Jon Petersen:  

I hope that you, who are reading this, are healthy, safe and secure. We look forward, to 2023 with hope. New Mexico, overall has had pretty good coverage in getting New Mexicans vaccinated. Our family is 100% vaccinated. We had no fruit whatsoever this past summer (2022) 2022 has been an especially bad year with a number of Connie's family passing this year. Oldest brother, the his wife. A sister, one week after the brother; sister's son earlier in the year. A brother-in-law at end of 2021. And a niece before them all. We are in the process of improving our backyard landscaping, starting by building a gazebo. After completion then we'll move on to the remainder of the yard. Working on getting certain weeds eradicated, bind-weed (morning glory) for one. Nasty and tough. We hope to travel to SoCal sometime in June. Nothing set in stone yet. Gotta get some health issues resolved first. Best regards to all my NTHS classmates. May God Bless you and keep you safe, well and protected from COVID. Jon 50th Reunion Comments (Oct. 15, 2016): What a GREAT event. Had lots of fun, greeting and talking with our friends from the past; maybe making old friends new again. . And everybody looked really good. And truly, all the Ladies of our class are still "crush-worthy". I provided my home e-mail address and cell phone # to Kathleen (Vess) Valvo for anyone who had pics to share. Love to hear from you, anyone and everyone. Would also like to hear from some who were at the reunion but are not on CLASSMATES and did not add their contact info for the Reunion Book. (Charles Hammond is one of those; where are you Charles?) Best Regards, God Bless always to any reading this.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~LIFE: I married my high-school sweetheart, Connie, in October of 1967.. Fifty-five years October '22 just like our HS Reunion I say, "WOW, where dd the years go?!". We have one son, two grandchildren, ages 23 and 18 and one daughter, age 17. "Retired" life is not what we expected or planned for. But God chose to give us a daughter in our 50's and she keeps us active. Raising a teenage girl is a lot different that having raised a son, "several years ago" We keep busy with work in our yard, a never-ending chore keeping an acre clean from all sort of weeds. We do try. Connie and I have begun to feel our age as we each have had our share of health related issues. But in spite of those we get up every day and keep moving; a little slower but still ":forward" . Tending to an acre of land is no picnic.I hated the task of weeding our backyard on 179th Street in Torrance as a teen.and now that "hate" is intensified as we have much more "intense" weeds. Goat-heads (puncture vine) and tumble weeds, Chinese Elm and Locust trees.. We slowly mak...Expand for more