.My First Home Page.
(Nothing much, just beginning, and deciding what I want to do!)
My name is Dennis, and I'm from the Quad-Cities area of Illinois on the
Mighty Mississippi!
I'm over 50 years old! My favorite sport is
fishing, and I get precious little time to do any!
One of my hobbies is amateur radio. I have an Advanced Class
Amateur Radio License, WB9TCJ, but am not very active on the air; not
since getting a computer (another hobby) which takes so much of my
time. (You may know that amateur radio operators are often called
Hams, and I like being a ham like in other ways as I enjoy silly jokes
and puns.) Perhaps when I retire I will have enough time to try
some of the new digital communication modes, like PSK31, that use the
computer with the radio transmitter/receiver. As a Ham, I am a member of
the Christian Amateur Radio Fellowship (CARF#220). You can visit
their site at
http://www.qsl.net/carf/.
A little about myself...
I've been very happily married since 1971. My wife and I
(both pharmacists) have a son and three daughters. Our son is a
mechanical engineer in Canton, OH, where he lives with his wife who is
an ornamental horticulturist (she does lawnscape design for occassional
customers), and our grandson born in October 2001. Our oldest
daughter has a degree in Music Ministries (a keyboardist; piano, etc.),
and is married to a minister at a Christian Church in the Quad City
area. Our next daughter will be married in June 2002 after
graduating from IL State U. with a degree in Elementary Ed., and from
Lincoln Christian College with a degree in Bible. And the youngest
will start attending Lincoln Christian College in the fall of 2002, then
IL State U., to get a degree in music education. She also is a
keyboardist, and a percussionist. I really enjoy hearing to her play the
marimba or the vibraphone, as well as the piano.
We are members of the Milan Christian Church, where I also lead the
Sunday morning adult bible study during our Sunday School hour. My
wife teaches a Sunday School class of grade school aged children.
Our youngest daughter often plays piano for worship services when the
other pianist is unable to be there. (Someone else will have to do that
when she is off to college.)
We like to garden and care for our lawn and fruit trees in Summer,
while Winter sees us just trying to survive getting to work, to school
and church functions, and back home safely. Oh yes, my wife loves
sewing, especially new things, and especially for little girls.
She doesn't get thrilled about mending and alterations, though she does
a great job of it, and has made some quilts for our kids, and Raggedy
Ann & Andy dolls for new nieces and nephews. She also made our first
daughter's wedding dress, and is make one for the second daughter's
wedding plus all four bride's maid dresses!
Speaking of being happily married, some years ago while
my wife and I were attending graduate school at the University of
Michigan, we were members of a church in Ypsilanti, MI, and sang in
their choir. One day at choir practice we learned that it was the
wedding anniversary of the minister and his wife, who both also sang in
the choir. Someone asked him how many years they had been
married. Joke loving guy that he was, he answered, "I want you to
know that I've been happily married for 5 years ... , and 5 out of 7
ain't bad!" It was their 7th anniversary.
That's enough for now. Maybe when I get ambitious (not likely
anytime soon), I'll add some of that neat graphics and background stuff
to this page like others have on their pages.
Just for fun, I'll try a link, here, to our church's site at ForMinistry:
Milan Christian Church
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