What happened to the "Mac Doctor"
page ?
Creative Software Design, Mike's
Macintosh consulting business, has closed. While periodic support
for existing clients continues, future business is not being
solicited (unless the customer is willing to pay a revised consulting
rate of $500 per hour) See the CSD link for a phone number to
call.
The Connecticut McLanes
For activities later than January 2005, click on the "Main
Menu" link at the top of this page.
January 2005. Only one
week late, the Grahams join us for the annual New Year's Eve
celebration. Some of the more memorable shots are here.
November 04 Our final
visit to Bear Creek, leaving the day that the Parry's movers
were arriving. We were pleased to share in Chloe's joy at having
her braces removed. Here are few of the pictures of her.
Here are more pictures of the weekend visit.
Oct 10th.. Thirty four
years after our first visit, we again saw the beautiful Whipoorwill
Morgan houses in Old Lyme, CT. A few of the pictures are here.
Sep 28th.. We attended
the 50th. reunion of Mike's high school graduating class. A few
of the more memorable pictures can be found here.
A few other shots of earlier school years can be found under
the "School Friends" link in the left margin of this
page. Scroll down after that link opens to see them all.
Aug 28th.. We got a great
deal on a timeshare in Tierra Verde, Florida (in the Tampa Bay
area) and just had to take advantage of it. You can go to the
first of 8 linked pages by clicking here.
The links to all the pages are at the bottom of each page. Enjoy
visiting only those attractions of interest.
July 3rd. After we got
back from our trip we had a very large tree (growing very near
the house) removed. First we have a series of pictures howing
how things looked from the front yard as the tree was taken down.
Click here
to watch the slide show. Then go here
to see some selected shots showing the size of this monster tree,
close up.
June 22nd. We just returned
from a great trip down the Danube river. Set aside some time
if you want to see the many pictures which start by clicking
here
May 31st. A wonderful
weekend, attending Mike Parry's graduation from Wyoming Seminary.
A few of the best pictures are here
May 15th. Kristen Olson's
wedding, pictures here
April 28th-May 8th. We
had a very good time house-sitting for the Bear Creek Parrys.
Some pictures are available here
March 24th, 2004 Just
received! Some additional pictures of the Denver trip (see next
entry) but these were taken by Chris and Kelly, Click here
March 21st, 2004 We had
a great visit with Chris and family near Denver where Chris is
stationed at Buckley Air Base. Check out a few pictures here
February 16, 2004 Just
back from a quick visit to see Betty and George Weller in Fort
Lauderdale. Wouldn't you know that it was Spring Break. To see
some of the "sights" just click here
January 15, 2004 If you
have "QuickTime" on your computer you can take a look
at a movie that I made featuring Justice. Just click here
January, 2004 The Grahams
hosted the alternating New Year's Eve celebration A few of our
pictures are here
and Bob's offerings are here
October, 2003 This year's
trick-or-treaters were all well behaved and cute as buttons.
The pictures will change every 10 seconds, automatically. Check
them out here
October, 2003 Mike's 45th.
Homecoming reunion at the Naval academy was a wonderful trip,
except for the narrow loss of the football game. A few pictures
are here
October, 2003 Off to beautiful
Palm Springs, CA with Dave and Sharon Stryker. We did a lot of
things in a bit more than a week, and most of them are documented
here
July, 2003 Our bell choir
director at church gets married - beautiful ceremony and beautiful
bride pictures.
June, 2003 A wonderful
visit with Chris, Kelly and Kathleen. There are a few selected
pictures here
April 2003 Becky, the
breeder from whom we got Star and Justice asked me to provide
an "Update" on there lives. You can see the pictures
here.
January 2003 Our trip
to the Bahamas is available if you click here.
Halloween 2002 Some of
our trick-or-treet callers are shown here
October 2002 We enjoyed
a wonderful evening with other members of St. David's church
in Gales Ferry. Check out some of the pictures here
and be sure to check the link at the bottom of that page
to see some rather "unusual" animals at the recent
Blessing of the Animals service.
7 August 2002 A
wonderful day trip to the Norman
Rockwell Museum.
23 Jun-5 Jly 2002 A wonderful cruise to Norway with several classmates,
spouses and friends. Cruise pictures can be seen here (it takes a while for this page to load) and
a special addendum which takes the place of my planned "Nudes
of Norway" page can be found here.
16 June 2002
Check here
see the Father's Day cards that the cats gave me this morning.
2 June 2002
You may already have seen smaller versions of these Justice pictures,
but I wanted to post larger ones here.
21-22 April 2002 We travel to Austin, Texas to visit long-time
friends, Kaye & Randy Patterson Here are some pictures from a most enjoyable visit
(once we found their house).
19-20 April 2002 See
selected pictures of friends from over
20 years ago. We visited Texas to relive memories with friends
from our tour in Italy in the late 1970's. A wonderful little
Texas town and a good time was had by all.
26 Jan 2002
We had a wonderful trip to the Bahamas to visit Tony and Elaine,
friends from our Hawaii days. A few of the pictures are here.
Happy New Year! Jan 2002 The annual New Year's tradition continues.
We travel to Dallas, this time, to be with Bob and Peg. Some
of our pictures are here
.
14 October
Bette, a friend from your high school days comes to visit. See
some of the activities here
26-27 September
In search of family tree information, we head to Northeastern
Mass. to search for information on the Coffins and Starbucks.
Part of the findings are shown here
10 September
We visited a cat show at Ella Grosso Tech in Groton. We bought
a little something for our cats, which you can see them using
by clicking here
9~20 August
We had a wonderful time on a cruise of the Baltic with other
members of the Naval Academy class of 1958, spouses and two wives
whose husbands have "gone on ahead" of the rest of
us.
Here are the people
in our group.
You may wish to view The
Babes of the Baltic.
Finally, we have 4 linked pages showing
our
shore excursions.
07/31/2001
The Justice saga continues. Here
the tale is told.
07/18/2001
Justice joins our family. .Here
are some pictures of the first several
days.
06/30/2001
The trip to Harpswell, Maine was great!.Click
here to get the full story.
10/14/2000 The
saga of Star's Connecticut arrival has "graduated"
to her breeder's web page. Her pictures can now be found here.
9/25/2000 Cindy's
high school reunion was a wonderful weekend! A few of the pictures
are here
and here is a link to her class web page which has more
pictures.
6/26/2000 I'm including
a link to a page showing STAR, our new-cat-to-be. She is still
with the breeder, taking care of her last litter of kittens.
We did take a few pictures during our visit
to see STAR after the birth. These pictures are now on the breeder's
web page but the link is here.
1/07/2000 After a relatively
short battle with what appears to have been a cancer, we lost
our small cat, Lira. Here is a photo
from better days.
November 1999 Of course,
sometimes things come up that cause Mike to see red. One example
was the recent phone bill which prompted him to submit the following article to our local newspaper.
1982 Our electronic story
starts with 1982 photographs from The
Queen's Birthday Party, an annual event held in Mystic, Connecticut,
and hosted by the British Exchange Officer from Submarine Development
Squadron Twelve. These pictures were scanned from our files in
1998 when a friend, Frank Caldwell, died very unexpectedly. Looking
for pictures to submit to a memory book for his family I came
across one that captured Frank's fun-loving spirit. It was taken
at the Queen's Birthday Party. I also found the picture of Holly
and Tom prior to their marriage, attending the same party. Also,
Bob & Peg Graham, friends to this day, are shown in all their
summer finery. I'd like to think we all still look this good,
today.
Early in his web page work, Mike learned how to "manipulate"
pictures. One example is a picture that never existed. To see
what I mean, click here and follow
the instructions near his picture. Another example was a page
we made to show one of Cindy's friends a picture of "our boat". And finally, if you
want to make a "political" statement about your favorite office holder, just dig up
some pictures of his early life.
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