More comments on the fence....from Mary Jo

Thanks to those of you who posted.  Just a comment from my historical perspective:  I know the first picture was taken in the summer of 1984.  Alex is the baby in the picture.  Suzanne wasn't on the scene yet.  She was born in the summer of '84, but didn't arrive here until October of that year, and since Andrew is in the picture, I know we were at the picnic.  The last picture Janice posted was staged to be the same kids in the same positions as they were in the first picture.  There is another picture from that day, too, that was taken immediately afterwards, that included all of the kids that had joined the family in the intervening 11 years.  I do remember that was taken in 1995, because Andrew had just graduated from high school and I was feeling sentimental because he was leaving the next day for his first full-time job...traveling around the state with an electronics company pulling cable to wire schools for the internet!  Wow, talk about "historical" times.