Project Day 61 - Exile Day 11 - Today is Sunday, so there is no construction going on at the house. We went to mass and enjoyed the usual coffee and donuts with our friends in the parish hall afterwards. Father Bob set a new record for shortness of the homily. It was four minutes and fifty seconds (but who is counting). Sermons can easily stretch out to twenty minutes which is painful for me because it takes less than five minutes to read the bulletin.

My family scanning project is proceeding quite well. I am into a box of hundreds of prints. As I have remarked before, assigning dates is a challenge. Today's photo is one that really caught my eye. It wasn't until I blew it up on the screen that I realized what I had. It was taken in May of 1944 at the Lawsonia Country Club in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Mom had written that on the back. When I looked at it closely, I realized that mom was wearing my dad's pilot's wings. My suspicion is that dad was on leave just before deploying overseas to Italy. They were eventually married in 1946. How cool is that?