2003—Back to work, et cetera
IsaacDeckerGrave By July, the debilitating darkness of displacement-depression (thanks, Algernon) had receded enough to permit some attention to family-history duties. First task: follow up on Grandpa Isaac Decker’s gravestone project.

On the 10th of July (the day before our 39th wedding anniversary), I rode Hepzibah to the Salt Lake City Cemetery and chased down the resting places of a couple dozen kinfolk.
Incorporated most of that day’s photos into the Section named SaltLakeCemetery, which I formatted so that it could be printed into a ten-stop tour-guide brochure.

It took a couple more years of spreading the word, before enough money came in to have a proper monument made, so that we could gather on 11 November 2006 and rededicate Grandpa Isaac’s grave.
Meanwhile, our Olsens had chosen Keokuk, Iowa, for their new home. In August, we tried out our new Eleanor’s long-trek capabilities by driving the 2500-mile round-trip.

Recent experiences with the terrors of déménagement1 may have restrained our shutterbugging proclivities: one hesitates to preserve much record of the consequent disorder. Or maybe I’ve just misplaced the pictures. But the next photos in our collection don’t record our beautiful newly-Iowan grandchildren, but rather our first homeward-bound stop at Florence, Nebraska, where the Neff grist-mill still stands.

1I keep remembering the French saying, “Trois déménagements font une incendie…”
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