About
  1978  To  1979


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We are visiting my folks in Cataumet, MA


February, 1978


Back home, our potbelly warmed our home nicely







Found this mahogany roll-top desk at an auction.









New sprout on the Schefflera umbrella tree plant





Debra Blakeman waiting in our shop near
the Princeton hospital during the '78 blizzard

Darby Dale Blakeman, Age 0




February 07, 1978














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Talk












Darby and her paternal great grandmother
Charlotte Phillips Van Cleve Church


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Cataumet, MA

















Back home

July, 1978
























Deb painted vines on our kitchen cabinets


August, 1978




My workbench in the basement


Experimenting with a high speed
film needing no flash



























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Painting by my sister Hannah H Blakeman
















Fall trees and a red house on a placid lake

Reading the Trenton Times newspaper



Talk



December, 1978


Got a new Ulefos wood stove


Much, much nicer then the old potbelly














December 25, 1978








Pepper the cat
February, 1979


Aaron Stover

1979


Our screened cabana on a redwood platform
in the back yard behind the cottage

Chopping small firewood for the wood stove





Darby Blakeman, age 1
February 07, 1979




Deb and Darby are vacationing in California
April, 1979

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This is the South Laguna community park



























Visiting old neighbors Bill and Bernice Bailey

















Our old home next door





















The new owners turned the rear deck into a dining room
















Bill and Bernice taking Deb to check out the trailer

Joshua Tree, CA
April 15, 1979
















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Bernice Bailey





with Miles Staples and Willa Bailey Gupta















Bill and Bernice's back yard
April 17, 1979



The first 'On Consignment' in our lives. This one in
Laguna Beach. I opened one in Princeton, NJ

Back home in Monmouth Junction, NJ


Maternal grandparents Stanley and Barbara Hildebrand

May, 1979












I made this sign for Paul Hill's Fine Foods


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I made this sign for Crisp N' Clear Printing
Princeton, NJ

I made this sign for my shop, On Consignment
later renamed Princeton Furnishings & Antiques

Connecting to the town's new sewage line






























South Brunswick bringing in a new sewer line










Talk
















Preparing to lay a second driveway
in back of the cottage

Ernie Sturgeon did the heavy lifting in exchange for ...

letting him park his machine until all sewers were in










Our Arborvitae corner now includes a stockade
fence discarded by my shop's landlord

Red and Barabra's back yard in Pennington, NJ

Bobby Stover with Dar




Darby and dad in Squeteague Harbor
Cataumet, MA








With paternal grandmother

Virginia Davidson Blakeman

Dar and cousin Erich Martin Giebel







Paternal grandfather Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
sailing the boat







Ed Delaney and Eileen Delaney
Talk



Best friend neighbors trick-or-treating


Monmouth Junction, NJ





Me




in my shop: Princeton Furnishings And Antiques


aka: On Consignment


Posing for an article
about the store

Family Thanksgiving




November 22, 1979































December 25, 1979
















Deb's family



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