Storm Damage

This past weekend's storms left the boys without a swing set for a few days. 

The swing set was positioned by the sand box in the background.

Luckily a 4x4 is all that was needed to repair the set.

The Bradford Pear tree in our front lawn has seen better days.

 Here are a few pictures of graduation yesterday at OSU. 

This was the 400th graduating class from Ohio State 
and the largest ever in the history of OSU.  

My Godchild Elizabeth Coons with her diploma. 

Elizabeth graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Agricultural Communications.

This is the beginning of 10,600 students entering the shoe. 

It took 35 minutes just to seat the graduates.

Believe it or not handing out the diplomas went pretty fast.

As you can see they had about 12 lines handing out the diplomas.

Dad with Buckeyman at the agricultural brunch before graduation.

Gotta love these answers.

Kim has never even watched Star Wars.

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Ed & Merilyn with Grandchildren

Ed & Merilyn Borchers with their Grandchildren.

Ed & Merilyn will be celebrating 50 years of marriage next month !

Picture of Hayden's pre-school class below. 

These children will be a part of the Marion Local Class of 2025

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Below are 2 pictures taken of the same house almost 100 years apart.

This house originally owned by Peter Paulus is located on Redmund Road near St. Rt. 48 where my Grandma Helen (Paulus) DeMange grew up. 

The second picture was taken this past Sunday showing 8 of the 14 children of Paul and Helen DeMange. They got a chance to go back and visit the house that they have not seen since they were children.

Bernice Paulus (my great-aunt) who just passed away a few weeks ago lived there with her late husband Adrian(Grandma's brother). Bernice was the last of the Peter Paulus family.

Here is a picture of Adrian and Bernice 

Cory Luebke gets it honest !

Here is a picture of the old Norb's Place baseball team from Osgood.

This picture is from the late 40's and shows Bob Luebke in the middle 

back who is Cory Luebke's Grandfather. 

Bob and Cory's father Jeff (Monster) were quite the ball players years ago.

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