Pete Geiger has leg procedure

Former BJ staff Pete Geiger for the third time had some veins in his legs collapsed so that the remaining veins can provide better circulation. Geiger, once the BJ religion writer, has been doing a Penny for Your Thoughts column for folks in his St. Augustine, Florida neighborhood. He also did another column for the St. Augustine paper, which lost its columnist.

Pete and wife Sandy moved to St. Augustine in 2007. They had round trip tickets to return to Mongolia, where they were for 13 years doing church and English teaching work, but Sandy's quintuple bypass open-heart surgery scubbed the return plans.

They have a daughter-in-law who is from Mongolia.

Pete and Sandy have their 50th wedding anniversary coming up this summer. For their 49th anniversary in June 2010 they visited Ireland, looking up the native environs of Pete's maternal grandmother, Florence McCullough, who emigrated from Armagh to Philadelphia at age 12 with her parents in 1898.

They're still discussing how to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

Click on the headline to see photos of the Geigers in Ireland and Mongolia.