Old Family Pictures

This is a family picture of my Dad's family when he was young. He is the nice looking boy at the end of the right with the time and double breasted suit. Right now, there is only one living...the youngest girl in the bonnet, my Aunt Nancy. Hard to believe that they are gone. My Aunt and Uncles were bigger than life when I was growing up. As a child, we were with them a lot, expecially my three uncles who never married. Those that did marry produced a ton of cousins for us and we were around them alot growing up. Wonderful memories!

Winter Sunrise

Caught the morning sunrise this morning. Don't get to see the sunrise much in the winter but there it was. Cold too...a mere 3 degrees with more snow in the forcast for tonight. BRRRR!! Enjoy the day and be thankful.......

Christmas

Christmas is just one week away. Here are several of my favorite Christmas things around my house.
The Santa is from the collection of my Uncle, Father Don a Catholic Priest. He kept a Christmas tree up in his apartment year round as well as his collection of Santas.
After he died, I selected this Santa from his collection.

The Nativity set is one my parents gave me back in 1976. I have not had it up for years, but decided this year to set it up instead of my large set that I usually set up.

The snowman lamp is a purchase from a craft show many years ago. It still brings a smile to my face every time I unpack it.

My Bird Girl also gets in to picture holding small Christmas trees. An of course, the Christmas tree with all of it's packages. Almost done shopping with just a few items left to wrap.

Merry Christmas!

Catching Up

So I am not sure how a whole year goes buy and I do not post. As you can see my geechee heart has had a great year. I was able to spend three weeks at the beach again this year. There is nothing that makes my heart sing louder than to be at the beach. Life keeps moving faster and faster. A whole year...I must do better.

October? How did that happen?

Goodness! I can not believe it is already them middle of October. Where does time go? It was a beautiful day. Sun was out and it actually made it above 70 degrees. We have not seen that temperature for several weeks or longer. Anyway, I spent the day outside working in the yard. Managed to get all the grasses cut down and odds and ends cleaned up. I brought all the pillows and cushions inside, pulled weeds, pulled wilted annuals, raked and blew up leaves. I also scraped several boards on the fence and repainted them. In addition, I painted the new side window that was replaced on the front door. I am just making myself tired thinking of how much I got done today. It is a good feeling. I think I have about 2 hours of yard work done and then I can call it done for the winter. Let the snow begin!

Spent the last week week of September on the island. Had a great time. The house we stayed in was beautiful. It was a new place for us and I loved it. You can see from the pictures how beautiful it was. Spent the week reading, crabbing, fishing and collecting shells. Even managed to do our annual craft project. Makes my geechee heart sing! I got to spend two weeks on the island this year and another at the beach. Not a bad year!

Last year at this time we were in Italy. We are starting to shop for another Europe trip. We may aim for next spring instead of next fall because of work. I really want to hit Paris this time as well as Venice. We will see how it works out.

Hearts!

Goldendoodles.....

See these dogs? This is the type of dog I want. I have been looking and looking at dogs and the thing is that I do not want one that sheds. I have been there and done that and know I will not do it again. What type of dog is this? It is a minature goldendoodle. Bad thing is that they cost $1800. Crap! I, however, love the looks and color of this animal. I mean, how cute are they? But $1800? I can not believe it. I guess I need to start looking for another kind or just keep saving my quarters to get one!

Alas, the painters have once again failed to showed up! They were suppose to be here on Friday but that was a no show. So I assumed they would be here on Monday. Again, a no show. I am left to guessing games when they will come. I have not heard from the ceremic and carpet place, so I am assuming my order has not arrived yet. I would just like to get things painted before the carpet is laid! Again, how hard do you hound your brothers who also happen to be your painters?

We had a beautiful day today. I was off and spent the day in the convertible running real and imaginary errands. I hated to pull the car into the garage and end the day of running! I am trying to savor these special days before they are gone for the winter. I did take some pictures of things around the front and back yard. I want to save these before they get tossed for the winter. I also planted some "fall" stuff in the pots in the back yard for some color through early and late fall.

Still working on my bathroom and bedroom. Hopefully will have some pictures to post soon.

Have a great week!