Austin Headland:  

WOW!!! It's the middle of September 2016 and the graduating class of 1966 will be holding their 50th Class Reunion soon. Time has passed so quickly and I am looking forward to traveling to Ohio and visiting my classmates from yesteryear. Will it be as though we just saw each other last week or will we be like total strangers? Well let me give y'all some background on what I have been up to since my last post. My health is still hanging in there. I suffered minor nerve damage in the last two fingers of my right hand and had a fusion performed on C7 of my spine. Other than that nothing of significance has hampered my health and growing older gracefully. Speaking of getting older, that's just what our grandchildren are doing. Corey (16) is a junior in high school and now has his drivers' license. His main interests are hunting, fishing and country music. His brother Gage (14) is a freshman in high school and he plays baseball nearly all year long. He is currently playing for the Northview High Freshman and Varsity teams. Amy and Mike are very proud of both of them. Austin and Saranda have two young ladies to raise. Gabrielle (14) is a high school freshman and is discovering boys. Aside from that she really likes working with little children and has expressed an interest in becoming a kindergarten teacher. Katelyn (13) attends 8th grade and plays volleyball for the Carver Junior High team. She is leaving her options for the future open at this time. Cesily and Spence also have two young ladies in their household. Abby (14) is a freshman at her high school and is a junior varsity cheerleader. At this time she would like to go into the field of psychiatry. Addison (8) is still our baby and she is in the 3rd grade. She is very shy but overcomes that feeling when she is on stage with her team or individually doing various dance routines in competition. Maybe someday we'll see her on DWTS😀. Lorrie and I took two of our families to Disney World in March of 2015 for a five day visit with the Mickey and his friends. The other family could not join us because their school system had different Spring break dates. It all worked out when Abby's cheerleading squad was selected to represent their district from Alabama to march in the Disney Magic Kingdom parade. Lorrie and I went to join them for the week and watched Abby and over 200 other cheerleaders from Alabama perform on Thanksgiving Day. Lorrie and I are still enjoying the sport of scuba diving and doing underwater photography. Since the last writing we have been to the Caribbean islands of Little Cayman and Grenada for a week and took an extended vacation to Bonaire for 4 weeks. We also enjoy land trips and have been to Niagara Falls, Cape Cod, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis (Graceland), Tupelo (Elvis' birthplace), Put in Bay, Boston, Tucson and Southern Arizona, Cleveland, and Fairport Harbor. Our kids say we should sell our home and get a motor home to travel around the country. I've seen the Robin Williams' movie RV and I don't think I would like that at all. Hope to see many of you at the 50th reunion in a few weeks! Austin Headland September 15, 2016 It's been over two years since my last update and the major change in our lives is that Lorrie and I retired in March 2014 and we are thoroughly enjoying our free time with no setting of alarm clocks. We don't play golf like we used to as a have had back surgery and rotator cuff surgery on my left shoulder. I feel it won't be much longer before I'll need surgery done on the right shoulder. The first adventure we enjoyed after retiring was a two week scuba diving trip to Fiji in the South Pacific. Marine life there is very different from the Caribbean and we had the opportunity to do several organized shark feed dives. We had some great photo ops but the water was quite murky from the activity of the sharks and the chum debri that clarity was not very g...Expand for more