Thanksgiving 2006

Thanksgiving at Tim Creighton's new Bryson City residence. It was nice to be home again and amongst family. We've much to be thankful for in this season.

Our Day With Larry's Family

This was an early Thanksgiving dinner at son Larry's home in Brandon, Florida. The children are our great grandchildren, Trinity and Cameron. The golden retrievers are Kacy and Kato.

Correction!

I post this as a correction to the last paragraph of the January 21, 2006 posting where I described the death of my grandfather Croft. On a visit to my Aunt Lucille Croft who is nearing her 90th birthday she gave me what is likely a more accurate version of Grandfather Croft’s death. On that fateful day in December of 1924 a neighbor came to the Croft farmhouse to announce that one of Henry Croft’s cows had escaped. Henry rushed out and saddled the first horse he could find to go look for the cow. It was not his favorite horse, but one normally used to pull wagons and not used to the saddle. They found the cow, but while herding it back the horse reared, threw Henry off and fell on top of him. When the horse returned home without its rider, Drew went looking for his father. Finding him severely injured he ran back to get their car and returned to lift his father into the car. They took him to town to the doctor, but his neck was broken and nothing could be done to save him. Some of this has to be speculation because no one knew for sure what caused the accident. Was the horse spooked by a snake? Did the cow veer away and the unpracticed horse react in a way that caused the accident? Did the horse run under a low tree limb and brush off his rider? Did the saddle come loose? Since there were no witnesses we’ll never know those details.



This was the last known picture of Henry and Laura Croft with son Wade, made shortly before Henry's death in 1924.

In Brandon

We're in Brandon after the caravan for a visit with Larry and family. Here's a couple of pictures of Larry and his golden retriever puppy as they both go to Puppy School. Kacy is a she - 6 months old.