This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2022.
Note: All of the PDF files linked below are viewable (here), as well as downloadable and printable. Any links you encounter in the PDF files might (or might NOT) work.
Highlights
This is a summary/overview of our year.
Highlights 2022
Activities, events
Our pet rocks
Family vacation in Glen Ellen
Four December birthdays
Fourth of July parade in Glen Ellen
Graduations in the Livengood family
Family history, genealogy
Genealogy information in the 1950 census
Dick’s mother, Lillian competes in a music festival
Health
Anna’s myectomy (an open-heart surgery)
Anna’s myectomy recovery
Anna and Dick’s 5K race after her surgery
Nan’s writings
In about 1990, Nan wrote these remembrances about her childhood in Minden City, Michigan, where she lived between 1906 and 1924.
Nan remembers: Books and music
Nan remembers: Foods
Nan remembers: Four happenings
Nan remembers: Horses and cars
Nan remembers: Household routines
Nan remembers: Modern conveniences
Nan remembers: Pets
Anna’s comments on pets
Nan remembers: The “red house”(Nan’s childhood home)
Nan remembers: Riedel Lumber Company (the business owned by her father)
Photography
Anna’s favorite photos: Blomquist pets
Fungi
Anna’s favorite photos: Livengood pets
Dick’s nature diary
Heron rookery in Santa Rosa
Petsitting
Places we’ve lived
In 2021-2023 we did a series of posts describing all the places we had lived, from birth onward. Most of those posts are linked below.
(Dick) Lemon Grove and Spring Valley, California
UCLA (Los Angeles)
San Diego
Encino, California
Inglewood and Torrance, California
Morganville, New Jersey
Cupertino, California (Medina Lane)
Cupertino, California (Bel Aire Ct)
San Jose, California (Almaden Valley)
San Jose, California (Willow Glen)
Cupertino, California (Lucky Oak Ct)
El Dorado Hills, California
Cupertino and San Jose, California
Lyons, Colorado
San Jose, California (Villages)
Rohnert Park, California
Travel
Due to Anna’s open-heart surgery (including prep and recovery), there were not many chances for travel. The only trip we took out of Northern California was one visit to see the Blomquists in Minnesota.
Minnesota
