[Leica] Birthdays and friends.

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

to Ted and Irene....   best wishes to both of you, 
Happy Birthday....

Steve and Dominique

Ted Grant wrote:

> Of Birthdays and list friends who celebrate them. :-) :-) Add the sharing of
> many Leica moments not possible on screen. ;-)
> 
> One of many wonderful things on the LUG are the people you "screen meet and
> chat with like long lost brothers or sisters." And through that online
> friendship we eventually have face to face warm meet and greet's. Which
> surprise of surprises, evolves to  warm personal friendships.
> 
> Last evening we, my wife Irene and myself had an absolutely wonderful time
> celebrating our 75th birthday's, her's yesterday and mine to-morrow with
> folks, if not for Brian Reid and his LUG we'd have never met. And what a
> loss not to have met!
> 
> We began celebrating this wonderful age we've reached late afternoon with
> Tom & Tullikki Abrahamson, David & Rose Young, Dr.Joseph Yao from Hong Kong,
> Jim & Arlene Baker from Scottsdale.  Who arrived at our home for a Happy
> Birthday get to-gether, then we retired to a Japanese restaurant for a Happy
> Birthday dinner.
> 
> It was wild, Leica's of vintage to latest Digilux II's were clicking or
> silently snapping away in every direction, best Happy Birthday celebration I
> can recall! :-) And all Leica recorded! :-)
> 
> And it's Brian Reid's LUG, for all it's good, bad and ugly moments at times
> when the inmates run the place, this wonderful celebratory moment in time
> would not have happened. So Brian, although you didn't attend I want to
> thank you for making it possible for so many others to gain such wonderful
> friendships as these folks.
> 
> And so many others who've touched my life over the past 1/2 dozen years.
> 
> Heck reaching 75 is a wonderful time to realize, "Damn I made it this far
> with so many incredible moments and it's only 3/4's of a century! :-) Man
> the last 1/4 is going to be a mind blower if the first part is any
> indication! :-)
> 
> The goal now is to make it to the really, really "big 100!" That my friends
> isn't much time with so many things to do while still clicking away! Damn
> don't you just love it when a life has evolved so wonderfully you want more
> of the same? :-) Bring it on!
> 
> To make 100 is going to be monumental, but staying cool, keeping busy and
> doing many of the things I didn't have time for getting to this point! :-)
> Why it'll be a piece of cake :-)
> 
> So we're both looking forward to making it to the 100 percent century! :-)
> 
> Just thought you folks might like to know of a nice moment shared with
> friends in our Leica lives. :-)
> ted
> 
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