysitter last weekend and she broke our couch (It was a recliner couch) so I am now couch shopping.  Other than that not much else is new. 

I hope the attached pics aren’t too big–I shrunk them quite a bit : )

I love you!  Amy

ATTACHED PICTURES WERE AWESOME!!!!!!!>>>>>

 
2004Donald 
2005David and Jean’s Housewarming party,
       Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine		 
2006Darrell & Marilyn 
2007Dan 
2008Sue and Al 
2009John 
2010Donald