{"id":127,"date":"2007-04-29T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-04-30T04:25:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T11:25:12","slug":"50th-thanks-lotsa-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"50th thanks (lotsa pix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great big thanks to <strong>everyone<\/strong> who made my 50th such a very, very special day.  I&#8217;ll share some of the pictures below &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Elly scanned a bunch of old pictures for a <a HREF=\"images\/poster.jpg\">&#8216;through the years&#8217; poster<\/a> [1.7 mb]<\/p>\n<p>Corey came home from school in Albany.  Fred was so happy he was dancing.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/01meandcorey.jpg\" ALT=\"fred dancing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carol made the cake and a mighty wind got all the candles first try.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/02carolcake.jpg\" ALT=\"carol and cake\" \/><img SRC=\"images\/03mightywind.jpg\" ALT=\"mighty wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David and Rosemary, what a pair.  They both wore black in mourning for my passing (the 50 mark).<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/04davidandrosemary].jpg\" ALT=\"david and rosemary\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The big surprise, Dad (with Corey) and Sandy (pictured later) came up from Florida for the bash.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/05coreyandcal.jpg\" ALT=\"corey and dad\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Corey and cousin Becky.  Becky set up the scope so we could see the crows nesting in the pines.  And she made me granola.  Another Uncle Craig mystery exposed.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/06beckyandcorey.jpg\" ALT=\"becky and corey\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charles was in charge of the speedies on the grill so I could relax.  Jack mentors Cay on her business plan in the Camry office.<\/p>\n<p><img ALIGN=\"top\" SRC=\"images\/07charles.jpg\" ALT=\"charles\" \/><img SRC=\"images\/07cayandjack].jpg\" ALT=\"jack and cay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wise ones, Eunice (my mother in law), Cal (my father) and Sandy (my stepmom).<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/08oldtimers.jpg\" ALT=\"wise ones\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I only hope that I can be half the man my dog thinks I am.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/09halftheman.jpg\" ALT=\"me and fred\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marc made me a cold frame to replace my dilapidated one in the background.  And he painted it bottle-tree blue.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/10coldframe.jpg\" ALT=\"cold frame\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sister Sue gave me a trellis, and Kim and Nance brought a Thunbergia.  And they didn&#8217;t even plan it out ahead of time.  Robert roamed his barn looking for things an eccentric gardener might do something with.  What can I plant in this disk blade?<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/11presents.jpg\" ALT=\"presents\" \/><img ALIGN=\"top\" SRC=\"images\/12disc.jpg\" ALT=\"disc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More goodies from Robert&#8217;s barn.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/12fromrobertsbarn.jpg\" ALT=\"barn goodies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A vase (rhymes with was) from the Museum of Modern Art from Steve.  I&#8217;m not sure many of my flowers are classy enough for this work of art.  Thanks Steve!<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/14momavase.jpg\" ALT=\"moma vase\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sue and Corey reading one of the weiner cards, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/15sueandcorey.jpg\" ALT=\"weiner cards\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look dear.  You open and close the card and the guy picks his nose.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/17elandme.jpg\" ALT=\"El and me\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Niece Nancy. Bowling pin vase Marc made me.  The bowling ball in the garden story will have to wait until a future blog.  But by now you should understand Marc is one serious artist.  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.marcalanfreedman.com\/\">Check out his bowls and other woodworking<\/a>.  The make great gifts.<\/p>\n<p><img ALIGN=\"top\" SRC=\"images\/16nancy.jpg\" ALT=\"nancy\" \/><img SRC=\"images\/13pinvase.jpg\" ALT=\"bowling pin vase\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lori and Paul from the balcony.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/18loriandpaul.jpg\" ALT=\"Lori and Paul\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great big thanks to everyone who made my 50th such a very, very special day. I&#8217;ll share some of the pictures below &#8230; Elly scanned a bunch of old pictures for a &#8216;through the years&#8217; poster [1.7 mb] Corey came home from school in Albany. Fred was so happy he was dancing. Carol made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50th thanks (lotsa pix)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}