Category: family

The next afternoon after Nik’s arrival …

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seven]

Arriving from Seattle in the darkness and rain …

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Six]

Not only is Ivi responsible for implementing and maintaining Velouria’s e-commerce website, she appears in many of its product photos (I spotted at least a couple of dozen in the jewelry section), as do Chika, Cat and others in the gang.  Here’s an example (photographer identity unknown):

During an ongoing tedious, disgusting but apparently obligatory review of boxes of materials formerly in storage for perhaps twenty-five years, I have come upon some pages of The NIKL Gazette.   This “publication” was something invented back in 1994 as a way to send each set of grandparents a regular newsletter of anecdotes and reports about their young grandchildren.  Some issues and individual pages are unaccounted for, but what remains gives me a chuckle now and reminds me of how easily accurate recall slips away in the absence of contemporaneous documentation.  One incident that I do remember, for which the corresponding NIKL page has not yet turned up, was when I reported that 3-year-old Nikolas, while riding in downtown Los Angeles traffic, spotted an adjacent car with a heavily dented fender and exclaimed “Look!  Earthquake damage!”.  (This, shortly after we had experienced a fairly significant local earthquake.)

Anyway, click the link below for a PDF containing what pages I have so far recovered:

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Btw, the NIKL (Nik-Ivi-Kim-Lawrence) Gazette was the predecessor to this whilebusy blog.

Ran across a few B&W images that I don’t think have ever seen the light of day.  From Janet’s celebration of life event.