2023 Year in Review

 2023 Year in Review



Highlights: 
  • The Dunham street gang added the Marina Variety Store and Sunrise Bistro to its Thursday morning group breakfast spots. 
  • March 18 we celebrated our anniversary at Maison.
  • March 31 - April 9 Credit One Charlestonn Open volunteering as a Tournament Ambassador. Ons Jabeur defeated defending champion Belinda Bencic 7-6, 6-4. This photo and brief article appeared in the Daniel Island News during the tournament.  My picture and thias article were featured in our local Daniel Island News.

  • April 19-23 Went out to San Francisco to attend the Serra Hight School 50 Year Alumni Club reunion. We went together with Ken Colombo and his wife Quay. Having graduated in 1961 I missed my 50 year reunion in 2011.


  • We also got together at the Basque Center for dinner with classmates Stan Johnson and Joan Maher. On the weekend we visited my cousins the Ken, Bob and Jim Porter, Sue Meehan and Sissy Gillott. My former Peace Corps buddy Jack Colbourn and his wife Kathy met us for dinner at the West Coast Cafe, Italian restaurant in San Bruno late Sunday before we caught our late flight.

  • May 13 we attended the Charleston Jazz Summer Samba featuring Brazilian music by artists Duda Lucena, Heather Rice and Alva Anderson.

  • June 6-9 Jeffrey and Sharon visited us from Atlanta. Instead of accepting an offer to stay with us they stayed in a hotel "The Dewberry". Expensive hotel near Marion Square. I guess they wanted to be independent and not impose on us. In retrospect I think we should have paid for the hotel. We did have them over and went out to dinner at the Isle of Palms but they pretty much did sightseeing on their own.  
  • In June,  Residential Elevator completed installation of our elevator.  When we had the house built we had a shaft installed so it was quite easy to install the elevator after waiting14 years.  
  • Well I came home from my TDY in Equitorial Guinea in late September just in time to help Doris recover from her replacement knee surgery which she had on October 7. She had quite a difficult time getting over the surgery as she was basically confined to downstairs and walk with either crutches or a walker for about eight weeks. She has a nurse visit three days a week to assist with exercises and start walking.
  • Doris started Physical Therapy (PT) with Imagine PT in December but had an issue with being able to bend her knee to 120 degrees as recommended after three months. Consequently she had to go back to Dr. McCrosson and get a "Manipulation" to allow her to bend her knee to the recommend level. Continued PT with Imagine helped her to gradually walk on her own and eventually was able do stairs even though the elevator was a God send.
  • I did resume my volunteer duties at the Yorktown on Tuesday morning and was happy that I was able to take three months off and get back with my colleagues on the 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. shift at the information desk.

Tuesday Morning Crew Wil Doak (Navy), Dick Prevette
 (Air Force) and Tom Simons (Navy)  

Jayden won a Weight Lifting 
Competition Pressing 375 lbs

  • David came for his annual visit over Thanksgiving with the family for traditional Turkey dinner. 
  • Doris was making good progress through the end of the year continuing with Imagine Physical Therapy.
  • David came for Christmas and had a wonderful dinner at Grill 225 to celebrate his birthday on Christmas Eve.

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