Hello lovely friends......

 well...it has been to long..I have  lots of pictures of a very busy summer...I am not a rush around person at all...and we have had lots this summer..all fun though and with people we love..but now we are moving in to quieter times...I made this little flowerpot in high school..just for nasturtiums...I had a veg and flower garden starting at about age 15 .  I love nasturtiums....

 we had pickle day here at 66 seaview...I love dill pickles and this is the most wonderful recipe. Mr. Wolks Polish dills....I made 22 jars!!!!!

 Yummmmm..makes my mouth water to just look at the pictures...I don't process them in a hot water bath..Just put them in the fridge..and they will last up to a year...we just ate last years last jar and they tasted like we just made them!!!

 I will write out the recipe if anyone is interested...really easy

 This is a picture of one of my dearest friends on earth.. and yes that is me..  Fiffy is 100 years old!!!  I took her to lunch with a friend and she downed a huge brandy alexander and a pastrami sandwich!!!!  She is Italian and taught me all the fine points of Italian cooking ....homemade pasta ..ravioli ...stuffed red peppers..bread ..cookies galore...at holiday time she would bake for days ...10 kinds of cookies....she is one of the greatest people I have ever known.....I love you Fiffy!!!

 She lives on Cape Cod now.  She used to live in East Boston and was born in the North End of Boston which is our Italian neighborhood in Boston .  On Easter sunday in 1911!!
This picture is of a Ferry boat from woods hole to Martha's Vineyard...a beautiful island where I was married!!

 Then up to the Adirondack Mts in Upstate New York.. We went with dear friends and their two little boys.

 Someone very cosy on the couch...

 Making s'mores over the fire

 Sitting on  the dock on the lake

 one of 10,000 sunset pics we have!!!

 Myself with the two little guys at " The Big Rock "  A huge rock way out that we all swim to and hang out on...

 sitting on the big rock!!

 The cabin was built by my grandmother and grandfather in 1926..it is just a tiny 3 room cabin..nearly unchanged ..the cabin on the left my uncle built when he was 14..  1934  I believe..it has bunkbeds and two cots..not much room for anything else!! we built a deck and then added a dock we remove each fall.

 Garden!!!  lots of everything at this time of year....we really have to eat tomatoes 3  times a day!!

 My favorite summer salad...cucumbers, red onions..tomatoes..and oil and vinegar dressing.....I usually add toasted bread rubbed with garlic!!!..yummmmmmm

 we have two new kitties...no pics yet...one of my dearest friends had to move back to New Zealand after many years here and she had had her kitties for 13 years....I had to take them for her..it just broke my heart to think of what it would be like to have to give up a beloved family member...so now we have 8!!!!

 these are the present family members ..Ish

 her mother Callie

 Gus our baby boy...(very bold sometimes!)

 Buster bear....Ish's son

 Izzy  Ish's daughter....she is not a beauty queen but is the dearest....

hmmmmm seems I forgot Rusty!  I am going to try to add a pic..but it may end up at the top not bottom of this post....  Hey !! I did it ...Here is Rusty...Number 3 child of Ish!!!!

So that is a little catch up!!  I got some wonderful new fabric....( I so needed it .... )  and I have lots of projects planned..  next post!!!.Lots of Hugs and Happy thoughts to you all out there!!!!  Thanks to all the nice people who have commented and added as followers...I'm up to 30!!!!  so so so cool!!

There's no place like home........

I am sososososososososososo glad to be HOME!!!!

 We were in the south of France which was wonderful..then home, clean, mow, wash clothes, pack again and to the Adirondack Mts.  and now............Home..... Home.. I am so so happy to be home...and home is where my heart is......  a new oilcloth from France!!  we bought it in a open air market.. Love the poppies!!  some new yarn... also from France...I'm trying out different ideas....yes another project....

 My yard.....yea!!  My little pool...that I love because I do not do well in the heat ......and this cures it!! The day we left for the Mts. was the hottest day we have ever had here....100+

 The porch....where I am going to live for a few days!!!!

 This is a little fuzzy but...Look at the color!!!!   it takes my breath away it is so beautiful!! squash  flowers...

 The normal time for us to pick first tomatoes is the first of August...I start my plants in march and put them out as big plants and I have been picking my first around July 4th.....but not this year ....I was late ..then we were away so...I just picked the first three!!   I do have some really big fellas getting ready...is there anything  more wonderful that the first tomato sandwich!!!!!  soft white bread ..mayo....and fresh ground pepper!!! yummmmmmm!!!

 I found this lovely thing in a shop in corde sur ciel... it is a hand painted cloth lampshade....poppies!!

 This is a seashell cosmos..surrounded by flowering cilantro!!  wouldn't you like to just sit inside the little cups!!

My kitties........ I so missed them....these two have never hugged like this before......so sweet and soft....grandmother and granddaughter..... yea!! I'm home!!!!!

More pictures from France!!

How could anything be more beautiful!!

My very very very happy husband..this is a dream come true for him to see the tour de france!!

It was so so so so amazing to see these powerful men ride!!

apres la course!!

What can you say about this....

I love love love this country!!

It's cool!! it's cool! it's cool! bonjour!!

a few pictures for you all from corde sur ciel france!  this is walking up to our house!

 one of the many views from the top!

 View as we walk up......so beautiful...

 two of our party in front of where we are staying....built in the 1200's

 One of many  many many kitties in this heavenly spot....

 the colors are so sweet....

 view from my bedroom window....

 the top of the village ..many fine dining spots..

 the view form where we dined...

 a heavenly little corner.....I see an embroidery.......

 walking about town...

 looks like i posted this twice but when I last did this i deleted the whole post so enjoy it twice!!

My darling husband in town.... more later!!   the tour de france comes through our town today...my husbands dream to see this!!!

Hello to home!!

I've been trying to email home but I don 't think anyone is getting them or theirs are not getting to me! So hello all...right now all I can say is .....it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!! Tooooooooooooo hooooot foooooor meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Not a good time to be here.....beautiful for sure but really hot!!! No fans...no cool anywhere..........

France!

Bonjour to all my lovely friends!! We arrived in France yesterday ...took a second plane to Toulouse and are now in the land of sunflowers!!!! We are staying in a medeval town of corde sur ciel...just beautiful! Hope to have pics later!!

July 4th weekend!!!******** !!!!!!!**********!!!!!!********

 The first raspberries are starting to ripen!!!  Jam...mmmmm...when I was a little girl mum would make usually one batch of jam..maybe 5 jars.... and it was like gold in our house..special occasions only.....each jar saved until we could hardly stand it!!....but one day each summer she would open a jar...with a fresh loaf of bread...... and lots of sweet butter..... she would let us eat raspberry jam toast all day long...it was heaven on earth...big pieces of butter melting and mixing with the jam... the jam spread right to the edges of the bread.... I can still taste it......

 The american pillar rose...it always blooms for the 4th!

 the vegetable garden...

 The american pillar on the garden entryway arbor....

 A new crochet project...I think it will probably hold yarn...!!  I am going to line it I think..  I am having so much fun playing with stitches....

 Have you all heard or seen the new magazine  " Molly Makes"  it is Fantastic..it is a british publication but I down loaded it on my Ipad....couldn't find it in the states.......Yet! ... anyway it is full of ideas and quite a few bloggers have shown up in the first two issues!!  attic24, comfortstitching...posy gets cosy, just a few who I've been following... This little embroidery is my version of one of the embroideries shown....I used a small piece of flour sack material for the flower pot...this is a very different style of embroidery for me but it is really really fun!  Charlotte Lyons is the designer who did the piece in Molly Makes....check out her site she is really talented!!  www.charlottelyons.com/  ( still can't figure out how to hyperlink...... : (

 I'm really loving the red and aqua color scheme....

O.k.  so what is this ?????  a pink kitty foot....this makes me just want to put my full face right in the pink tummy of my little Rusty.......  =^..^=