Sigita and I visit with Mrs. Valukas

Sigita and I spent a very nice afternoon with  Mrs. Valukas at her New Haven apartment. Valukiene is 90 years old now.   She was one of Vaiva's early mentors, so we had a wonderful conversation about those early days.  I have a cache of photos to scan, so there will be more postings tomorrow.

293 pages

I am going to visit Mrs. Valukas tomorrow, one of the New Haven Lithuanian matriarchs so influential in Vaiva's childhood.  She's 90, doesn't get out much, and doesn't have a computer.  So I'll be bringing her the two DVDs I've made, and I arranged to print the blog for her.

I used an internet service called blog2print, which reordered the pages and laid them out on 8.5 x 11 pages.  To my surprise, it came to 320 pages total.  However, that includes front and back covers that I don't need, 20 pages for a table  of contents listing the 534 separate posts, and some unexplained blank pages.  To print the content, which includes all the photos, I needed 293 pages.  I've collected them in a three-ring binder for her.

She may have some  blogworthy material to share about Vaiva.

Fifteen months

Vaiva died fifteen months ago today.