During this Lanaya remembrance time, I'm posting this picture taken during the 1980s of the couple at their table during an antique show. After Jim retired as executive director of a large planning agency, they started a business building on Lanaya's longtime interest in antiques, specifically primitives and chocolate molds. "Up a Creek Antiques" operated at the many antique shows organized on the west cast, usually held at fairgrounds or shopping malls. Lanaya was the expert and the director with Jim providing organizational, operational, business and technical support. They traveled over the country purchasing 'stock', especially enjoying the Pennsylvania Amish country. Don't know if it every made any money but it supported their traveling habit, paid their expenses and made a nice tidy tax loss. Both of them enjoyed to travel, especially Jim who just could never sit still. Lanaya's considerable talent in merchandising and display along with her antique knowledge gave them many months and years of enjoyment and a whole set of antiquing friends.
Where are those friends now? Don't know that any of these friendships endured. But, fun at the time. Lanaya enjoyed her time as a businesswoman until her long slide into dementia made it impossible.
I remember once early in my married life agreeing to go with them 'garage-saling' one weekend morning. After two or three, I was done. But they were just getting started. So many garage sales, so little time! Lanaya excelled at finding a primitive treasure buried under old kitchen towels that she could purchase for $3 that she could turn around and sell for $25 at the next antique show.
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