Friday, May 20, 2011
Linky in The Villages
Yesterday, we had a welcome visitor. Tom Link, one of my former students at Bennett Junior High, visited us in The Villages. Tom was one of our "gems" at Bennett. He was a short, skinny little 7th. grader, and so cute. In Physical Education class, while waiting to play an activity, or waiting for the rest of the kids to get dressed out, Jon Baumhauer and I 
always had Tom sitting between us. That way we could bore him with lectures about what we did at his age, and also , since he was so cute, one of us, at some point in the class, would grab him by the neck and give him some "noogies" and sing to him our version of the Durante hit, only we sang it as "Link- a- dink- a do!" Tom was also a good friend of Jana's brother Brett, and we have always kept up on each others' whereabouts. Tom visited us at Thanksgiving our first year here, when Brett and his wife Phebe, came to our home for Thanksgiving. We all had a good time. Tom lives in Orlando, and, from the beautiful white Lexus in our driveway, he is doing well. Our picture, here, is from last night's drinks and dinner trip to Cane Garden Country Club in The Villages. We gave Tom the grand tour again, since it has grown from 45,000 to 85,000 in the past 5 years. At Cane , we had many laughs and good stories, and Tom, now 6'3" and very fit, filled us in on his P90X program, which he practices faithfully...obviously a carryover from his love of his physical education class at Bennett...(hey, I had to put that in here !!) Nike, our 26 lb. Maine Coon cat, sat on his lap right away, and adopted him as his Uncle Tom. We all had a wonderful visit, and a fun evening.
always had Tom sitting between us. That way we could bore him with lectures about what we did at his age, and also , since he was so cute, one of us, at some point in the class, would grab him by the neck and give him some "noogies" and sing to him our version of the Durante hit, only we sang it as "Link- a- dink- a do!" Tom was also a good friend of Jana's brother Brett, and we have always kept up on each others' whereabouts. Tom visited us at Thanksgiving our first year here, when Brett and his wife Phebe, came to our home for Thanksgiving. We all had a good time. Tom lives in Orlando, and, from the beautiful white Lexus in our driveway, he is doing well. Our picture, here, is from last night's drinks and dinner trip to Cane Garden Country Club in The Villages. We gave Tom the grand tour again, since it has grown from 45,000 to 85,000 in the past 5 years. At Cane , we had many laughs and good stories, and Tom, now 6'3" and very fit, filled us in on his P90X program, which he practices faithfully...obviously a carryover from his love of his physical education class at Bennett...(hey, I had to put that in here !!) Nike, our 26 lb. Maine Coon cat, sat on his lap right away, and adopted him as his Uncle Tom. We all had a wonderful visit, and a fun evening.
