Book 27: 2005-06
January 2, 2005: Sleet ruins our skating, but allows for kick sledding on Gem Lake! Jack & Larry Siegel (he's staying at cabin). Fritz's Eagle Scout bridge crossing one of the Gem Lake marshes comes in handy. Line, Lotte, Trine & Anker Johnsen from Oslo, Thelma Hunter's cousins.
At the cabin: Jack, Janice and Paul Beskobic (a teen-years boyfriend of Janice from Winona). Jan 29: Baby shower for Kristen at the Ranheims'. KBH and Judy Ranheim; Mary Ann Feldman; Thelma Hunter and Laura Doyle; Carol Heen and Karen Lundholm.
Jan 29: LLH dressed for the St. Paul Assembly Ball. Marv Dunnette and Leaetta Hough. Valentine's Day with Mother, Hildur Lovas.
Naples, Florida, 2/18 - 3/11/05. Hella and Bill Hueg ; JGH and LLH--taken on Huegs' balcony overlooking Naples Bay (pre-Royal Poinciana dinner). Feb 20: Post concert dinner at Bert and Toby Phillips'. Cellist Bert Phillips and spouse, pianist Toby Saks (bottom row), founded a delightful chamber music series in Naples with other retired professional players; Bert was originally from LaX and worked in the Hoeschler drugstore. Janet Hoeschler became a big supporter of their Naples series and summer camp at Lake Lucerne.
Feb 26: A visit to Christopher Kendall's in Takoma Park, MD. Spouse/mother Susan Schilperoot. JGH and LLH with Sophie & Annika. (Jack is a big hit when he walks young kids on the ceiling!) Christopher, Susan and the girls with Grandfather John Kendall who brought Suzuki to the US after WWII. We tour Trinity College, DC, LLH's first college and where she met Jack at her Freshman tea dance at the Willard Hotel in September 1962.
Ranheims come visit us in Naples, FL. Judy has a 2 week old replacement knee but doing well--what a trooper! Mid row: Laura Doyle visits son Steve & grandson Aidan in Atlanta. Terry at Jen & Siobhan's shower. 3/25/05: John Ignatius O'Brien is born in St Joe's Hospital in St Paul--our first grandchild!
3/26: JGH with his namesake. Great Aunt Laura Doyle with Kristen and the babe. Jennifer O'Brien Bastyr. Terry and Jack.
Easter, Mar 27:: baby Jack; Janice ready for church; Jack O'B with his mother and great grandmother. Mar 28: Home! 1874 Beechwood Ave, St Paul.
Tues 3/29: Mother and babe adjust. 4/7: Parents go out on a date. 4/9: The two grandfathers, Terry O'Brien and Jack Hoeschler with 2-week-old Jack O'B.
Minnesota Commissioning Club meets with Håkan Hagegård & Libby Larsen. Apr 3: Hella Hueg's 75th birthday gathering. Jack and Judy Ranheim. Apr 14: Patty Enstad performs myofascial release to help Jack's colic and digestion.
Apr 17: Buddha Jack on the shores of Lake Pepin where his parents have "docked" during a car ride. Apr 25: Jack is one month old. Apr 28: Nonna walks Jack home after her pedicure. Kristen, Jack with godfather, Peter Butler.
Late April and early May photos.
Mother's Day seems especially tender and meaningful this year!
Laura Doyle; Papa collapses; Hildur and JO'B; Hildur, LLH, KBH and Jack. Crapapple carpet at Edgcumbe.
May 20-23: DC area weekend. LLH gives commencement talk to U of MD Music. Top left: Christopher Kendall; son Oliver plays violin. Arlington: we meet with the Earl Flanagans (she's a distant Wederquist cousin).
After Arlington and Mt Vernon, we attend a delightful wine party on the banks of the Potomac. Jack is baptized at St Peter Claver church by Fr. Kevin McDonough on Sunday, May 29.
Godparents are Peter Butler and Mary Roetzel.
After church we gather at Edgcumbe. Appetizers on the deck, dinner inside. Joan O'Brien holds her grandson. Terry, Peter Butler, Mary Roetzel and Kristen.
On June 1 JGH and LLH fly to Sweden (picking up a new Volvo, doing some genealogy sleuthing in Sweden, then meeting MCC members in Potsdam for a Libby Larsen premiere of "Slow Structures" for the Meininger Trio.). On June 3 JGH's DVT lets loose, causing a double pulmonary embolism and stroke. We hit a concrete pillar at 60MPH and spend the next 3 weeks in the hospital for multiple surgeries, then another few weeks at Hagegården in rest and rehab. While we were gone... our baby, the very reason we wanted to live, kept growing.
July 12, 2 days after we return from Sweden, JO'B visits LLH in my recuperative bed. July 19, LLH 61st birthday party at Kristen's. August with my baby. (For 6 months LLH had to wear a body brace whenever not in bed in order to help her body heal. She suffered an exploded vertebra, another one cut to the spine, and a fractured sternum; when she began to lose feeling in her feet, she underwent surgery for 10 inches of titanium rods inserted and screwed in alongside the middle of her spine.)
JO'B with his handsome father; gently sunning himself; with Brandie Snidarich in his new jump up. Labor Day: Jack with great uncle Steve Lovas.
September, with Lo Ann Snidarich. October, Jack stops in for dinner. Hallowe'en, our best cow! Cow with his quarter moon (as in to jump over).
Papa with his cow. Thanksgiving brunch at Ranheims (Fritz and Juli are in town for a visit.) Winged euonymus are especially colorful this year!
Oct 17: quick trip to LaX. Thanksgiving weekend: Our gang's all here! Christmas card photos kindly taken by Bob Muschewske.
Dec 4: Norskedalen with Ranheims (after fabulous Luther College Christmas Concert). Kendall family Christmas card photo. Hmongs stop over to visit.
Grab-bag of late fall photos, 2005.
London with Ranheims: Jan 28 - Feb 5, 2006. David insists we get our daily bananas!
Juli graduates in December. JGH and LLH visit Pensacola, Jan 20-22, 2005. Naples, FL: Feb. 18-Mar 13.
Ranheims visit us in Naples, Feb. 23-27. Judy and LLH are off to MN Orch party in our new duds. Feb 27: we meet Sewell's at Edison House in Ft. Myers.
March 3-13, Jack O'Brien & his folks visit us in Naples. Delightful!
O'B's stay with Barbara Winthrop at Pelican Bay Jack and his Aunt Julia Hoodless Hoeschler at Naples' Campiello's. La, La, La - Barbara teaches Jack to verbalize. Dinner March 8 with Carleen Rhodes who heads the St. Paul Foundation.
Easy days in Naples.
Juli & Fritz join us in Naples, March 6-10. LLH and JGH return to St Paul, then travel to Big Sky, Montana, March 17-21. We are guests of Jim & Laura Johnson in their new, gorgeous home.
Preparing for Yates Latta's 2nd birthday party (Johnsons' grandson via daughter Maclaren). Mar 25: Jack O'Brien is one!! We celebrate at his home on Beechwood Avenue. Great aunt Laura Doyle with JO'B. Kristen & Jack. Great grandmother Hildur Lovas & Brandie Snidarich.
Cake for Jack and company. With a photo of his handsome father. Apr 4: Jack makes silly faces.
Mid-April 2006: bike ride; Easter Sunday brunch at Minneapolis Club; then dinner at Doyles'. Hildur Lovas holds her beloved great-grandson.
Springtime with Jack-aka Gus (per Papa).
May 13: Minnesota Commissioning Club meets with composer Sven-David Sandström and conductor Philip Brunelle at Sewell home in Minneapolis. LLH and Jack.
Abby Hoeschler graduates from St. Paul's in NH, Jun 2-4, 2006. Since JGH pushed Jay and Judy to let Abby go to boarding school (her request) we are invited for the delightful weekend festivities. Jun 16: Håkan Hagegård at Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Leaetta Hough hosts a lovely dinner party at her beautiful Summit Avenue home for Håkan Hagegård. Her brother, Merv Hough, is the outstanding paella chef.
Great music and camaraderie abound!
Composer Sven-David Sandstrom, Consul from Swedish Embassy in DC, and LLH offer toasts and tributes to Håkan. Meanwhile, Jack sails Corsica, Jun 15-25 with our Tarrytown NY/ NE Harbor ME friends (resting up here).
Some Corsica sailing scenes of JGH with Fritz, Cecily and Alan Morse. Ostia Antica sightseeing outside Rome before departure: Fritz for FL; JGH to Sweden.
Jul 19: LLH is 62! We resume the tradition of the Hunter - Hueg - Hoeschler birthday party, this time at Edgcumbe, not Gem Lake.
Sep 27: Susan Hill Chaffee at Edgcumbe. Jack O'Brien in the Fall of 2006.
Mid-Oct Jack spends the night at Edgcumbe Hallowe'en 2006 Jack is a chicken!
Odds and ends (as in why don't folks send us their photos in a timely manner!) Jun 2006: Hella Mears & JGH at new Guthrie (both are board members). Sep 30: Parki Hoeschler's joyful 60th party. 10/28: Porters' in Cambridge, MA. October visit to LaX and the Shrine. June: 40th Barnard reunion in NYC.
Members of Jack's old law firm, Doherty, Rumble and Butler reunite. Abbot John, Sister Wendy, and Dietrich Reinhart at V and A for St. John's exhibit of its Bible. Guthrie Gatsby opening, July 7. Marrakech friends we met in 2004--our guide and his two children whose private schooling we help fund.
Nov 12: In DC and at Cosmos Club with composer Stephen Paulus and singer Andrew Garland.