Thursday, July 9, 2009

• The Give Thanks Bakery in Downtown Rochester
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

• Barnstorming with Nine Harpists

  You really had to be there on Saturday night; I can share some pictures but the music was so marvelous, and I can't relate that experience. (…)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

• Ruth Graham - Daughter of Billy and Ruth

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Monday, May 5, 2008

• Fame in the Dalton Household - The Give Thanks Bakery, Theresa and Gerald

  Yesterday, we were surprised to see both Theresa and Gerald Matthes on the front page of the Rochester Eccentric. It’s an article about the Give Thanks Bakery in downtown Manchester Rochester where Theresa works as the office manager. Here is a link to the article which also has turned up on the Free Press website.   Please check out the article and come visit the Give Thanks Bakery sometime. (…)

Saturday, April 26, 2008

• Kathy Dalton's Magnolia Tree taken on Thursday

   
   

   

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

• Saturday Morning Trip

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  Early Saturday Morning Sky in Rochester, Michigan heading out for a men's event in Lexington, Michigan.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

• The ZingTrain Comes to Downtown Rochester

  Tuesday night the ZingTrain rolled into dowtown Rochester, to help local retailers and other members of the Rochester Downtown Development Authority keep on the right track to happy customers.    It was two hours of well spent time as the training arm of Zingerman's from Ann Arbor shared it's approach to caring for their business through caring for customers and employees.   The trainer Kari Nehro did a great job in her presentation and I was privileged to be able to sit on on this valuable session.   I took pictures, please feel free to look them over. (…)

Friday, April 11, 2008

• Detroit Memories
  A Fun Website to Spend Some Time On

  Take a trip down memory lane if you're from the Detroit Area.    ENJOY ! ! ! (…)

Thursday, March 6, 2008

• Checkout Our City Portal at LookUpDetroit.com - Great links around Metro Detroit

  Just added a preview feature on the LookUpDetroit Site.   Let me know how you like it!
  Link to the Site

   

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

• Making a Difference in Metro Detroit - a catalog of compassion

  Please take some time and see about connecting with various volunteer opportunities on our website at www.GoingToHelp.com 

   

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

• Frigidaire Old and New

  We live in a downtown Rochester, Michigan home built in 1918 or so.   Our kitchen was updated in the late fifties and we still use the fifty old old Frigidaire Oven where Theresa's makes the world's best Chocolate Chip Cookies along with other great menu items to feed the family.  
  Take a look at our new refrigerator, also a Frigidaire.  They stand side by side in our historic kitchen.  
   

Saturday, February 2, 2008

• Alsan in Ice - READ THE BOOKS ! ! !

  I took this picture last Saturday in Downtown Rochester, while hearing a father telling his daughter he would be introducing Narnia to her soon through watching the film. (…)

Friday, February 1, 2008

• Back Preaching and Celebrating
  at Church of the Holy Redeemer

  On Sunday, Feb 3rd, I have the honor of both preaching and celebrating communion at Church of the Holy Redeemer in Rochester Hills.   Although separated from the C.E.C. (…)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

• Monday Night at Rochester College

   
  Last Sunday night for some reason I was thinking about Rochester College, which is a Christian school within 2 miles of my house.   A few months back, I was invited to speak at their chapel service, and Sunday I was thinking about perhaps knocking on the door of some of the students to get some web help from someone, more savvy than I.   Interestingly, the next day I was sent an e-mail from a dear friend Pastor Rufus Harris informing me that he was going to be in a group discussion at Rochester College that evening.  He asked for prayers for the event and also inquired if I would like to attend. (…)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

• Listen to Theresa Dalton and Ann Strubler on
  CD Baby Website

  Last September, we had a wonderful time in a recording studio.  Theresa sang many of her original songs and Ann Strubler a dear friend and violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra came, adding some violin to many of those songs.   We finally have the CD in hand from those recordings. 
  Checkout the song samples at the CD Baby Website:
  Click Here

Friday, January 11, 2008

• It Might As Well Be Spring
  this January's Tuesday walk with the dogs
  thank you Al Gore

  I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm,
  I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string
  I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring
  I am starry eyed and vaguely discontented, like a nightingale without a song to sing
  O why should I have spring fever, when it isn't even spring

  I keep wishing I were someone else, walking down a strange new street
  And hearing words that I've never heard from a girl I've yet to meet
  I'm as busy as spider spinning daydreams, spinning spinning daydreams
  I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing

  I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing
  But I feel so gay in a melancholy way, that it might as well be spring
  It might as well be spring. (…)

Thursday, January 3, 2008

• I Remember Mama by Kathy Dalton
  A Christmas Letter Tribute to Marion Dalton

  "I Remember Mama" was a television program that was popular when I was a child and this year I thought I would mark the first anniversary of my mother, Marion Dalton's death on December 25th, Christmas Day 2006 with some remembrances of her life. (…)

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

• Missing Marion

  I write this just a year after my mother's funeral.  Marion Dalton was born on the Fourth of July and died on Christmas Day.   Life is not as interesting without Marion,  always something different with Marion.  You could expect the unexpected.   My sister Kathy wrote a wonderful tribute to our mom in her Christmas letter, as soon as she sends the text by computer file I will put it in a new post.  (see tomorrow)  Meanwhile, here is a poem I wrote years ago in tribute to Mom:
  Marion Gertrude Dalton 1924 - 2006
  Written in 1984 for her 60th birthday
  Marion, an American
  Was born July the fourth,
  With firecrackers cracking:
  She’ll be a patriot of course. (…)

Thursday, December 6, 2007

• Downtown Rochester - ALL LIT UP FOR CHRISTMAS

  Three blocks from our house, this is what you'll see:
   

   
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

• A Sad Day in the Dalton Household

  Today, I'll be taking a trip to the Humane Society to say goodbye to our family cat.   Sammi has been our pet cat for the past 16 years, as I remember our member our daughter Elisabeth had a friend who had a kitten available.   All the children rallied along with their mother asking dad to agree to add this little kitten to the Dalton family. I never was a cat person, so I wasn't quick to agree, but they wore me down, and I consented.  Frankly, cats are astounding creatures; Sammi’s agility, beauty, composure, intelligence and independence has impressed all of us, including our dogs over the years. (Dog: “How did she jump up on the table like that?”)
  It's sad to lose Samatha today, in the above picture is one I took in October and she was looking pretty good.  Lately she stopped grooming herself, I think she suffers some internal pain and of course quite old, she won't consistently use the Kitty Liter Box, so she  has been living on our porch.  I know we are doing the humane thing for her, but it is hard for all of us.