On New Year’s Eve, Robbie and I celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary in Hudson, Wisconsin. We again stayed at the Phipps Inn Bed and Breakfast, hosted by Mary Ellen and Rich Cox. (See the album from 2005.)
We ate dinner on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at the San Pedro Cafe in downtown Hudson where the food, service, and atmosphere are always fabulous.
Collin and Amanda brought their new dog Izzy with them from NJ and stayed with us in Northfield for a almost week, as did Grandma Audrey Richard. Gilly, Graham and Tyson camped out with us Xmas eve and Xmas day, too. Our old neighbors, the Kaufman’s, came for Xmas eve, as did our friend, Barbara Burke. And Grandma Audre Wigley held a family party at her condo a couple days after Xmas.
See the album of 114 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
I’ve compiled all my web-based info about me using Google Profile. See it at google.com/profiles/griffinjay. (People who are in my Google Contacts can see more info about me than the general public.)
My griffinjay profile comes up at the bottom of the first page of a Google search on my name, Griff Wigley. The word Griff is currently third in a Google search on the word, linking to my business site, Wigley and Associates.
The word Wigleys, currently 1st in a Google search, links here to the Wigleys of Mendota.
My civic blog site, Locally Grown (aka LoGro and LoGroNo and LGN), is currently 1st in a Google search.
Kimberly Reed was the photographer for Collin and Amanda’s wedding last month. She has a blog post up containing a couple dozen photos from the event.
All I can say is WOW.
Turkey and all the fixin’s, with a visit from our friend, Barbara Burke.
I took the photos, Robbie did the cropping. See 200+ photos in six albums:
I saw Graham off at the airport this morning. He’s heading to Jamaica for a week on a mission trip with two friends, Isaac Anderson and TJ Roovers. TJ’s parents, Mary Pat Roovers and Tom Roovers (see Tom’s St. Norbert alum profile for more), established an organization called Helping Hands which "coordinates shipments of materials and supplies to Jamaica as well as schedules multiple mission trips each year, constructing houses, schools, medical clinics and providing medical care to the needy."
It’s run out of their church, St. Matthew, in Wausau, Wisconsin. The image on the right above is from the cover of the church’s June bulletin, showing photos of Helping Hands volunteers.
The guys will be working in and around the town of Maggotty, in the parish of St. Elizabeth.
After a day of dirt biking, we went to the Blue Door Pub in St. Paul for dinner, courtesy of Tyson who bartends there.
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The whole fam damily went dirt biking yesterday at a gravel pit near Cannon City. I hauled my Montesa trials bike and my best buddy Jim Douglas lent us his pickup trucked loaded up with a fat tire dirt scooter, a Suzuki trail bike, and his Sherco trials bike. It was Gilly’s first-ever clutch-driven motorcycle experience and after getting the hang of it on the trail bike, she quickly got the hang of the no-seat trials bike. Collin, Tyson and Graham beat the piss out of the trials bikes on the big sandy hillclimbs, while scotter-mounted Amanda splattered mud everywhere, much of on herself. Robbie took the photos and I pretty much stuck to coaching. I never thought I’d see this day. What a memory-maker.
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Robbie’s women’s group threw a wedding shower for Collin and Amanda last night at Ray and Ellen Cox’s house.
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