Kevin's Band - Mumbai Taxi

Kevin' latest musical undertaking..... a Latin Band.......Mumbai Taxi. From left - Larry - keyboards.....used to play with The Temptations in the 1970s; Kevin , drummer and percussion; Phil - Lead singer and guitar - school teacher(Spanish) and karate instructor;Tony, bongos; Bill, Bass guitar. Bill and Kevin play in the Country Band Stockwell Road and the Blues band Partyline together and Bill is a 6th and 7th grade orchestra teacher and baseball coach. Lots of talent amongst all these people.

This photo was in the Indy Star today with a brief write-up. The band is playing at the Midsummer Music Festival next weekend.

Visiting Our Heritage - Winter Family 1907

I was delighted recently to read an email Mum passed on from Eean with some further clarification regarding the Winter family details. I hope Valda, Lesle, Eean, Bev and Fay will contribute further with any informaiton they know of.

You guys are the last of the informaiton sources related to this generation!

I believe this portrait was around 1907 - judging by Dorothy's age. The four children - Norman, Dorothy, Ivy and Fred. Fred was born in 1906 and Stan was born in 1908 - so Spohie may have been expecting Stan in this portrait.

Hail Storms in Indiana

We have had a couple of doozy hail storms in the last 2 weeks. This one shredded a lot of my garden. Another one put dints in Joel's car and Todd's brand new car. Insurance will repair. Maureen had a guy come and check the roof to be sure we didn't have roof damage - but she did not, so I assume I am good too. It was much worse north of here.

Generally a mild late spring temperature-wise and we have had a lot of nice rain. I have only needed to water my potted plants so far. No tornado activity around central Indiana.




Hail dmage to my Lamb't Ear and Hosta's. The hydranga was destroyed - only very early tender blooms. More are already popping up. I have not been able to get my hydrangea to bloom for years - and this year I was putting it on a special diet and giving it TLC to get a bloom....but I fear it was scared bloom-less!