<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Family @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Family) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:36:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Family @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Happy 40th Anniversary, Mom and Dad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/happy_40th_anniversary.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/happy_40th_anniversary.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5F40th%5Fanniversary</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mom and Dad - hope it was a good day.&nbsp; I&#39;m so glad you guys got together and stayed together.&nbsp; Here&#39;s to 40 more!]]></description></item><item><title>Is it a...duck?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_it_aduck.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_it_aduck.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Fit%5Faduck</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s Max&#39;s latest masterpiece]]></description></item><item><title>Family Photo of the Week Series: 8/8/07</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/hey_look_at_who_i_married.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/hey_look_at_who_i_married.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hey%5Flook%5Fat%5Fwho%5Fi%5Fmarried</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look at who I married nine years ago today.&nbsp; This handsome guy - J.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Family Photo of the Week Series: (7/19/07)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_photo_of_the_week_71907.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_photo_of_the_week_71907.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=family%5Fphoto%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fweek%5F71907</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Isn&#39;t this a great photo? I love this picture. &nbsp; This is my dad and his brother, circa 1945.&nbsp; My dad is the one on the tricycle, and his brother, Dave, is pushing.&nbsp; The facial expressions are fantastic: one is concentrating hard on]]></description></item><item><title>A week at the cottage and a funeral</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/a_week_at_the_cottage_and_a_funeral.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/a_week_at_the_cottage_and_a_funeral.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fweek%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fcottage%5Fand%5Fa%5Ffuneral</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My family is a rather low-key bunch of vacationers.&nbsp; Every year we rent a set of cottages on a lake in Fremont, MI.&nbsp;&nbsp; The week is set aside for hard-core loafing: nothing is scheduled, no serious outings are planned.&nbsp; It&#39;s a w]]></description></item><item><title>Rest in peace, Aunt Sharon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/rest_in_peace_aunt_sharon.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/rest_in_peace_aunt_sharon.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rest%5Fin%5Fpeace%5Faunt%5Fsharon</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are still on vacation, and it&#39;s pretty hard to get to the internet here - I&#39;m on the library computer.&nbsp; But I wanted to mark this.&nbsp; This morning at 5:05, my Aunt Sharon died.&nbsp; She was in terrible health; almost all of her sy]]></description></item><item><title>Family Photo of the Week Series, 5/30/07</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_photo_of_the_week_series_53007.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/family_photo_of_the_week_series_53007.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=family%5Fphoto%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fweek%5Fseries%5F53007</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Lately I&#39;ve been doing some scanning and photo archiving.&nbsp; My mom lent me some albums and loose photos to scan.&nbsp; It&#39;s a time consuming task, but I like having my own copies of this stuff.&nbsp; Since I&#39;ve got them now, I t]]></description><category>family photos</category></item><item><title>The send-Max-to-Preschool garage sale</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_sendmaxtopreschool_garage_sale.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/the_sendmaxtopreschool_garage_sale.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 01:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsendmaxtopreschool%5Fgarage%5Fsale</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So today was my first garage sale - the first one I&#39;ve ever held, at least.&nbsp; Boy, it was a lot of work.&nbsp; The sorting, the marking, the getting up and hauling, the organizing, the clean up.&nbsp; Whew!&nbsp; I&#39;m tired tonight.&nbsp;]]></description><category>garage sales</category><category>single income families</category></item><item><title>Amy Marie</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/amy_marie.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/amy_marie.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 21:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=amy%5Fmarie</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Born July 4, 1918, not an auspicious year for a birth, what with a World War raging and the worst global epidemic since the Plague dropping people like flies.&nbsp;]]></description><category>family</category><category>family photos</category></item><item><title>Up North</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/up_north.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/up_north.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=up%5Fnorth</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J., Max, Rosie and I are up here in Petoskey for four days on sabbatical.&nbsp; Can I say how much I love coming up north?&nbsp; First of all, the Petoskey area is gorgeous.&nbsp; If the winter wasn&#39;t a month longer and my family wasn&#39;t all i]]></description></item><item><title>Aunt Sharon&apos;s quilt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_sharons_quilt.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_sharons_quilt.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aunt%5Fsharons%5Fquilt</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I finished this one last night, just in time for her birthday.                      And I did this little one for Tunie with the scraps.  &n]]></description><category>quilting</category><category>quilts</category></item><item><title>Gone, baby, gone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/gone_baby_gone.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/gone_baby_gone.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gone%5Fbaby%5Fgone</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[202 S. Monroe is no longer in Pettigrove family possession.  I helped Mom and Dad move yesterday (though Dad and K. did all the heavy lifting) and went over with Mom today to clean.  Even though I was busy, and, therefore, somewhat detached]]></description></item><item><title>Goodbye, 202 S. Monroe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/goodbye_202_s_monroe.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/goodbye_202_s_monroe.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goodbye%5F202%5Fs%5Fmonroe</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sad news tonight. The old homestead is sold. Mom and Dad bought it 22 years ago this August, and will be out of it by Labor Day. Why is it when you want a house to sell, like we all wanted my sister's house to sell so much, it takes forever and w]]></description></item><item><title>Selling the family estate</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/selling_the_family_estate.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/selling_the_family_estate.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=selling%5Fthe%5Ffamily%5Festate</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No, not this one. This is my grandparents' farm, located in Hart, MI, circa probably 1970. They sold it twenty years ago when I was about 15. I was terribly sad to see it go as I had (and have) many happy memories of walking back into the acreage]]></description></item><item><title>Happy (belated) Mother&apos;s Day, Mom</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/happy_belated_mothers_day_mom.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/happy_belated_mothers_day_mom.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=happy%5Fbelated%5Fmothers%5Fday%5Fmom</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mom, this picture is pretty telling.  You look like a picture of serenity, and that's only because you are.  Really.  You're practically unflappable.  Which is not to say that you have no emotions.  I know you have em]]></description></item><item><title>Archival project</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/archival_project.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/archival_project.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=archival%5Fproject</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, after years of saying I was going to (well, at least since we got a scanner - which is, perhaps, 3 years) I finally got an old photo album from my parents' basement and started scanning.  I really wanted copies of many of these old photo]]></description></item><item><title>Easter egg hunt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/easter_egg_hunt.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/easter_egg_hunt.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=easter%5Fegg%5Fhunt</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Max, J., Bumpa, Nana, and I all went to an Easter egg hunt this morning at St. Timothy's. They had quite a 'do. We barely made it for the egg hunt as everyone was slow in getting out of the house, but Max did pick up about six and they had ki]]></description></item><item><title>Aunt S. is doing very poorly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s_is_doing_very_poorly.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s_is_doing_very_poorly.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aunt%5Fs%5Fis%5Fdoing%5Fvery%5Fpoorly</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My aunt is not doing well at all. In the past year her kidneys have failed her, requiring her to be on dialysis three times a week. She's had heart problems, her numerous eye surgeries have yielded no real improvement, and she's fallen over a]]></description></item><item><title>No resolutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/no_resolutions.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/no_resolutions.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fresolutions</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I find that making resolutions on this day doesn't really work for me. I have made a few lifestyle changes, such as walking everyday, but these were made when I reached the point when I felt things were getting out of hand and therefore had bette]]></description></item><item><title>Aunt S.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/aunt_s.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aunt%5Fs</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My Aunt S. is doing extremely poorly right now with complications from the diabetes she let go untreated for 15 years. She's blind, can't move because of her swollen ankles and some degenerative muscle disease, and is currently in the hospita]]></description></item></channel></rss>