I found a couple more pictures......

This photo was taken when Lynn and Lisa lived on Eighth Street. Lisa is perched on the wooden spoil and is posing with my niece, Tina, whom I also babysat at times. Tina is the daughter of Marian, my former spouse's sister. Both of these little girls are now mamas themselves. Lisa has two sons, Gabe and Manny, while Tina has two daughters, Maya and Rayna. Tina just celebrated her 40th birthday but Justin and I were in WI and had to miss her surprise party. I have her present in my freezer however; a couple dozen poppyseed-filled doughnuts, something from Manitowoc for which she longs! Perhaps next Saturday I will run down to Palm Coast to deliver them and take Maya a birthday present, too, as she turned 3 in August.

On Lisa's birthday I wrote about her sitting at the old clunky type writer in our office, honing her clerical skills for what was to become her future employment in an accounting firm. The desk next to her was our first piece of furniture purchased from my bro-in-law's sister, Nancy, in Milwaukee, when she decided to sell everything she owned and buy gold! This was in 1974 and does that not sound familiar? The cycle is repeating. But anyway, we paid $5.00 for this desk and it served us well for at least 20 years or more. Even used to hold Mom's sewing machine when she came to winter with us. I am not sure what became of it though. Hmmm.....The typewriter may have come from her, too, now that I think of it because I doubt we would have gone in search of a relic, after having been trained on IBM Selectrics in high school. Anyway, this was fun to find the picture of Lisa using the typewriter all those many years ago!