Book 5: 1980-81
September 1980 scenes; Kids pose with the wonderful Helen Miller who cares for them and helps run the house.
New camera is a great delight.
1980 scenes with their father, Jack Hoeschler.
Weaver Dunes, Sep 27 1980: we drive down the Mississippi past Kellogg for an etymology walk--covering little ground! (Jack is on the Nature Conservancy board which oversees this new property.)
LLH almost backs into a rattlesnake...but otherwise it's a really slow time!
Kristen's 12th birthday party with Yorkshire neighbors including Mesniks and Beckers.
Fritz plays "Happy Birthday" on his clarinet for Kristen.
More fall scenes of kids; Kristen and Fritz with their Nana Hoeschler; new bird feeder.
Lovely fall day in downtown St Paul and Landmark Center.
Love my new camera and using it on a lovely fall day.
Kristen Cornelius comes for a visit.
Maureen Hoeschler spends an early November weekend with us and we walk in Crosby Park along the Mississippi River.
More Fall shots...lovely Kristen.
LLH experiments with double exposure photography to get our Christmas card.
Final shot with "7" of us demonstrate the multiple instruments we 4 play (LLH only plays piano!).
A visit to Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Children's Theater--"Huckleberry Finn"; Halloween 1980: Jack is the Pope; Fritz a Mexican, and Kristen is Princess Anne.
Alternate costumes: we go trick or treating as the Royal Family of England (and "The Scream" on the reverse of the masks); LLH borrowed them from a local theater.
Photos at Como Park Conservatory.
A Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony concert; Al works in our yard.
Fritz is invited to meet Fritz Mondale when he flies into MSP the night of the national election (he was Jimmy Carter's VP); Thanksgiving 1980 in Worthington, MN with the Doyles.
Maureen and Jake visit. We celebrate Jack's 39th birthday.
Fritz invites a Hmong friend from Webster Magnet for an overnight, introducing him to sledding. Manny loves to cook.
School photos, flute practice; Fritz and Jack cuddle on the couch.
Kristen's dollhouse; a late winter trip @ March 1981 to visit Jim and Joni Bussen at their wonderful Lutsen, MN cabin.
Overlooking Lake Superior from the deck of Bussens' boathouse.
Spring bike ride; furniture moves inside the tree house (!); rhubarb and flowers burst forth.
Hydrangea, someone's pet rabbit, wanders into our yard and becomes our pet (until a racoon eats him); Scruffy, the most challenging cat ever, also "adopts" us until he finally moves on (probably understood my threats!); darling Mookie rests and Fritz plays a number of instruments.
Easter 1981 and other Spring shots.
![May 1981: Jack, Manny and Jack and I (LLH matches the magnificent rhododendron--a species [PJM] developed by the U of MN)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62e163b72ac2810ad9183578/1911820e-7cdb-44d0-bb69-8ed045d4b04a/Scan+28.jpeg)
May 1981: Jack, Manny and Jack and I (LLH matches the magnificent rhododendron--a species [PJM] developed by the U of MN)
Tulips in front courtyard
Begonia baskets LLH builds and hangs along the North (front door) engawa; Stephen Lovas visits; more spring flowers/bushes around house.
Azaleas...and a Oaxaca reunion party with Philip and Carolyn Brunelle.
Fritz turns 10, May 24 1971.
Fritz takes friends to amusement park to celebrate his birthday!
Fun at Valleyfair.
Scruffy and Mookie on the stairs; 2 Kristen's play checkers; beloved Manny Elson--love photo of Manny and the two kids sitting on impatiens box.
We all drive Fritz to Interlochen in Michigan where he will spend 8 weeks in Junior Camp studying music (we later learn it's not the best supervised unit, unfortunately).
More stops on the journey from Minnesota to Michigan.
A pretty drive...Jack bonds with Fritz.
We stop at Mackinac Island for a lovely overnight--no cars allowed so we take a delightful carriage ride.
Scenes around Interlochen including Mary Jane and Henry Charles Smith--he teaches conducting. Jake and Jack in La Crosse...
Ferry across Lake Michigan; I sit with Emilie Buchwald's mother at Amy Buchwald's wedding--which got hit by tornado...
Kristen has enjoyable week at horseback riding camp.
LLH visits Fritz at Interlochen Camp--a rather off-beat group of fellow campers (Jake Hoeschler also went to the camp and told us to "get the kid the hell out of that place" (one counselor appeared too friendly with the boys...sigh.
Fritz at his Interlochen cello lesson--good.
More photos of Fritz at Interlochen...then home to Kristen and the beloved birds!
LLH at work: Kristen and friend hold cats; Katie and Steve Doyle in Worthington, MN.
Jack and LLH spend a delightful weekend in Bemidji with Fulton and Nancy Gallagher, en route to pick up Kristen at Concordia Spanish Language Camp.
Jack and Fulton; LLH after a swim; Kristen and fellow-campers; Fritz dances with Tina Dahl at our 15th wedding anniversary party: a concert (our first commission of Steve Paulus) followed by a tea dance!
Kristen, Nana and Katie Hoeschler at our home; Labor Day weekend 1981, La Crosse, WI
Lovely weekend on the Mississippi River with the Hoeschlers.
On the boat and on the trampoline...
Picnic at Jay and Judy Hoeschler's farm; Kids and pets.
Photos around the house...and dollhouse.
Kristen turns 13, Jake and Maureen join us for the festivities.
Our family is invited to spend an informative and delightful October Saturday in St. Cloud with Arlene and Don Helgeson (Including their Gold'n Plump Chickens business)--seeing the chicks in a heated drawer distresses Kristen and Fritz. Pumpkin carving time again!
Kristen in play at Saint Paul Academy (7th grade--her first year there). Laura and John Doyle, Jr.