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July travels

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:49:56 -0400

July found us traveling down to Kathy's parents' place in Virginia to celebrate Karen's and Kevan's 50th birthdays. Al & Carole had put together a big party, and Kathy had put together the playlists for music, and everyone had a fine time!

From…

June 2011 Update

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:15:03 -0400

Life continues to treat us relatively well here. We're very happy in our still-new-to-us house in Bedford. Kathy continues to work hard at Fortress Technologies, but she and her team shipped the version that they had been working on for quite some…

New Year, 2011

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:35:13 -0500

A long time since the last update. We've been keeping busy, as usual, with a wide assortment of stuff going on.

Over the summer we did a good deal of biking, including several longer treks here and there. One very nice one was visiting some of…

Summer Update

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:02:42 -0400

Well, it's been a while since I updated the news, so here we go.

We're now well installed at 37 Fletcher. Still a few things in boxes, some minor jobs around the house left to be completed, but completely livable. We did a bunch of landscaping to…

Moved in to 37 Fletcher!

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:12:58 -0400

It was pretty complicated, but we managed to bring all the components of our move together like clockwork:

The renovations were completed more or less on schedule, but about a week before we needed to bring in the first load of furniture from…

Almost ready to move!

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:27:46 -0400

We're getting very close to moving to our new place over at 37 Fletcher Road. We made a bunch of modifications including opening up the wall between the living room and study, so there's now an open-plan room, and we added a large bay window…

Jan 15 Update

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:01:03 -0500

Closed on the house this morning, no hitches! We now are the proud owners of 37 Fletcher Road in Bedford.

Last night Ben's hockey team won the championship game for the fall season, an exciting game - we were missing our goalie for the first period!…

Happy New Year, 2010!

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:11:19 -0500

We just got back from a lovely trip to Costa Rica. It was the four of us, plus our nephew, David. We left on Boxing Day after having celebrated the holidays with Kathy's parents and family at their place on the Chickahominy river in Virginia. The…

RIP Raphael Littauer, 10/19/2009

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:45:10 -0400

Ben and Celia's father, Raphael Littauer died on 10/19/2009. His obituary can be found at the Ithaca Journal. There is a guest book there as well, and we fervently request that visitors contribute any stories about our "Papa" that they might have.

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House? - House!

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:36:00 -0400

Summer Update

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:31:03 -0400

We've had a fun and busy summer, so far. We're both trying to keep active, as well as trying - with good success! - to lose weight. We've done a lot of bicycling: Kathy rides the 11 miles to and from work three or four days a week, and Ben sometime…

Renting the Ithaca House!

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:06:29 -0400

We've decided to start renting the Ithaca house. If folks are interested, please get in touch. See more about Cliff House here.

Italy Trip

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:04:42 -0400

Kathy and Ben just returned from a fabulous two and a half week trip to Italy. We spent the first week in Venice with our daughter, Ariana, and niece, Jessica. Then we met up with Toronto friends Tom and Michelle for a bike tour from Venice to…

First Ride of the Spring

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:28:24 -0400

Kathy and I got out for our first ride of the spring, a 17 mile loop around the Concord river. First north through Bedford into Carlisle, then south to Concord, then back again. Lots of horse farms along the way. Image from Google Earth.

Spring Update

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:35:57 -0400

It's finally spring here in Boston, and it's beginning to look like Mother Nature is agreeing that it's going to happen. I took out my bike last week for a short ride on the bike path, and most of the snow is gone off the ground - just a few small…

Holidays

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:24:03 -0500

We had a great time over the holidays, visiting Kathy's sister Lisa in Vienna, VA, where the grandparents, siblings, and all the cousins joined us as well. The only one missing, sadly, was Al J. Ross drove down from Philly with his friend Sabrina,…

Welcome Artie

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:15:14 -0500

With TC's sad departure from the household foreseen by us for some time, we had decided that we should get another cat to be a playmate for Casey as soon as possible. So we've been back to the shelter, where we found Artemus, or Artie for short. …

RIP TC 1992-2008

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:15:42 -0500

The last of the four pets we had while Ariana and Ross were growing up has left us for good. Ross's cat, Teela Comet, usually known as TC (except for RIck, who thought she was Tei Sei, or something like that), was suffering from cancer and we ended…

Obama Wins!

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:18:29 -0500

OK, we'll admit it: we were nervous. We did our small part by giving to the campaign, and Ben spent a few hours in New Hampshire on election day helping get out the vote, but we still feared that "our guy" would somehow not get the prize.

Se we are…

We've moved, etc.

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:38:53 -0400

Well, it's been an exciting, though difficult couple of weeks. We leased the new apartment as of September 15, and started moving on that Monday, having scheduled movers to pack and transport the bulk of things over on Tuesday the 16th. I came…

Hub on Wheels

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:21:49 -0400

Kathy and Ben plan to ride in the Hub on Wheels charity ride, which raises money for Technology Goes Home, a local group that trains inner-city families on the use of technology.

Kathy convinced her employer, Fortress Technologie to sponsor a team,…

Kathy's new piano

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:28 -0400

Since we're moving we're going to have space for a "real" piano, so we went to the Steinert piano sale at Symphony Hall and found a nice Boston upright. This is Steinway's mid-line: main components made in Japan by Kawai to a Steinway design, cased…

Finger Lakes Feasting

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:36:37 -0400

Ben's sister, Celia, runs a blog called Finger Lakes Feasting that talks about restaurants, wineries, food-related events, and has recipes that often feature local ingredients. Basically everything about food in the Finger Lakes Region of New York…

Moving to Bedford September 15

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:04:26 -0400

Various updates

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:09:17 -0400

Since the vacation we've kept busy, as usual. Kathy's now a project lead at work, which means that she can't afford to work from home as much as she used to - her people need her.

I've continued my work with the Boston Harbor Angels, trying to put…

Famous Littauer

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:42:47 -0400

Ben had minor surgery with a couple of stitches that the doctor figured he could take out at home. So a sterile suture removal kit was provided. Kathy looked at the contents and pointed out that these really were deigned for Ben. The scissors…

Welcome Casey

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:34:48 -0400

We have a new cat to keep us and TC company. Her name is Casey. You can see her first pictures here.

Hockey Academy Championship!

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:29:47 -0400

It was another championship hockey season for Ben. This time with the "gold" team (officially the Penguins) of the Hockey Academy league in Reading. Actually the jerseys were a rather sickly green, so they simply called themselves "puke". A guy…

Great Vacation!

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:31:32 -0400

We had yet another wonderful trip to the BVI. With our good friends Rick, Gitte, Erik & Emilie. Ariana was with us, but Ross was finishing up at Swarthmore so could not join us.

On a 40 foot catamaran. Very luxurious, but the jury's still out on…

RIP Gandalf 1992-2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:21:05 -0400

It's been a hard year for us with our geriatric pets. First Beta in October at age 14, now Gandalf has left us just before his 16th birthday. He developed a hard-to-diagnose but apparently fast-moving cancer. He had surgery in January, but after…