More news from Longmont

Hi blog readers.  This will probably be my last entry before returning to Honduras, as the library will be closed for the Labor Day weekend. 
This past week I attended another rehearsal of the Ft. Collins Pipe Band and they sent me a photo which I will attempt to pass on to you.  See below.
On Monday, I visited the 100 year old mother of my high school friend Linda, who is in a senior retirement center very close to our house.   I will see Linda and many other friends at our reunion which begins today.   Then I hopped on a bus and went to Boulder where I had another nice visit with Wally and Mary (overnight).   Tuesday evening, before returning to Longmont, they took me to one of the many cultural opporunities that Boulder residents enjoy, a free concert by faculty members of the UC Music Department.  The concert featured a flute professor, in collaboration with a piano professor and later with a small ensemble of French horns, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons.   The music was marvelous.

On Wednesday, my classmate Ron Grooters picked me up and we drove to Estes Park where we had lunch with his brother Jay.  We went to the local Catholic church to view the stained glass windows that Jay made and installed in the church--three large ones and about 20 smaller ones.   Quite beautiful and the result of many months of labor on Jay's part.   I have some photos, but none digital.  Maybe Jay can send me one.   I'll ask. 

Ron drove me up over Trail Ridge Road for a real treat--how incredibly beautiful that area is!   Then back to FortCollins where we had dinner with my brother Alan and sister-in-law Mary, aamidst lots of laughter about various memories Ron had to share with us --various pranks he remembered from Boy Scouts, life growing up  in the parsonage, etc.   The previous pastor's son at that Methodist Church of our childhood had been a good friend of Alan's, and Ron and Alan had a lot of other connections despite a few years difference in age.
I spent the night with Al and Mary, then hopped another bus to complete  that travel back to Longmont.  I managed to introduce Al and Mary to the public transportation opportunities they had not known about.

My time here is about up, so, besides visiting with these classmates from 50 years ago, I will be primarily trying to fit all the gleaned gems into a couple of suitcases, weigh it all and get it ready for the trip to Honduras on Monday-Tuesday.  It has been a rich time, full of memories.  All from Longmont, Nancy