REMEMBER, BUTTERBALL TURKEY IS NOT AFFILIATED w/ GRANDPA's BUTTERBALL
FARMS
BUTTER,
APART from the
fact that grandpa sold the name “butterball” many years ago
to the
turkey
company (as an
aside, grandpa dabbled in the meat business as well,
& always hosted
big
thanksgiving meals
at
the butterball
mansion
:



The Recipe Critic

Monday, July 28, 2014

 THE ORIGINAL FIVE PETERS GIRLS: DIANA, LINDA, SANDRA, MARTHA, BARB 
(Brenda, developmentally disabled,  not shown)



 one of the few photos showing the Peters II family all together (with the family of Linda from the Peters I family ). THe photo is blurry, but from left to right is Jim (Linda's husband, my dad), Sandra (another member of the Peters I family), Linda (my mom), Julia (Linda's daughter, my sister), Mark (red jacket) & I think that's Andrea (or Ani, who is the oldest of the two Peters II sisters) behind Mark on the left just peeking over his shoulder, and then Nancy with my brother Andy standing behind Nancy, and finally grandpa Leo Peters. In the front row is Steve (my younger brother), myself with Teri's arm around me. We were all still 
somewhat friendly at this time
 in the mid-70's




Thursday, July 3, 2014

young me with young mark & young teri

 here's young mark and myself at the mansion at 750 plymouth playing with
his new christmas toy, a tyco race track
 here I am with young teri
at our house on eastern
 also in this photo is ani on the left, then julie & baby steve, teri, me,
& jim-dad in the background
here's teri sleeping over at our house on griswold...should i have been a gentleman and let her sleep on the bed ?

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

a few photos of me & friends with one of the Peters 2 family members shortly after college



 teri peters, jack holwerda, teri's friend stacey, & me....stacey was from georgia where teri met her in a nursing program...myself, teri, & jack were all in the same high school & college class...and we all grew up in grand rapids (except stacey)...so teri was not only my half-aunt (the daughter of my grandfather & his 2nd wife) but also a classmate and at times a friend...we were the same age and we're already playing together as kids at lake michigan...so even with some tension between the peters 1 & 2 families ...myself and teri still remained a friendship of sorts ...even though she occasionally took cheapshots at me ..which after a while I couldn't accept and we haven't really spoken in many years (she's married now as well, which makes things different)