Finished projects

The vaunted Degroot bench

Shown completed just before delivery, Dec. 23rd 2009

and before, in its original factory finish, when our decoratory began working on it. The Degroots had furnished an arm cover for color guidance but otherwise left the project in the Waukesha Sewer Raccoon's intuitive hands.

The colors we chose, as you can see, came from this arm cover.

Here, Mother Denise opens another finished project,

her "2nd Favorite Shirt', so to become after many washings, fading and ensuing raggedy-ness. As a presently new garment it is a matter of faith that it will become Dee's second favorite eventually. http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-favorite-shirt.html

(Son Lee is captured at the left, studying another present. He did not expect to be included in the snapshot, but upon imminent graduation ( one semester to go) from UW Madison he takes up his post as an elementary teacher for the Teach for America Corps in Houston.)

In the Christmas mail from the Pleasant Valley family came some pictures of those in attendance at John and Jean Means sr's 60th wedding anniversary, an event which became a finished product in October. This picture of daughter Erin and friend Patrick Davis struck us as a good likeness. They are striving finishing products in their own right as graduates of Lawrence University in Appleton WI and post-graduate degree seekers. Patrick flew to Maryland with Erin to meet the larger family and study how to manage the consumption of hard-shell crabs. He learned quickly, and 'finished' many.

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Yet another finished product: A late but not forgotten Christmas poem - the annual - DID arrive with today's post. Atty. John Grau and his penwoman wife Mary never let us down with these truly great yuletide (+ or -) missives. The SRN is graced by this work, and reprints it without permission. Hey, you sent it in.

Some years ago we sold John and Mary a house ( was it their first?), a dwelling that had been built on B.A. Frame's former tennis court between our house at 119 Windsor Drive and Ard's. A really long time ago.....

More recently, John provided legal assistance with our church's Burmese refugee resettlement project, which also became a project finished.

To all, a happy unfinished, not even started, new year!