LAST
ISSUE?
Is this the last monthly issue? It could very well be so. As most
of you Keidel family members know by now, I have started a Keidel
Family site on MyFamily.com and it’s working extremely well. Many of
you have already visited there and posted items about your families.
This site is truly becoming member-driven, which is what I have
wanted for The Keidel Update all along. The only drawback, if that is
one, is that one needs to be "invited" to visit the site and receive
a password to access the features. This is fine, but leaves family
friends out "in the cold" as it were. So, if you have any special
friends who really want to see what is going on with our family,
invite them and make them honorary family members! If any of you
would like to have access to the family site, please e-mail me and
I’ll arrange it. So, it is possible that I will cease publishing
monthly editions of this newsletter. There should still be special
editions from time to time. There is yet another site which you
should visit. My Public Room Here you can
rummage through my filing cabinet in my Public Room. LOTS of pictures
there and usually the latest roll of film I took. Be sure to click on
the "radio buttons" to the left of the file names to see the info.
Breezy is Three!
At least that what you get when you count up the anniversaries of
her birthday! Bryanna "Breezy" Elizabeth Hudman V1641-31 was born
February 29, 1988 in San Diego, California. That date will roll
around for the third time, this month! So yes, she is really 12 years
old, but will have had only four (if you count the day she was born)
Birth Days! Oh, she got the puppy "Buzz" for Christmas.
Barbie has
Baby!
HE was born at 10:10 pm, on Monday, January 17, 2000, weighed 7
lbs. 8 ozs. and was 20 1/2 inches long - he is: Nolan Bryce
Reittenbach D1331-3
The gorgeous Barbie doesn’t have a lot of photos floating around
out there, so I’ll have to make do with this old one from 1994. I had
the pleasure of meeting her that year during a visit to Michigan with
my sons Armin and Willy. Post some new pictures, Barbie!!
SNOW!
Of course now that we are living in upstate New York, we have to
deal with the expected snow! Oh yeah, Willy is getting LOTS of
exercise!
This is the view across the road.
Just a little more and my driveway markers will disappear.
Just a little more and my rust-bucket '86 Celebrity will
disappear!
Willy tries in vain to clear the driveway! Actually, my neighbor
Russ Heesh, whom I had NEVER MET BEFORE, came up the night of a BIG
storm and toiled for over an hour in the VERY COLD and plowed us out
beautifully. Had it not been for him, we would have been unable to
shop for groceries, etc. THANKS, NEIGHBOR! As I said before in a
previous issue, we love it here! We definitely made the right move!
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY wishes to good
friend and oft host George Lewis Keidel, Jr. in Maryland. To mother
and daughter Eudene (King) Keidel and Ruth Eudene (Keidel) Clemens.
They share the same date, albeit many years apart. Ruth lives in
Maryland and Mom is visiting right now in Florida; isn’t that a wise
move! And OF COURSE a very special Happy Birthday to Breezy! Enjoy
it, it’ll be four years before you will have another!
HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY to Barbie and Patrick Reittenbach in
Michigan!
Here’s Barbie again in 1994
From the
Archives:
No, that is not some very old ancestor from the Imperial Court in
St. Petersburg! It is I, dressed for my role as Inspector General of
Police Ernst Hessler in the stage play Frankenstein. Yes, the beard
is real! I performed on stage and was on the Board of Directors of
the now defunct Broome County Civic Theater in Binghamton, NY, back
in 1978!
In closing, let me entreat you once more to visit my cyber
enterprise. CLICK THIS! You’ll find lots of
interesting informational publications suitable as gifts and even a
way to "clone" this store so you can run one for yourself!
This
month in Keidel Family history ...
Febuary
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