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Your chance to be the first to use a brand new outhouse!

October 7, 2020 by petejudy 2 Comments

A message from Pete:

I was going to do a raffle at Heit’s Point this year for the EXCLUSIVE
right to be the very first one to use Dad’s (Mahlon’s) re-furbished
outhouse. As you can see from the pictures, this is no ORDINARY outhouse. It has a walnut seat and cedar lined backing from lumber that I cut myself and had milled.

Of all of our aunts and uncles and older cousins, I have NEVER heard
anyone say that he/she was the very first to use a new outhouse! NOW is
your opportunity.

Whoever individually, or whatever group of family comes up with
the $325 to put us to the $10,000 mark for Heit’s Point will win that exclusive right to be the first to use this outhouse.

That will be the good news. The bad news is that I am unable and MOSTLY
unwilling to bring the outhouse to you! Sorry.

2019 Reunion Planning Post

July 13, 2018 by Lloyd Jr. 1 Comment

Dates:

The 4th of July falls on a Thursday next year. The majority of people said that they wanted to come July 5 – July 7, Friday to Sunday (like “normal”). There were maybe 10 people who wanted to come on Thursday and make a longer weekend out of it. Since then, there is another group that wants to hold a family event at Heit’s Point on the 4th. Christina has asked Heit’s Point to hold a couple of rooms at the Spitz Center and the Lodge for our family to use on the 4th of July. If you would like someplace to stay on Thursday night, please let Christina know within the week.

Spitz Center vs. Pavilion:

We decided not to immediately make a choice on whether to use the Spitz Center or the Pavilion. We would like to just be in one place, and if it looks like the kitchen in the Pavilion will accommodate our needs, then we will plan on using the Pavilion. The Pavilion, providing the kitchen and restrooms are good enough, would be our first choice. If it does not look like the Pavilion will accommodate our needs, we will look at just using the Spitz Center.

Meals:

People generally agreed that having 2 meals worked out better than having 3 meals. I don’t think anyone went hungry. We decided that instead of Breakfast and Supper, we would do Lunch and Supper next year. That means an earlier Lunch and Supper at, more or less, the same time as this year. Breakfast, in as much as you want to eat breakfast will be on your own on Saturday. We have not made any definite plans about breakfast on Sunday at this point.

Other:

For at least the last 4 years (that’s how far back I checked) we have had church at 11:00. We will have church at 10:00 next year. Someone will have to wake Steveup. In the past, we’ve tried to have everything cleaned up before church. We will have to see how that works next year.

We decided that Peter was going to be in charge next year. Hold on to your hats everyone.

50th Wedding Anniversary (part 9)

April 17, 2015 by Lloyd Jr. 1 Comment

Photo Friday

January 18, 2013 by Lloyd Jr. 12 Comments

Someone asked where all this written stuff comes from, and you can thank Pete for a whole lot of it. Below is the letter that he sent out about 15 years ago asking people to write things down. Thanks Pete. I don’t actually have a copy of any of that stuff, but my sister had some of it. Mary Jane sends me stuff from Uncle Vernon every once in a while. Aunt Naomi and Aunt Lolly typed up lots of stuff and got copies to me (you’ll be seeing more of all that shortly).

I don’t really have anything from Aunt Margie, Aunt Bea, Aunt Cleo, Uncle Mahlon or Uncle Lloyd. This is surprising in the case of the latter two, because you can’t hardly get them to stop talking. Maybe someone could just record them… Seriously though, it would be good to record some of these guys memories. I say we put Tom in charge of it.