Thursday, March 14, 2013

Adding a picture ...

In 1948 our family had a reunion and Uncle Fred, Bob's father ... see the previous blog ... was a photographer and took this timed photo. I found this picture about 10 years ago when I was sorting through ALL the pictures I'd inherited from both sides of our family ... Weinberg and Welch ... a task that lasted a few of years. I made a heritage album for us and each of my children.

Then I showed the album to Pat and Bernd. At that time I mentioned that it was too bad that the sun streak was there. Pat was an expert at fixing photos and said she'd love to try to fix it so we scanned the photo.



... and then she worked for hours with these results:



Looks a lot better. Pat couldn't "fix" Uncle Fred so she cropped his face from another picture and pasted it in this picture.

So, who are these people? Top row is Tom Staple (my cousin), John Weinberg (Dad), Fred Myer, Max Weinberg, Hans Staple, BOB MYER.
Middle row is: Claire Weinberg (me), Rena Staple (Tom's twin), Frieda Weinberg (Mom), Gretel Staple, Edith Myer, Margot Myer.
Seated on the ground is: Bertha Meyer and Bernd Weinberg (my brother).

Hans Staple is my Dad's half brother. Fred Myer (changed the spelling of his last name by dropping the first "e") and Bertha Meyer are first cousins of Dad and Uncle Hans. Max Weinberg is the father of both John and Hans and my grandfather who lived with us when we came to the USA.

The Weinberg's moved from Chicago in 1950 and that was the last time I saw Bob ... until yesterday. So what did I do today? Hunted for Pat's pictures and worked to get the pictures on my laptop. I have them on my computer at home.

And we went to 2 quilt shops today, so it's been a wonderful day. The boys are watching AZ in the beginning of March madness. Now I'm going to see how warm the pool is as the temperature will be in the 90's for a couple of days. If it's 90's in March, what will the summer bring? Whew!!

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

63 Years Later ...

In 1950 our family moved from Chicago, IL to Walton, NY. That was the last time I saw my second cousin, Hans Myer. This past summer Hans, now Bob, called me and could have knocked me over with a feather, if I wasn't already down weeding the garden. It was 63 years since I last saw Bob! I remembered Bob as being tall, dark and handsome when I first met him and his sister, Margot, in 1947. That was the year his family reunited with their father after WW11.

Bob called because he was doing some research of his family and wondered if I might have some answers. I didn't, but we did tell a few stories and have kept in touch. He told me he lived in Tucson, where my brother lives, which he didn't know. When I asked where specifically in Tucson he then told me Green Vally, which is about 45 minutes south of Bernd's.

Finally, today, we met. And we are getting together again on Saturday at the quilt show +! It was wonderful catching up on some of our past lives. I'm still processing all we chatted about.



That's Bob, me and Bernd. We look good, don't we?

Friday, March 1, 2013

February Ends


I made the mistake of taking this photo. Bernd woke up just before I snapped it.

So Chuck got these. As you can see Bernd is watching basketball and I am reading an exciting book.

Our week was spent walking sometimes outside and on cooler days in a mall. Chuck's exciting time at the grocery store happened as we were checking out and the woman in the next checkout picked up her bag with spaghetti sauce in it as the bag broke and splattered all over the back of his pants. Had to wipe him down before he sat in the SSR. Took me 3 washes and lots of Shout stain remover before I could dry them.

On Sun. we went to the Indian Art Fair where there were absolutely lovely art pieces of all kinds.
Dancing ...
rugs ...
Loved the hatband!
and the best art were Bernd's art shoes! After walking at the fair in the cold and wind (my feet actually got cold) we ate at: and enjoyed a delicious meal. That's when we went home and watched basketball and read.