Vanderlaan Family Photographs from Our Book - "Ancestors Memories and Simple Gifts" - The History of the Vanderlaan Family - and Many Many More Pictures that People Sent Me.

All these Pictures are curved
because I Just Pointed the Camera
at the Book and the Pages are Curved...




Gregory and Martin Vanderlaan


Jill Robin Greg Martin and Prince the Dog Vanderlaan






Justin and Marguerite Vanderlaan Dressed Up For a Ball


Martin and Gregory Vanderlaan
Holding Swimming Medals
at the Oka Road Swim and Racquet Club
in Los Gatos...


Thanksgiving 1951


Marcus Vanderlaan US Army


Vanessa Justin and Patti Vanderlaan

12/25/2021: We had a Family Gathering on ZOOM... Wonderful fun... Totally Safe from COVID-19... Finding out what's popular with children these days... and New Jobs for the 20 somethings... and Old folks re-telling stories... Excellent... These people are precious to me... I was sitting at the dining room table with my housemates and the Care giver in the background serving lunch... and all of the residents waved and said "Hi" to my family... That gave my family a True Idea of My Lifestyle... at an Old Folks home with SIX Residents and One Care giver on duty 24 hours a day..
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Thanksgiving with my Family as a Child. In Los Gatos and Sacramento. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/thanksgiving-with-my-family-as-child-in.html




Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving:Left to Right Standing: Robin's Husband, Robin's Son, My Brother Martin, My Dad Justin. Seated: Cousin Robin, Patti's Mom Bonita, Patti-Martin's Wife, Child, Uncle Marc, Aunt Peg and Mom-Marguerite


Gregory, Vanessa, Nicole and Justin Vanderlaan


Vanderlaan Family Collage for Dad's
90th Birthday Coffee Cup.
Gregory, Marguerite, Justin, Vanessa, Nicole, Martin, Patty, Victoria, Brodie and Patty's Mom, Bonita.

Hi all,
Vanessa and Patti have been working on a hoop skirt, petticoat and supporting hoops for "appropriate attire" for the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace yesterday. It all came together as you can see in the dressing photos.
Marty


Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan


Vanessa Vanderlaan at the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace in San Francisco Modeling a Home Made Hoop Skirt made by Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan

Vanderlaan Family Photographs: Martin, Patti, Nicole, Vanessa, Bonita, Justin, Gregory, Victoria, Beth, Broady, Cadence, Reese, Gary Lea and My Daves Avenue Elementary Class Photo
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/vanderlaan-family-photographs-martin.html


Christmas 1961 Left to right: Martin Vanderlaan, Cousin Patty, Gregory Vanderlaan, Cousin Gary Lea - We Had Family Parties in the Willow Glen district of San Jose. Mom's Family had a Farm there... growing Prunes... Grandma Made Prunes Stuffed With Divinity Fudge (100% Sugar) - Uncle Forrest Made Apricot Liquor by Taking a Mason Jar Filled with pitted Fresh apricots, vodka and rock candy... set it on the shelf for a year to Mellow... They used to give the children a single apricot to eat and That's My First Drink of Alcohol...
FUN! Not So Much Fun Years Later...


Victoria, Gregory
In Cutten, California
Near Eureka...



Picture of Victoria's Sister Beth, Our Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant. 

My Truck and The Magic Bus Kinetic Sculpture


Vanessa
Bay to Breakers Race...


Martin


Daves Ave Elementary School 1965 Mrs Fuller's Class


Nicole


Dog, Patti, Bonita, Vanessa

and Then I Realized I Did Not Have Enough Photographs of Nicole, Brodie, Reese, Cadence or Vanessa... So I Found All of These Pictures on Facebook...







































My Family from My Mom's Side...
In a Crab Restaurant near Baltimore.
My Cousin Dian, her sons Ken and John and
My Brother Martin (on the left)

Writings of Justin Duff Vanderlaan - My Father - How the Airplane got to Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos California...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/writings-of-justin-duff-vanderlaan-my.html

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/06/taking-my-parents-to-iran-contra.html

Dad's 90th Birthday Party in Los Gatos, California - Justin Duff Vanderlaan Family Photographs

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/dads-90th-birthday-party-in-los-gatos.html

Self Hypnosis Animated GIF Designed to Automatically Cause a Trance... Like the Lightshow at the Fillmore West... gvan42

 

QUIT SMOKING

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My Gift to the World: A Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends. Color with Felt Pens or Pencils... ALL FOR FUN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

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POP QUIZ for Alice in Wonderland Fans. What is the Red Queen Screaming? ---and--- Leader of the "White Rabbits" Terrorist Group Found Guilty of Bombing. White Supremacist Organization Shut Down.

 

Write Your Answer in the Comments Section

HEADLINE: Illinois 'White Rabbit' white supremacy group shut down by federal authorities.

The group calls itself the White Rabbit Militia. From their hideaway south of metro Chicago, White Rabbit militiamen were stockpiling an arsenal of automatic weapons, bombs, and bullets, preparing for a violent revolution against the federal government according to newly filed court documents. U.S. law enforcement describes the rural Illinois-based group as a "paramilitary terrorist organization" targeting anyone they didn't like or disagreed with.

Michael Hari is the accused leader of the White Rabbits according to federal agents. The 49-year-old is from downstate Clarence and is charged with leading a posse of heavily armed central Illinois militiamen to a Minnesota mosque.

https://abc7chicago.com/white-rabbit-militia-supremacy-domestic-terrorism-supremacists/6679524/

HEADLINE: Federal Jury Convicts Illinois Man For Bombing The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center.

Today, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against MICHAEL HARI, 49, for his role in the bombing of the Dar al-Farooq (“DAF”) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 5, 2017.  https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-convicts-illinois-man-bombing-dar-al-farooq-islamic-center

Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
QUIZ: What's her name?

3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
"As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
this side was made for you and me"
QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
 END OF TOP TEN LIST
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answers to quiz:
1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
Oh...
Done groun' it all in molazzis,
Better git yo' overcoat ready,
Well, it's comin' up a norther.
Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
Oh...
Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
Oh...

5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

"Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie

l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
by Bob Seidemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 

QUID PRO QUO? mICK mULVANEY sAYS fRUE AND tALSE... bOTH... aT tHE sAME tIME! GO ASK ALICE about this Orwellian Nightmare... Because You Can't Believe a Word mICK Says! It Could be SQUID PRO QUO!

1984 is Real and Happening Now!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 2019, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking.^[4] Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia. 

mICK mULVANEY brashly admits Squid Pro Quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge -- and then denies doing so... 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/mick-mulvaney-quid-pro-quo-donald-trump-ukraine-aid/index.html

Do Doctor Drugs Make People Sick? Sometimes YES. Question IF The Prescriptions are Doing Harm, Doing Nothing or Doing Good IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CASE.

Of Course, It is Very Difficult to Tell when Your Prescriptions are For Psychiatric Problems... In My Case LITHIUM did Harm... My Friend says LITHIUM Helped Him. Everyone is Different. 

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics Sticker FOR SALE!

They might be helpful to some patients... but we will never really know because psychedelics are illegal. What's up with that?

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics Sticker
by gregvan

When I Was "Whacked Out of My Mind on Psych Meds" I Was in No Position To Accurately Evaluate Their Supposed Benefit. By LUCK, I Moved to a Different Town, The Prescriptions Ran Out and I Couldn't Find a Doctor to Refill them... AND MY HEALTH IMPROVED GREATLY. 

THINK FOR YOURSELF AND QUESTION AUTHORITY. 

Remember: 400,000 Dead Oxycontin Patients. Their Doctors Prescribed the Medicine (Poison) that Killed Them. This is a Truly Difficult Drug Because... OF Course... "It Works!" It DOES Relieve Pain... I Know... I Bought some Opium at a Grateful Dead Concert and When Smoked, I Became the Cheshire Cat from the Alice in Wonderland Book. No PAIN AT ALL... 

MANY People I Know are in Better Health Because They Stopped Taking Doctor Drugs.

On a Related Subject. If Your Doctor Refers You to a Specialist for Tests... They Might be Totally Unneeded Tests... In my case, My Doctor Recommended an Eye Test "Because I'm Diabetic" ... Well, I Declined because... MY EYESIGHT IS FINE... and... I'm Not a Diabetic... I'm Borderline and have been borderline for over a decade... I Test my Blood Sugar every day and every day the results are in the GREEN ZONE... I Might Become Diabetic IN THE FUTURE but Right Now... In My Humble Opinion.. The Trip to the Eye Doctor is BOGUS... I did go to the FOOT DOCTOR "because I'm Diabetic" and that was a really short visit... Just In, Doctor said NO PROBLEM and Out... Could it be a referral just to get More Money from Medicare? A Way to Increase Profit? A Flim-Flam? and the part that is Really Important is that BY VISITING THAT WAITING ROOM, I EXPOSED MYSELF TO OTHER PATIENTS THAT COULD HAVE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. Something to Think About... My Believing the Doctor's Lies Put Me In Danger... 

https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-08-2010/toxic-drugs-when-medicine-makes-you-sick.html

Infinity Sign Made of Spheres

Infinite Rainbow Coffee Mug for sale.

Magic Art with an Infinity Sign floating over a psychedelic design by gvan42

Infinite Rainbow Coffee Mug
by gregvan