video tour of potential house

We are interested in buying the house across the street. The house is 3br, 2ba, 1450 sqft built in the 1950s in an Eichler-ish style.

Map of house location: 2068 Laurelei Ave, San Jose, CA 95128

Here is a video tour

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Clip from the home movies, showing Noel's 8th birthday party. This party took place on May 31, 1949. The baby is PJ.

Castleman Home Movies - Digitized

There are a huge number of 8mm movies taken by various Castleman family members from the late 1940s to the 70s.

These movies (2 1/2 hours worth) have previously been put onto VHS tapes. But the tapes have limited circulation within the family and they kind of look awful.

So I got hold of the originals and had them digitized frame-by-frame (2200 feet worth). The result is a VERY high quality digitization which I plan on editing, adding narration, possible interview and packaging into a 2 DVD set to send out to every single living family member who might be interested.

I recently accomplished this task, all be it on a smaller scale with the Adams home movies and the response I received was overwhelming.

I will keep you informed for new development and video samples.

Family on Facebook

A number of us in the Adams-Castleman Family have recently joined Facebook.

If you are there too, try looking up Noel, Rachel, Chris, Wendy, David, etc.

(I deleted the link that was here, since this is a public forum)

Fairy Tea 2008

Fairies ran amuck on our lawn May 17th! We had an extremely good time, The Fairies started to arrive at twilight time, as fairies often do. After a sweet prayer they enjoyed some cakes and tea before fluttering about the yard. Although they were quite fast we managed to get a few photos, enjoy!

The delights of old family movies...

(this is Wendy) -- About 10 years ago, someone in the Castleman clan took our old 8mm family movies and had them put onto VHS. It was wonderful for seeing family long gone and making them come alive in our memories and hearts.

Recently, Annie Adams sent David (Adam) a bunch of old reels they had on the Adams side of the family. Like ours, they had pretty much not been seen in forever. Adam took them in and had them restored and transferred to DVD. What a delight! He's in the midst of a project to add audio and upload some to the internet.

Here's a "teaser clip":

Conner Jiu Jitsu competition news

Hi all,

Conner competed yesterday in the Charles Gracie Invitational tournament in Tracy (300+ competitors). This was the first competition of any kind for Conner (unlike Kendall who was doing 3-4 sports at this age Conner has been more reserved). He has been doing Gracie (Brazilian) Jiu Jitsu for a few months now and really enjoying himself...and doing very well by all accounts, the instructors are all very impressed by him.

Conner's first match was against a slightly more experienced kid (one belt higher) and Conner completely dominated him for a big win on points. His second fight was against the boy who won his division, again a more experienced (two belts up) and older and larger. Conner did very well avoiding numerous submission attempts surviving to the end of the match, eventually loosing on points. Conner ended up in 3rd place winning a bronze medal (picture attached).

--Proud Daddy...Chris :-)