I was privileged to spend time with my Uncle Joe’s family this weekend, as we celebrated Joe’s life. He lived to the ripe old age of 95. The photo is of a sunset over a farm near Kalona, Iowa.
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Dear Blogger friends, Susan nominated me for Versatile Blogger award! Here is a link to her blog: https://rhythminlife.net/2017/05/01/the-rose/
Susan, I am honored to have been chosen. I have so many blogs I follow, I don’t know where to start in nominating any of them for the Versatile Blogger award.
Some facts about me:
- I was born and raised in Kalona, Iowa, and then going on to Harrisonburg, Virginia for college studies.
- Met my wife there, and we were married between my 3rd year of college, and my 4th year (Internship in Medical Technology).
- Worked for 8.5 years in the Immunopathology Lab at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics before taking a position as School Principal in Northwestern Ontario.
- While in Ontario, I acquired my private pilots license and flew some 440 hours (Most of the landings on lakes with a Luscombe) before moving to Ohio in 1992.
- I spent 8.5 years in Bangladesh doing member care for several families
- I have knitted 3 sweaters, love crossword puzzles, chess, hiking, travel and photography.
- Have a lovely wife, two sons, and three grandsons, who are teenagers.
- Bengali curries are at the top of my list of favorite foods.
- I do remember when the hula hoop was invented, and actually collected a blood specimen from the inventor for analysis, when he was in the hospital!
- I learned to use the “slide rule” which was made obsolete with the invention of the calculator.
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