Life With Boys

Recovered family-photo lead from September 30, 2018. Danielle emailed Mike Oser a photograph with the simple note: “Hello – Here is the photo – it is attached as well.” The surviving Gmail attachment is named CCI_000877.jpg. Gmail reports it as an image/jpeg attachment of 3,658,765 bytes on message 1662c2d296e89fa6. October 1, 2026 recovery breakthrough The… Continue reading

Hello – Happy dance for the art show! I am in class MW from 8-9:15 and Tuesday from 1:20-4:30. I am also teaching online – should be interesting. D- Continue reading

Overheard tonight – “Well, Morgan leaves in the morning, so I want to get my playing in now” And ten minutes later they were fighting again Continue reading

Recovered Beck-family correspondence and photographs from July 24, 2018. Barbara sent two photographs after Danielle asked on Facebook for “real pics” from Dave’s visit. Barbara described one as the two of them out in the boat — “a bit low in the water with two people” — and the second as the two of them… Continue reading

No duck boats for us … Morgan gets home from band camp tomorrow – Tyler is off to Boy Scout camp Sunday – someone needs to be somewhere, with bug wipes somewhere, all summer. D- Continue reading

Tyler just learned the smell in his room is related to the OJ still in his backpack from Hawaii Continue reading

Some families inherit jewelry. Apparently we inherit classic cars. Where the Packard story started: In February, Jo described Pete’s cars while trying to figure out how to sell them fairly. At that point she identified the restored car as a 1953 Packard Clipper and the project car as a 1955 Packard Patrician. The plan was… Continue reading

Sorry, I have not made a ton of progress today – found out one of my Maryville students died of an accidental overdose last week. We had been working to find him an internship. It’s weird. D- The next morning, after Kimber said how horrible it was, I wrote: “Thanks. It’s the second Maryville student… Continue reading

Recovered Peter Zeimet estate correspondence — February 2018 through January 2019. This draft consolidates the house and household-auction side of the estate; the Packards and Fuller-family coins are preserved separately. February 2018 — the giant do-list Before the house could be sold, Jo laid out the full estate triage: repair and repaint the house, replace… Continue reading