Peg Ostrander
David Ostrander
child of Margaret
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born Feb 25, 1982 · 44 on Oct 5, 2026
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52 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
May 15
Owen Raymond Sievert, born yesterday, May 14, at 3:52 in the morning. Eight pou…
…nds one ounce. Ellen is well. I am writing this in her guest room in Naperville with Gus asleep across the doorway.
We were up north. It was our second weekend at the cabin. I was down at the shore at a quarter to six with my coffee, on the bench by the boathouse, because the loons came back to the island on Thursda…
2012
Jan 15
Fourteen below with the wind. The Packers lost to the Giants at home after losi…
…ng one game all season. R. turned it off with six minutes left, said "Well," and went down to the basement to sharpen chisels.
Sunday calls: Ellen at 6:30, tired, Owen has an ear infection. David did not pick up. Kate texted "busy can I call tmrw" and I answered that tomorrow was fine.
I am rereading "Kristin Lavra…
Jul 8
The hottest Fourth I can remember up here: 96 on the thermometer by the boathou…
…se, and the lake down a good foot on the dock posts. Nobody slept. The children were in the water from breakfast until the bats came out.
David and Julia have set the date: October 6, at Estes Park, outdoors, at 7,500 feet. I said it sounded lovely and R. said, "Bring a coat."
I told Mom about Sogndal on the teleph…
Jul 8
Fourth of July week, cabin.
- Hannah (3 1/2) caught her first fish off the dock on Thursday, a sunfish. Ray held the rod.
- Loons: no chick this year. Per Bev, the pair sat on the island nest in May and the black flies drove them off it.
- Flag cake needs 2 pints of blueberries and 2 of red berries. Write it on the recipe.
For the calendar: Dav…
Sep 15
Long-arm quilting, David and Julia's wedding quilt
Darla, at Stitchery Lane. Pine-bough pattern, edge to edge, 88 x 108. · Long-arm quilting, David and Julia's wedding quilt
Sep 21
Pack for Estes Park
2013
Mar 9
A first-grader asked me on Thursday whether I live in the library. I said no, I…
…have a house. She thought about it and asked who feeds the books at night.
Also: David and Julia are expecting, in August. He called on a Wednesday to say so.
Aug 11
Baby quilt for Denver: finished before the baby. No. 33.
Flying Geese in the fish prints, cream background, 42 x 52. Backing is the brown trout flannel.
Label left blank after "For" until there is a name.
Aug. 22: "For Lucas David, from Grandma Peg, 2013. No. 33."
Aug 21
Lucas David Ostrander, born today at 2:47 in the afternoon, seven pounds even,…
…in Denver, nine days ahead of his date.
I have been here since Saturday, sent for early because Julia's doctor did not like her blood pressure. So for once I was on the spot. I was in the waiting room on the fourth floor with Julia's mother, each of us pretending to do a crossword. David came through the doors in a…
2014
Feb 9
Mom died this morning at twenty minutes to seven. February 9, 2014. She was eig…
…hty-seven.
Judy and I were both there. Judy had the night, and telephoned Walt's a little after four because the breathing had changed, and Walt and I drove over on empty streets before the heater was warm. At half past six he went down the hall for coffee. He was gone ten minutes, and those were the ten minutes. I…
Feb 11
Two days of arrangements. The funeral is Friday at eleven at Our Saviour's, whe…
…re she was a member for sixty-five years and where R. and I were married. Burial at Coon Prairie beside Dad afterward. Walt asked whether the ground would allow it. The sexton says they have a way of thawing it. Friday is Valentine's Day. Nobody had noticed until the florist said so.
Judy wrote the obituary and I wa…
Feb 14
We buried Mom today.
About 140 people at Our Saviour's, which for a woman of eighty-seven, on a Friday in February, at four below zero, is a compliment she would have noted. What is left of the Ladies Aid sat together in the fourth pew on the left, where they always did. Vi came from Bethel Ridge in the van with two aides.
Judy read the…
Jul 6
Fourth of July week at the cabin. Eleven of us: Ellen's four, David's three, Ka…
…te and her friend Samir Khoury.
Who slept where: us in the lake bedroom; Ellen and Mark in the north bedroom; Hannah and Owen in the twins; David, Julia and the playpen in the main room on the sofa bed; Kate and Samir in the tent.
Lucas, ten months, at the cabin for the first time.
Loons: two chicks hatched about…
2015
May 3
We own a new boat, a Lund. R. picked it up at Pike Bay yesterday morning and ha…
…d it in the water for the opener by ten. He has been reading about this boat since Christmas. The old Alumacraft goes to Arnie's nephew.
Jim Hrdlicka was in the bow. They came in at four with five walleye and a discussion of the trim that continued through supper. David had meant to come and could not get away.
The…
Jun 5
Kransekake for Kate's wedding: how it is made, and how it is getting to Portlan…
…d.
The dough: 500 g almond flour (half blanched, half not), 500 g powdered sugar, 4 egg whites. Knead until it holds. Rest overnight in the refrigerator.
Roll ropes as thick as my finger and lay them in the ring forms (18 rings, six forms, buttered and dusted with semolina). 400 degrees, 10 to 12 minutes, until just…
Dec 20
R. has given them the date: Friday, January 29. Thirty-eight years at Brennecke…
…& Voss. He told the partners on Tuesday and me on Monday.
I have a year and a half to go, if I go when I mean to. I asked what he plans to do all day while I am at school. He said, "Whatever I want, quietly."
Julia is expecting again, in March; we have known since Thanksgiving. David rang tonight to say that all is…
2016
Mar 9
Maeve Dorothy Ostrander, born this morning in Denver at 6:04 their time. Seven…
…pounds two.
I was in the middle of story hour with Mrs. Kowalski's third grade, reading aloud, with the telephone face down on the cart, where it buzzed twice. I finished the book. I could not tell you now what it was. When they had gone I turned the telephone over, and there she was in a striped hat, with the name…
Jul 5
Family week 2016. Twelve of us. Who slept where:
- North bedroom: David, Julia and Maeve (4 months).
- Back bedroom, twins: Hannah and Owen. Lucas (nearly 3) on the cot between them, which was a mistake; put him with his parents.
- Sofa bed in the main room: Ellen and Mark.
- Tent: Kate and Samir.
Oct 31
Benign. Renata, the nurse at the Breast Center, telephoned at 2:15 and used tha…
…t word first, almost before my name. A fibroadenoma, with calcification in it. Nothing to be done. Back to a mammogram once a year, like anyone.
I was at school. It is Halloween, and the costume parade had just gone through the library: forty-one superheroes, a great many princesses, and one child dressed as a libra…
2017
Jul 3
R. woke me at 3:10 this morning, at the cabin, gray in the face and bent over,…
…with a pain in his right side that he described, when he could describe anything, as a hot bolt. He was sick twice in the yard. I had him in the car by 3:30 and at the emergency room in Woodruff by 3:42.
A kidney stone, four millimeters. I had spent the drive thinking about his heart, and when the doctor said "stone…
Dec 10
Christmas 2017, here. Ellen's four and David's four. Kate is due at the end of…
…January and may not fly.
Sizes:
- Hannah (9): 10-12, shoe 3.
- Owen (6 1/2): 7. Skates size 1.
- Lucas (4): 5.
- Maeve (21 months): 2T.
Lykke: julekake x2, limpa rye x2, one almond kringle. Ordered November 27.
Dec 27
Christmas here, with Ellen's four and David's four: ten in the house. Kate is e…
…ight months along in Portland and not allowed on an airplane; she joined us on the laptop at the end of the table. Maeve is twenty-one months old and calls me "Gamma Pig."
R. and I have, for once, read the same book: "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes." He read it for the engineering and I for the story, and we…
2019
Jun 2
POAs. Mine for health is scanned. Ray's is the same with me first, then Ellen,…
…then David - copy in the grey box.
Money POAs, both - grey box. Each other, then Ellen.
Jul 7
Family week 2019: thirteen, a puppy and a pontoon.
Per Ray, the pontoon rules, posted in the boathouse:
1. The plate says ten people. Ray says eight, plus the dog.
2. Life jackets ON for anyone under 13, and for Theo at all times within sight of water.
3. Nobody rides in front of the rail.
4. The driver is over 16 and has had the motor explained by Ray. So far that is…
Sep 8
Home since Thursday. Church; I had altar guild and set out the green. Pastor Kr…
…istin preached on counting the cost, and R. counted the house instead: 142.
R. fell asleep in his chair this afternoon with the ball game on the radio, which he does not do before the seventh inning. I had to tell him the score.
Sunday calls: Ellen, yes. David, yes, from an airport. Kate sent a photograph of Theo w…
Sep 10
R. is in the hospital. Arbor Bluff, the cardiac floor, room 4117. He is asleep,…
…or pretending, and I have come home for the night because the nurse told me to and because of the dog.
About half past two this afternoon he was raking under the honey locust. I was in the kitchen with the list for Thursday's sorting. I looked out, and the rake was lying on the grass and he was sitting on the back s…
Sep 22
David came for the weekend, Friday night to this afternoon, by himself. He did…
…not say he was coming until he was at the gate in Denver.
He and R. spent most of Saturday afternoon in the shop, not building anything. R. is not to lift more than ten pounds until Friday, so David lifted, and R. told him where to put things.
In the kitchen this morning David asked me, "Is he going to be okay?" He…
Nov 28
All of them came. Ellen's four, David's four, Kate and Samir and Theo: thirteen…
…at the table, here, for Thanksgiving, which has not happened since Kate moved west.
R. carved sitting down. Theo is twenty-two months old and ate only rolls. Lucas, six, asked his grandfather at the table whether he could see the thing in his heart, and R. said no, but that he has a picture of it, and after pie the…
2021
Jul 30
For Ray, August 1 to 21, while I am in Portland. Taped to the refrigerator; a c…
…opy here.
1. Meals: there are 14 suppers in the chest freezer, labelled with the day. The other seven nights are the Nordic Table (once), Marlene's (she has asked for Thursdays), and your own devices.
2. Pills: the box is filled for three weeks. Refills are not due until September.
3. Birdie: 1 1/2 cups at 7 and at…
Nov 25
Thanksgiving, with Ellen's four and all of David's. Maeve is five and reads. Sh…
…e read the place cards aloud, then the label on the cranberry can, then asked for something longer, and I took her up to the shelf in the back bedroom and let her choose. I have decided to send her a book on the first of every month, and told her so, and she wrote it on her hand.
I am on a pill for blood pressure as…
Nov 27
Wi-Fi routers
One in the den, one in the upstairs hall, one in the basement. David set them up over Thanksgiving. Perhaps $150 now.
Nov 28
The wireless: David put in three new boxes on Friday. Where they are:
1. The den, on the shelf by the turntable. This is the one the Fourpoint Fiber line plugs into.
2. The upstairs hall, on the bookcase.
3. The basement, on the shelf over the laundry tub.
A white light is good. A red light means that box has lost the others. Per David: unplug the den one, count to thirty, plug it in a…
2022
Jul 10
FAMILY WEEK 2022, July 2 to 9. All fourteen of us at once, for the first time.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate, Samir, and June (11 months) in the travel crib.
- Back bedroom, the two twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed in the main room: David and Julia.
- The porch, four cots: Hannah (13), Owen (11), Lucas (8), Maeve (6).
- Theo (4): the trundle in his parents' ro…
Dec 21
Christmas 2022, here, because of the knee. All fourteen, in shifts: Ellen's fou…
…r the 22nd to the 24th; David's four the 24th to the 27th; Kate's four the 26th to the 28th.
Sizes:
- Hannah (14): women's small, shoe 8 1/2.
- Owen (11 1/2): 14-16. Skates 6.
- Lucas (9): 10.
- Maeve (6 3/4): 7.
- Theo (nearly 5): 5.
- June (17 months): 2T. Her bed quilt is on the frame and will be late.
Nothing w…
2023
Jul 6
There was a quarrel on the porch last night, after the children were down, and…
…I am up early because of it.
It began with David, who had a spreadsheet. He has added up what this place costs us in a year (the taxes, the insurance, Earl, the propane) and proposed, reasonably, that we rent it out for four or five weeks in August and September through one of the websites and let it pay its own way…
Jul 9
They left yesterday morning, all three cars, with the usual shouting about swim…
…suits left on the line, and everyone hugged everyone. Kate and David stood by his car for ten minutes talking, which I watched from the kitchen window.
R. and I sat on the porch last night and again this morning and have decided three things. I telephoned each of them this afternoon, oldest first, and said the same…
Jul 9
THE CABIN CALENDAR. Decided by Ray and me on the porch on July 8 and 9, 2023, a…
…nd told to all three by telephone this afternoon in the same words. I keep the calendar.
1. The cabin is not rented. Not to strangers, not through a website, not for a week, as long as either of us is alive.
2. The week of the Fourth of July is everyone's, as it has always been.
3. Besides that, each of the three…
Aug 13
Lucas's ten-year quilt: done, and in the post tomorrow for the 21st. No. 49.
Fish. Twenty of them, each a pieced block 12 x 16 inches, swimming in four rows, every other row the opposite way: northerns in greens, walleye in gold and olive, a row of bluegills, and one musky down the left side that is three blocks long. Water is seven different blues. Twin, 68 x 88.
Backing: the trout-stream pr…
2024
Mar 2
The cabin calendar, 2024. All three claimed by March 1.
- Kate (first choice this year): Saturday, August 3 to August 10. Telephoned February 27.
- David (second): June 15 to 22.
- Ellen (third): July 27 to August 3.
- The Fourth, everyone: June 29 to July 6.
Ray and I will be in Madison for David's week and for Ellen's; for Kate's we are asked to stay.
N.B. Ellen's week…
Jul 7
The Fourth, fourteen of us, hot. Two loon chicks this year, both riding.
Hannah set up an easel at the end of the dock on Friday evening and painted until she could not see: the dock itself going out into the water, and the far shore, and the light that comes at about eight. R. looked at it for a long time and asked whether he could buy it. She said it was not for sale, and then that it wa…
Nov 10
Paint, Hawkstone Drive, every room, in one place. I went through the cans on th…
…e basement shelf today with a notebook.
All Benjamin Moore unless it says otherwise. All trim in the house is White Dove, OC-17, semi-gloss.
DOWNSTAIRS
- Living room: Revere Pewter, HC-172, eggshell (2016, Ray)
- Dining room: Monroe Bisque, HC-26, eggshell (2009)
- Kitchen: Hawthorne Yellow, HC-4, pearl (2017, Ray)…
Dec 29
Christmas in Denver, a week, at 5,300 feet, with R. winded on the stairs and de…
…nying it. Lucas is eleven and took his grandfather ice fishing on a reservoir an hour away, with David to drive, and they came back with two trout and a great deal of opinion about Colorado ice. Maeve is eight and has read everything I have sent her, and wanted to know why the girl in last month's book had to give th…
2025
Mar 2
The cabin calendar, 2025. All claimed by March 1.
- David (first choice this year): July 26 to August 2.
- Ellen (second): none. She keeps her turn in the order.
- Kate (third): August 16 to 23.
- The Fourth, everyone: June 28 to July 8.
Hannah has asked, by letter, to live at the cabin from June 21 to about August 10. We have said yes.
2026: Ellen chooses first.
Apr 19
Seventy today.
At four yesterday afternoon Kate was at the back door with a carry-on, and behind her David, and behind him Ellen, grinning like children who have got away with something. Only the three of them. R. had known for a month and had not let on.
I have not had my own three, by themselves, at this table since Kate left for…
Jul 9
Family week 2025. Fourteen, and a bed for every one of them.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (16), Owen (14), Lucas (11), Maeve (9).
- Lake bedroom: us. North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June on the trundle. Back bedroom: Ellen and Mark. Sofa bed: David and Julia. Porch cot: Theo (7), with the dog.
For the record book: Thursday, July 3, about 7:30 in the morning, off the end of the dock…
Dec 14
Christmas 2025, HERE, all fourteen, December 24 to 27.
Beds:
- Ellen and Mark: Ellen's old room. David and Julia: David's. Kate and Samir: the family room, on the sofa bed.
- Hannah: the sewing room, on the trundle.
- Owen and Lucas: air mattresses in the den.
- Maeve, Theo, June: sleeping bags in our room.
Sizes:
- Hannah (17): women's small. A carry-on suitcase.
- Owen…
2026
Jan 25
Maeve's ten-year quilt: bound this afternoon. No. 52.
"Night Sky." Twin, 70 x 90. A navy ground with forty pieced stars in whites, creams and three golds, and stitched in pale thread from star to star, the Big Dipper and Orion as they stood over Denver on the night of March 9, 2016. David worked out the positions.
Backing and binding in plain navy. Quilted by Kathleen L…
Mar 2
The cabin calendar, 2026. Ellen had first choice.
- Ellen: July 18 to 25.
- Kate (second): August 1 to 8.
- David (third): June 13 to 20.
- The Fourth, everyone: July 1 to 8.
All three in by March 1.
2027: Kate chooses first. But 2027 is also the fiftieth, and the week of August 14 to 21 is taken by all of us.
Jul 9
FAMILY WEEK 2026, July 1 to 8. Fourteen people, eight days.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June (5 on the 12th) on the trundle.
- Back bedroom, the twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed: David and Julia.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (17) lower lake side, under the blue quilt; Owen (15) upper lake side, under the green; Lucas (12) and Maeve…
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Facts
| First name | David |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Raymond |
| Last name | Ostrander |
| Company | Kessler Tiede Structural Engineers |
| Job title | Senior Structural Engineer |
| Date of birth | 1982-02-25 |
| Gender | Male |
Phones
- number: '3035550171' variant: Mobile
Emails
- email: david.ostrander@frontrangemail.example variant: Personal - email: dostrander@kesslertiede.example variant: Work
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 4380 Osprey Mesa Way city: Denver state: Colorado postal_code: '80238'
People
Peg OstranderDavid Ostrander is child of Peg Ostrander
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q009 What did Darla charge to quilt Kate's wedding quilt? q024 What happened in September 2019? I'd like the whole month back, in order. q027 Where was I when each of the grandchildren was born? q031 What did we decide about the cabin? q032 Whose turn is it to choose their cabin week first next summer?