Top 3 2025

 3. Joining Healthplex, going with Larry

2. Being Believed by VA

1. 32-day cruise to Hawaii and French Polynesia

Also:

Joshua Tree National Park

Art Shows

Rec therapy/art therapy

Birthday at Turkey Run Inn

Permanent position Newfields Culinary

Bowling league

Storytelling class

Storytelling show at District Theater

Really fun bike ride Butler, tow path, downtown

Swallowtail butterflies fostering

Camping trip at Shades

Eric and Michele wedding

Monarch butterfly fostering

Taylor Swift

House exterior update

Before

After

Clifty Falls (even though Larry fell and cracked his head on a rock going down a steep ravine. He says that other than the injury, the blood, and the trip to the urgent care, it was one of his favorite things of 2025, too.)

Father's Day Michigan

ASAP classes--storytelling, encaustic painting, nature journaling, drawing

First Place Performance Original Work "A Call to Disorder" 

First Place Original Needlework: "Grandma's 70s Polyester Pantsuit Squares" quilt

Beer garden and Summer Nights

Chuck visit

Vet Camp

Artists Among Us feature IMA

ArtTroop at Indy Arts Center

Second Harvest Nights

Retired person's drinking brunch at Ralf and Jim's

Open Mic Poetry at IndyReads

Connections feature Indy Art Center

Really fun day with Larry November 70 degrees Marott park, Broad Ripple Brew Pub, Fernando's, ice cream BRICS

Veterans Day

Second Winter Lights

Annual Christmas dinner Ralf and Jim here 12/22

Christmas Eve at Earl's, Christmas at Mom and Dad's, our own house at Christmas

New Year's Eve at Ralf and Jim's

New friends, Newfields and Veterans: Hiedi, Josie, Elizabeth, CJ, Melissa, Gaylie, Johnnie, Laurie, Janet, Robin