Peg Ostrander
Kate
child of Margaret
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born Nov 17, 1985 · 40 on Oct 5, 2026
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70 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Mar 4
Pick up the CR-V at Monona Bay Honda
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…
Jun 22
Pearl drop earrings
Bought June 2, 2015, at Hartwig & Daughters for $340, to wear with Mom's pearls at Kate's wedding. Not appraised.
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…
Feb 22
Mom's pearls
Single strand, 18 inches, 7 mm pearls, about 1955. Restrung in 2015 before Kate's wedding. Inherited in 2014. Safe deposit box.
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…
Dec 14
Christmas 2014, here. Everyone but Kate.
Sizes: Hannah (6) size 7, shoe 12. Owen (3 1/2) 4T. Lucas (16 months) 18-24 months.
Hannah: ice skates, the first three Ramona books.
Owen: more track for the train, a conductor's cap.
Julekake: telephone Judy for the amount of cardamom.
Dec 26
Christmas here, everyone but Kate, who was with Samir's people in Michigan and…
…comes at New Year's. I made the gravy Mom's way.
R. gave me a photograph, framed. Walt found it among the farm pictures: Mom at about thirty on the porch steps with a dishpan of peas in her lap, squinting at whoever held the camera. I had never seen it. I had to go and stand in the pantry for a minute.
I have been…
2015
Feb 15
Fabric for Kate and Samir's wedding quilt
Feb 15
Wedding quilt for Kate and Samir: Storm at Sea. 30 large blocks, five by six, t…
…o finish about 86 x 98.
Fabric pulled and counted today:
- 9 blues, dark to mid (navy through slate)
- 5 greens (the sea-glass ones from Stitchery Lane, 1/2 yard each)
Mar 3
Airfare to Portland, two tickets, for the wedding
Out June 17, home the 22nd. · Airfare to Portland, two tickets, for the wedding
May 2
Dress for Kate's wedding
May 21
Long-arm quilting, Kate and Samir's wedding quilt
Darla, at Stitchery Lane. A wave pattern, edge to edge, 86 x 98. · Long-arm quilting, Kate and Samir's wedding quilt
May 25
Storm at Sea, for Kate and Samir: finished. No. 35. 86 x 98. Back from Darla on…
…Thursday (quilted in a wave pattern, edge to edge, $185).
Label: "For Kate and Samir, June 20, 2015, from Mom. No. 35."
Shipping it to Portland on Thursday by UPS, insured for $800, to Samir's office.
May 28
UPS to Portland - the wedding quilt
Insured for $800, to Samir's office. · UPS to Portland - the wedding quilt
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…
Jun 21
Kate was married yesterday, in a garden in Portland, under a pergola that Samir…
…designed and built himself the week before. She kept her name and walked in alone, having informed her father in March that she was not property to be handed over. R. walked her as far as the gate, by negotiation.
I wore Mom's pearls, restrung in April for the purpose, with new earrings to go with them. Kate fastene…
Jun 24
Kate and Samir, June 20, 2015, Portland.
- 72 guests, in the garden of friends of theirs in Sellwood. Ceremony at 4:00.
- She is keeping her name. Mail to Kate Ostrander and Samir Khoury, not to Mr. and Mrs. anybody.
- I wore Mom's pearls and the new pearl drop earrings (Hartwig's, June 2, $340.00). Kate wore my grandmother's locket as her something old.
Th…
Dec 6
Christmas 2015: sizes and the list.
- Hannah (7): size 8, shoe 13 1/2. The first two Penderwicks books.
- Owen (4 1/2): size 5. Wants "a real hammer."
- Lucas (2): 3T. The wooden garage with the ramp.
- Kate and Samir: a cheque toward the bookshelves.
- Ellen and Mark: the big enamel roaster.
2016
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
Apr 19
Sixty-two today, and spent it weeding. I would rather do it myself than leave i…
…t to my successor, who will not know which ones are loved by one child every six years.
I withdrew 214 volumes. I kept one back for myself, with the district's blessing: our oldest copy of "Charlotte's Web," rebound twice, with due-date stamps going back to 1988 and somebody's breakfast on page 40.
R. took me to th…
Jul 8
Home last night. Twelve of us at the cabin this year. The stone passed on Wedne…
…sday, during the fireworks, and R. came out of the bathroom holding the strainer.
Next year there will be thirteen. Kate told us on the dock on Thursday evening: the end of January.
The CR-V had four new tires put on at Gary's this morning.
Dec 5
Parcel to Portland
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…
2018
Jan 31
Theodore Sami Khoury, born last night in Portland, January 30, at 9:41 their ti…
…me, which was nineteen minutes to midnight here. Seven pounds nine. Sami is for Samir's grandfather.
We were at home, in bed, with the suitcases for Gulf Shores standing open on the floor. The telephone rang on R.'s side and he answered it in the dark the way he answered it through thirty years of bridge emergencies…
Mar 12
Portland, the sixth day of seven. Theo is six weeks old, long, bald and very al…
…ert.
Kate is tired. She does not want advice and I have given almost none; I have done laundry, made soup, and walked the baby around the block in the drizzle so that she could sleep. On Friday she came downstairs, found the kitchen clean and the baby asleep on my chest, and cried, and said it was hormones, and I sa…
Jul 8
Family week 2018, practical. Thirteen, with Theo (five months).
- Sleeping: Kate, Samir and the baby had the north bedroom; David's four went to the tent and the sofa bed between them. It will not do for another year. The shed question is open again.
- Loons: two hatched, one left by the Fourth. Nobody saw what happened.
- Gus cannot do the steps to the lake. For next year: a ramp…
Oct 22
Gus died this afternoon, a little after four, on the kitchen floor, on his own…
…blanket. He was thirteen years and two months old.
Dr. Aylward came to the house as she said she would, with a bag and a young assistant, and knelt down on the linoleum in her good slacks. She examined him properly and said what we knew. Then she explained what she would do and what we would see, in order.
R. sat o…
2019
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…
2020
May 10
Mother's Day. All three called. Kate held Theo up to the screen and he licked i…
…t.
We have been at the cabin a week and mean to stay until the leaves are down. Everything came up in two vehicles: the sourdough, the Bernina, R.'s pills for ninety days, the dog, forty pounds of flour.
Jim Hrdlicka did not come for the opener, the first one he has missed since we bought the place. R. fished it wi…
Nov 26
Thanksgiving for two. A turkey breast, one pie, the good plates anyway. Three c…
…alls on the laptop between noon and four, a time zone apiece.
Theo is nearly three and wanted to know why Grandpa was in the computer. Kate said Grandpa was at his house. Theo said, "Then why is he small?"
After the last one R. closed the lid and we sat.
Dec 6
Christmas 2020: everything by mail. Three boxes, posted December 5.
To Naperville:
- Hannah (12): women's small. A proper journal, bound, and a good pen.
- Owen (9 1/2): 12. A puck bag, and "The Hobbit."
To Denver:
- Lucas (7): 8. Fly-tying kit, beginner's, chosen by Ray.
- Maeve (4 3/4): 5. Three picture books and a library card holder.
To Portland:
- Theo (nearly 3): 3T. Wooden tr…
2021
Jun 27
The porch is finished. Nate swept it out on Friday afternoon, handed R. the las…
…t of the screen spline "for when a grandchild puts an elbow through it," and drove away.
We have eaten supper out there both nights since, and stayed until we could not see each other. The whole lake, and not one mosquito.
Samir drew it so that the roof line carries on from the cabin's, and the posts are set so tha…
Jul 10
Family week 2021, July 3 to 9. Ten of us; Kate stayed in Portland.
The porch sleeps four on cots. Loons: the one chick, half grown.
Julia looked at Ray's right knee and told him to see someone.
Jul 12
Juniper Margaret Khoury, born this morning in Portland at 4:12 their time. Six…
…pounds fourteen. They will call her June.
We came home from the family week on Friday (ten of us this year; Kate could hardly have come), and at half past six this morning I was upstairs at the Bernina, sewing the binding on this child's quilt, which I had sworn would be finished before she was. The telephone was on…
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…
Aug 15
Portland, the end of the second week. It was 103 degrees on Thursday, and the s…
…ky is the color of weak tea from the fires. We have lived in the basement with two fans and a baby in a diaper.
June is five weeks old, dark, unhurried, and sleeps with her fists up by her ears. Theo is three and a half. He has been very good about her and very bad about everything else, and I am the one with time t…
Aug 23
Portland, August 1 to 21: what to remember.
THEO AND NUTS. He was tested in the winter. Tree nuts: walnut and pecan are the bad ones, and Kate keeps all tree nuts out of the house to be safe. Peanuts are fine; he eats peanut butter daily. What that means for me:
- No walnuts or pecans in anything I bake for a gathering he is at. That is the banana bread, the sa…
Dec 27
Kindle
Christmas 2021 from Kate and Samir, so I have no price. I still prefer paper.
Dec 28
A quiet Christmas. Dr. Aumann retires at the end of the month. He has looked in…
…to my mouth since 1987. A young woman is taking the practice and keeping Trish.
From Kate and Samir, a Kindle. It weighs nothing, and I will take it on airplanes. I still prefer paper.
The two best things I read this year. "Cloud Cuckoo Land" has a librarian in it who is eighty-six and puts on a play with five chil…
2022
Jan 12
We have it. R. tested on Saturday, two days after coffee hour, and I on Tuesday…
…, after three days of sleeping in Kate's room with the door shut.
He has the cough and the aches and is on the antiviral, five days, by Dr. Raghavan's order, because of the heart and the sugar; one of his other pills is stopped while he takes it. I have a throat like a rasp and a fever that arrives at four in the af…
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…
Oct 30
RAY'S KNEE: getting the house and ourselves ready. Surgery is Tuesday, November…
…8; check in at 5:45 in the morning. From the class on the 18th, the booklet, and Julia on the telephone.
THE HOUSE
- He sleeps in our own bed; the stairs are allowed. One step at a time, good leg up first, new leg down first. I sleep in Kate's old room for the first weeks.
- Rugs: every loose one is rolled up and in…
Nov 13
Four days home. The walker, the ice machine, the stockings, and the chart of ex…
…ercises that Julia wrote out for him in August, taped to the refrigerator, with boxes to tick. He does every one, gray in the face, counting aloud.
I am driving, lifting, fetching, and sleeping in Kate's room so as not to jostle the leg. I have less patience than he had with the wrist.
The pain is worse than he was…
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…
Dec 30
Maeve's books, 2023. Twelve more.
Jan. - "Pippi Longstocking"
Feb. - "The Tale of Despereaux"
March - "Half Magic"
April - "The Borrowers"
May - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"
June - "Because of Winn-Dixie"
July - "The Cricket in Times Square"
Aug. - "Matilda"
Sept. - "The Trumpet of the Swan"
Oct. - "Ella Enchanted"
Nov. - "The Lion, the Witch an…
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…
May 26
The cabin has real internet as of yesterday. A white dish the size of a pizza b…
…ox on the gable of the boathouse, and a little box in the main room with one light. R. put it up himself on the extension ladder, with me holding the foot of it and Arnie giving advice from a lawn chair. R. says it is for the cameras and the weather.
Theo and June appeared on the screen this morning from Portland, i…
Dec 15
Christmas 2024, in Denver. We fly out the 21st and home the 28th. Birdie goes t…
…o Naperville on the 20th; Hannah has the feeding card.
Sizes:
- Hannah (16): women's small. Paints, the good ones, from the shop Kate recommended.
- Owen (13 1/2): men's medium.
- Lucas (11): 12-14. An ice-fishing rod.
- Maeve (8 3/4): 10. December's book. Ray is building her a bookcase, cherry, to be delivered in t…
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…
Nov 12
For Kate's fortieth: a pair of good garden shears and a book, shipped
Dec 9
Kate wants to know what her grandmother put on roses.
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
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…
Sep 27
Kate's birthday - telephone at 7 our time
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Facts
| First name | Katherine |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Louise |
| Last name | Ostrander |
| Nickname | Kate |
| Company | Fernwood Museum of Craft |
| Job title | Exhibit Designer |
| Date of birth | 1985-11-17 |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Kept her name. Text first. |
Phones
- number: '5035550136' variant: Mobile
Emails
- email: kate.ostrander@rosecitymail.example variant: Personal
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 3619 SE Tindall Street city: Portland state: Oregon postal_code: '97202'
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q009 What did Darla charge to quilt Kate's wedding quilt? 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?