Happy Birthday
Today is Linda's birthday: born July 10, 1936 to UJW Peters and Lucile Mustin Peters, at St Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama in the day when the hospital was peopled with nuns in their peculiar habits.
Linda's father was a Birmingham native, and that's where they lived; her mother, an artist, was born and grew up in Tuscaloosa, and I think they met as students at the University of Alabama. They moved from Birmingham to Mobile right after WW2, and from Mobile to Panama City when Linda was in seventh grade at Cove School. Linda remembers that she came over from Mobile in her father's boat, with a hired pilot, along the Inland Waterway, shining a flashlight beam on innumerable sets of red eyes along the banks that night, sleeping in the cabin below as the boat motored slowly east.
To me, she was the new girl at StAndrews Episcopal Church in the late 1940s, and then The Girl as from her junior, my senior, year at Bay High. Married June 1957 at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church, PC, we have children, grandchildren, one ggdaughter. Two decades in the Navy took us many places to live. As clergy family we've served five churches where, Linda having an artist's bent, a main enthusiasm has been doing magnificent flower arrangments for the altars in parishes we've served. As for aging, than me, the years have been kinder to her. We are both retired but doing things to keep life fun and good.
This birthday we are still hurricane refugees, living in Breakfast Point, PCB with Malinda, Ray, Britany and Lilly, and frequently Kristen, in their new house.
Joe is here, almost always comes down for this week of his mom's birthday. Our celebration is to be foodly, first breakfast out, later grilling steaks outside, lemon icebox pie topped with globs of real whipped cream. TJCC are coming for Saturday, and that'll be a second birthday.
Praise and thanksgiving for the Time of life.
T
Linda's father was a Birmingham native, and that's where they lived; her mother, an artist, was born and grew up in Tuscaloosa, and I think they met as students at the University of Alabama. They moved from Birmingham to Mobile right after WW2, and from Mobile to Panama City when Linda was in seventh grade at Cove School. Linda remembers that she came over from Mobile in her father's boat, with a hired pilot, along the Inland Waterway, shining a flashlight beam on innumerable sets of red eyes along the banks that night, sleeping in the cabin below as the boat motored slowly east.
To me, she was the new girl at StAndrews Episcopal Church in the late 1940s, and then The Girl as from her junior, my senior, year at Bay High. Married June 1957 at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church, PC, we have children, grandchildren, one ggdaughter. Two decades in the Navy took us many places to live. As clergy family we've served five churches where, Linda having an artist's bent, a main enthusiasm has been doing magnificent flower arrangments for the altars in parishes we've served. As for aging, than me, the years have been kinder to her. We are both retired but doing things to keep life fun and good.
This birthday we are still hurricane refugees, living in Breakfast Point, PCB with Malinda, Ray, Britany and Lilly, and frequently Kristen, in their new house.
Joe is here, almost always comes down for this week of his mom's birthday. Our celebration is to be foodly, first breakfast out, later grilling steaks outside, lemon icebox pie topped with globs of real whipped cream. TJCC are coming for Saturday, and that'll be a second birthday.
Praise and thanksgiving for the Time of life.
T