Spry and Sprightly

The handsome gentleman pictured above is my dad, Ernst Longenecker.  The portrait was taken in the 1940s.  I think most everyone who knew him smiles over memories of this man.  He was an individual!  He was a mechanical engineer by degree, an industrial designer and manager, an inventor, a wonderful father, and a mellow story-teller.  Dad [...]

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The comfort of yarn and needles . . .

Tomorrow we make the 45 minute trip to St. Luke’s where we will spend a couple of days.  Joe is scheduled for a heart cath—and then whatever else needs doing:  perhaps more stents, or a scheduling of by-pass surgery. St. Luke’s is a good place to be in these circumstances, as that hospital pioneered heart [...]

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