Lazy Saturday

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Snow is falling again!  I enjoying putting college basketball on the TV and hearing it in the background on winter Saturdays.  Syracuse better stop the skid today!!!  Send me a picture of what you do on a lazy Saturday.  The "cow poop" is drying up!

Taken this A.M.---N & B stopped over to deliver some apples from the local apple truck.  They sell "seconds" that people buy to feed the deer.  We finally saw some deer tracks and are going to give it a whirl.  She also bought some Spys and Cortlands to split with me, for baking. 

I love her hat.  I must get one.  Who in our family had the longest, blondest pig tails----MOI!!

She  does look rather cute, tho.  This hat was part of her "sister" Christmas gift.

Food For Thought

"The best things in life are nearest:  Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.  Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

Robert Louis Stevenson

T & J with friends on a winter cruise to warmer climes. They are back home now, rested and refreshed.

Who is this person?  Who do you think it is?  My guess: 

the abominable snowman!

Timmy and Kerry are putting their new Kitchen Aid mixer to the test---bread.  It looks deeeelish!

Our son Steve's back yard---taken the morning of the big storm on 1/27.  Even Princeton University closed!

   Carol's grandson, Noah, makes one cool snowman (maybe grammy helped?)!

This is a beautiful picture!  I'm not sure where it was taken. Brett spends lots of time in the great outdoors, hiking with "Ronin."

Hey, what's goin' on here!!!

Have a great weekend!

Another Sisters' Day Out

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We sisters planned an afternoon around Aunt Theresa.  She enjoys getting out, and now that she no longer drives we are more than happy to go see her.  Yesterday we took her into Corning for lunch.  She sported her new "do" (instead of the scarf she often wears as a result of the chemo).  We always have a wonderful time with her and are thankful for these special moments.  After lunch, we returned to her apartment for a short visit. 
Not a whole lot to report.  We are all trying our best to stay warm in this brutally cold winter.  You need to E-mail me about what's happening in your neck of the woods!

                                    Nancy, Patty and Theresa pose beneath one of Sister's art works (below)

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CAROL'S 60th!

Dinner at the Olive Garden with most of the family (Jennifer was sick) and then back to Rebecca's for dessert and gifts. 

Auntie Rebecca with Noah.

Noelle with the newest grandchild, born shortly before Christmas to Steve and Karen.

(I forgot her name already!)

Jennifer composed a humorous poem of family memories (which Steve read), providing lots of laughs for everyone.

Make a wish!

The party's over, and what makes a 3-year-old happier than getting to take home some of the cool party decorations!

Food for Thought

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."

             Michael Cibenko

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Cindy's home cookin'

Mary Ann stayed over night with me the day of the sisters' outing.  I made a homemade lemon meringue pie for us to enjoy while watching the antics on American Idol. 

                           The next morning I cooked up a hot breakfast---is there no end to the nice things that I do for others:)
                       And a shout out to Carol B. for the jar of seedless raspberry jam she bestowed upon me, which she made last summer from berries she picked.  I used it in cookies and also (above) at breakfast.                              

___________Meanwhile, down south . . .________

"Carlie" gets some TLC.

"Chip" says:   "Do you think that my lounging on these plaid P.J.'s makes me look fat?"

Kerry enjoys a movie on her laptop while Pi Man watches the NFL playoffs.  Nancy and I are trying to talk Kerry into taking the JEOPARDY online test.  We KNOW she could make it onto the show!

   More pics soon.

Until then, send me your family news and photos!

Blessings to you all from redneck country.

Snow Days

C O W     P O O P

It's been one cold winter!  Not much  news from the kinfolk these days.  Nancy, Patty, Mary Ann, Cathy and I are going to take Aunt Theresa to lunch on 1/26.  We are very  much looking forward to spending some time with her.  Nancy is scheduled for another scan the first week in March, so let's pray for her that all will be well!  Please send my family news and photos any time.

Ye Olde Snowshoes have a new look!

Mary Ann and Linwood go for their first nature hike with their new snowshoes.

Mary Ann had a great time and highly recommends these shoes.

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"Waaahhh----I'm COLD!!!!!!"  (our grandson)

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Carol's' grandson takes his first sled ride.

   Steve takes Noah to Jennifer's country home for sledding.  Katie shows him how it's done.

"Ronin" Pays Us A Visit (when we are not home).

Nancy drove over to our place when we were gone at Christmastime, just to check on things.  Brett had never seen our home, so he came along with his dog, "Ronin," and took a short hike on our property.

They find the little

cabin in the woods.

 Somebody looks a bit tired!

Pleasant thought!

Lacey's work of art.

BRRRRR . . .

Mary Ann's and Cathy's homes blanketed in snow.

Think WARM!

Jeff took a late November vacation to the Maldives and Qatar.  He went scuba diving several times, and a professional photographer took a few pictures on one of those dives.

The Moray eel has to be one of the ugliest, scariest creatures ever!

. . . Back to reality

Outside snowy and cold  . . .

Lacey makes fruit tarts to enjoy on a wintry weekend.

Of course for the southerners in the family this is all very irrelevant!

Snow---what snow?!

Dianne sent me these pictures a while back.  Davey, her son, and Jeff, her husband are hamming it up as Little Harpo and Harpo before the opening curtain of the vaudeville-themed play,

The Sunshine Boys.

Dianne directed this production for the Penfield Players last November.  Congrats to Davey, Jeff, and Dianne who all won awards from the Theatre Association of NYS for this production!

That's it for now!