The ground work has been done for the 2009 Bollwitt Reunion. Now we would like to invite others to join this web site to let us know something about who you are and how you fit into the family tree. So how do you get started? First you need to register. In the bottom right hand corner of this web page you see META. Click on the Register link.
How to register.
Next put your name into the box. Please use your name so we know who you are. It will take a day or two to get your password. When you get your password, you can log in and change your password to something you can easily remember.
Step 2 in getting registered.
I am learning this process just like you will be. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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This week is National Catholic School Week. I heard from our son, Mike, that Julia and Alex had Pajama day on Monday. Josie K’s was on Tuesday. Today is “dress in the dark day” at Sacred Heart School in Monticello. Yesterday afternoon, we had a dozen cookies delivered to our office as a thank you for the time and effort we devote to the school over the past year. In came two six grade girls dressed in their pajamas with big smiles and a thank you from each of the girls as they dashed in and out. It was great, but I didn’t have time to snap a picture of them. Instead here is a picture of what is left of the cookies.
We are experiencing a very nice warm up – in the 40’s, but it is predicted to be back in the teens this weekend. Hope that doesn’t mean subzero for the Iowa clan. When I post off the contributor level, I “Submit for Review” rather than publish. Does this mean that you don’t have to approve those from the author or editor?
At 4:15 Saturday afternoon, I got a call from Neil Steege asking me if what I was doing, and I told him, like the good accountant , I was working on taxes. Well, short story — a semi-surprise retirement party was going to happen around 5:30 in a town about an hour away from us for Duaine’s former Post Office supervisor, Bruce Smith. Had anyone notified us? No, but it sounded like something we should attend and as soon as I hung up the phone with Neil, I called Duaine to tell him about the party. He thought it sounded good to him, and I headed home from the office to change clothes we were out the door by 4:30.
It turned out to be quite the reunion for Duaine and a lot of his former co-workers. A fun group gathered at the Dry Dock Sports Bar & Grill in Shueyville, IA to wish Bruce Smith Happy Retirement. 
Bruce Smith & Duaine Bollwitt- Together again!
I have lots of help today. This is day 6 of the unplanned, much appreciated long weekend for the local schools due to weather and the MLK holiday. Josie K. is busy helping Grandma shredding archives of paper and helping Grandpa with his little projects.
After the sub zero temperatures, getting on the plus side has people out strolling around smiling like it was spring.
The two Josies.