Summertime and the living is easy.........

 When I was still teaching, July 4th was the signal for the downhill race of summer vacation. Now that I'm retired every day is the same, so I can enjoy the celebration fully.

I hope everyone has been doing well and staying healthy (and, as of recently, staying cool on these hot days).

I have a picture from our last DEAR lunch and an invitation to all to our next one on July 20th.

The date for the next DEAR Friends lunch is Thursday, July 20th at 12:30 at Dooney's in Delran.

Hope you can make it!

I also had the opportunity to attend the DEA Retirement lunch that same week. So many people I didn't know. I mostly concentrated my photos on our DEAR Friends group members and special people like Becky Smith and Kathryn Schneider.

Here's my photo collection from that day.

Just a few news bits. Congratulations to Bruce and Rosemary for finding their new home. Condolences to Ron Caracci for the passing of his ex-wife.

Please feel free to add any photos or news bits that you have to share by commenting on this post or writing to me.

Sad News to Share

   This is a photo of  our retired colleague Mary Anninos with her husband, Peter. I think it is from 1995, possibly at her retirement. (?)

    Sadly, Hazel wrote to me today and asked me to let you know that Peter passed away on May 13th.

    Our condolences to Mary and her family. May he rest in peace.

Peter and Mary Anninos

    I found this obituary and funeral information

     

Lunch at Dooneys May 2023

A good time was had by all!

Marcia, Jimmy and Rosina, Susan, Ginny, Karen, Judy, Roberta, Bruce and Rosemary

November 2014 photo

 Found photo:

This appears to be from November 2014. I can see it is an Association meeting of some kind and I see some Delran attendees. I am thinking it is regarding retirement. What do you think? And who do you recognize? :-)

Margie and Friends

 I'm looking forward to seeing everybody at our next lunch on May 4th.

Meanwhile, I recently checked in with Marge Gessmann and she shared a photo from Florida -

with this comment:

 Nancy Fanelli lives in the same complex we do. Barb Doreste and Ruth Feldman live nearby. Ruth is still teaching but her husband retired and lives here full time. He’s waiting for her to retire. 

First DEAR lunch of 2023

 

We met at Dooney's in Delran for the first time in 2023 on April 5th. It was good to see everyone and share greetings from those who couldn't join us as well.

Here are some photos- the first since the shutterfly share site shutdown.

We had the Smiths, the Anthonys, the Ianonnes, Judy Harrington, Kris Minnix, Marcia Konieczka, Ginny Morales, and me.

First I had stopped at a nearby pizza place to say hi to Ron Caracci and Kathryn Schneider (on her earlier lunch break).

We had a good time catching up and eating. 

Happy Passover and Easter. May the fourth be with you! (That's our next meeting date - Thursday, May 4th. Hope to see you there!)

Hope to see you soon!

 We finally have a lunch date set after all these months and we are looking forward to getting together at long last.

Please note that many of the links on former posts on this blog will not work, due to the closing of Shutterfly's share sites. :-(

How's your winter been? Although I remember snow here in April once years ago, I think I am safe to say that here in the Delran area this winter has been basically snow free and I am not sorry about that.

Guess what I got a few days ago? The NJ ANCHOR $1500! You? Nice surprise. (For those of you not involved anymore, that's the latest version of  property tax relief in our state).

How are you all doing? Feel free to comment below and catch us up on you!