sorry for the delay also family reunion

I can't believe it has been so long since i made a post here.

but a lot has happened, and things have been quite busy.

summer has come and gone, thanksgiving is over, and Christmas is bearing down on eingn

soon we will be seeing more snow like in the picture.

Marissa went through graduation, and is now a college student here at WVU-P, and is staying with us.

She has a new cat called Izzy, and, fortunately, Izzy has agreed to let the rest of us live in his house.

now, about the Murphy reunion. a shelter has been reserved at Parkersburg City Park for Sunday, June 20, 2010.

There will be other activities in the park at that time, which should provide entertainment for kids, and maybe others if they kwant to look around. it is a multi-cultural festival, and it will have food booths, entertainment, and craft sales, among other things. more on all this later.

As we go into the darkest time of the year, just keep in mind all the thoughts that go with the phrase, MERRY CHRISTMAS, and know that the sun will soon be coming back to light up oru lives.

havahappy

jerry murphy

FAMILY REUNION, 2009

A COUPLE OF SHOTS FROM THE MURPHY REUNION AT NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO.

Reunions are a very important family activity, and it is just too bad that so many do not place enough value on their family relationship to show up and support be supportive.

In the scheme of things, there is nothing more important than family. And those who do not think that their family is good enough to support

should reallize that they have the potential to improve the situation, whatever it is, if it is not to their liking. Of course, there are circumstance such as distance or health which prevent some people from attending, and that is understandable.

the top photo of this group shows a rare scene--two of Francis Murphy's daughters at the reunion at the same time. Inez Maggio who is the oldest, and Zelma Heaters, who is the youngest of those sisters. it was nice to see them since they don't get to attend all that often.

Another graduation picture

This may be the picture of a lifetime. it is Marissa standing in front of the goalpost with the moon between the uprights just over her head.
What a nice evening, and what a nice event, and what a nice omen this must be. just as the moon was rising, so will be her future and her life.

Marissa's graduation

Well, Marissa is now officially a graduate of Palmyra High School, Palmyra, Pa.

These are pictures of some of the event, before during and after. It was a beautiful evening, the weather finally became perfect for the outdoor event, and, most impressive, the bleachers were filled with parents, relatives and well-wishers of the graduates. It is gratifying to see a community turn out so whole-heartedly to support their young people as they commence the path to the rest of their lives.

the program was originally scheduled for Friday, the 5th of June, but had to be held on the rain date of June 6.

another trip down memory lane

the top picture is Nancy with her tricycle when we lived donw on Hansford fork. I guess that she was about four years old in the picture.

the second picture was taken over in the edge of greenbrier county about 1962 or thereabouts.

left to right is Mary Hamrick, Nancy, Kay, holding a white kitten, Jimmy, and me.

and we are leaning on the front of a 1960 light blue Falcon.

Buying the Falcon seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was not. It was a pretty good car, but not a very friendly one. i never did really like it, and i always thought that it would blow up on me.

which it finally did, but with over 90,000 miles on it.

one thing that is easy to notice--we were all a lot thinner back then.

John and Lori

well, this picture is a little bit old, but it is a shows John and Lori in different pictures at Christmas time--at least i think it was Christmas time--may not have been though.

sometimes older pictures are best, because they help to remind us of how it was and may be a time we like to look back on, or go back to.

I have lots of pictures to put on this site, and i will do so, but sometimitmes it just doesn't work right.

These pictures were taken at John's house, and John is holding Preston's pinewood derby racer.

Marissa at her 18th birthday.

Although it happened a while back, here are pictures of Marissa enjoying her 18th birthday.

It is hard to bellieve that she is now 18 and 1/2, and coming up on high school graduation. Seems like no time at all that we were driving across the show covered mountains at the time she was born.

Time has certainly flown by, from Granddad's perspective, but probably not so fast from hers.

During the growing up years it steems like time passes so slowly, but after you get to my station in life and look back, it certainly seemed to have gone by way too quickly.