This page provides links to archived PDFs of all posts published on News from Nan in 2024.
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 2024
Activities, Events
Family events we were privileged to attend in 2024.
Big Bunny run in Cupertino
Memorial Day with the Blomquists and Livengoods
Family get-togethers over the winter holidays
Dog days of August
Fire mitigation in Glen Ellen
Fourth of July fun
Labor Day
Mother’s Day with the Livengood bunch
Winter landscape
Tree cutting on Bonnie Way
AI-enhanced
This year, for the first time, we used Perplexity AI and other AI assistants to help create some of the new and reprised posts, specifically to:
- Do background research
- Summarize and contextualize existing text
- Generate new text
Astronomy
In 2024 Dick bought a Seestar smart telescope, and he enjoys photographing celestial objects and writing about them.
Comet of the century
March skies
Milky Way star clusters
Dick’s new Seestar telescope
Seestar meltdown averted
September skies
Solar eclipse
More stars and galaxies
Family History, Genealogy
In 2024 we created a number of posts using some of our favorite ancestor photos and records.
Anna and Dick’s 61st anniversary
March celebrations
Dick’s high-tech adventure: Looking back at the 1960s
Fall colors
February celebrations
Halloweens, past and present
January celebrations
Valentine’s Day
Happy birthday, Tante Bets!
Health
Anna’s myectomy recovery, two years out
Photography
Photography project: Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC)
Places we’ve called home
In 2022, we documented all the places we’ve lived in the past. Here is one more post.
Glen Ellen, California (2023-current)
Travel
Our longest trip this past year was to Minnesota to see Archer and Glen graduate from high school.
Archer and Glen’s high school graduation
Regional travel to Santa Clara County
