Remembering Dad--November 30th

[Photo by Janice and processed by Amy]

Mother's Easter feast of 2008 is worth remembering.  This Easter Sunday photo brings together things Dad dearly loved:  family, faith and food.   

Dad, we miss you, especially today.
Love from us all

 

The Hills' Annual Visit

I have enjoyed the posts that you all have blogged in the past few months.  It's especially nice to see Yuri getting a little bigger day by day.  My last entry here was back in August so there's a little catching up to do.

Amy's folks, Gordy and Pris, and Uncle David and Aunt Beverly made their annual trek up to the North Fork for the 14th year in a row, tied to the striped bass migration heading south.  After a weekend here they fished off Nantucket for five days then came back down for two weeks of fishing here.  The weather was very windy with some rain, but when it was good enough to go out, the fish were there.

Most of these photos were taken by David and Beverly

Lunch with Grandma Kreider's Tomato Soup

Gordy and I replacing corroded rail joints

      

                             

Amy and Uncle Dave and Aunt Bev   

                               

                       

The traditional all red lobster dinner

Gordy and Dave spend a day or two every visit fishing with Peter Minnick just off the Montauk Point Light.  Peter is deaf but can understand everything that is said if he can see you speak, and he speaks nearly as well as any hearing person.  He's been a teacher at a school for the deaf for many years.  When  Peter is fishing with his back to Gordy, Gordy signals him by tapping the deck... one tap, fish to the left, two taps fish to the right.  

Gordy and Peter

They stay overnight in the house Peter has lived in since he was a boy.  It was built in the mid 1700s,  the beams are exposed again and beautiful.  Two years ago the house was raised and a basement was built underneath it.  As a child Peter's bedroom was the third floor of the windmill.

One of David's delicious stripers.  

I made fish stock from the four pound

head of this one.