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Friday, January 3, 2014

Blizzard!!!

We are in the thick of a huge snow storm right now...It is howling outside .....it's been snowing for over 24 hours but it's so windy we can't tell how much we have....
It brings back to memory the biggest snowstorm of my life...the great blizzard of 1978. I remember it like it was yesterday...here are a few pictures of that great storm...






















This lighthouse is the town just north of us...only a few miles away...





I am a total lover of storms as was my dad.....they are so exciting......we were the only ones who had 4wheel drive in those days so we would be the neighborhood rescue ..in the storm of 1978 we were without power for 8 days...but my dad was prepared as we had wood stoves and gas cooking so we were always warm and fed even if in the dark...mum and dad made it feel fun and adventurous!!
..well...it's still howling here and am told we still have 5 or 6 hours to go...it's very early morning right now still dark and I have several cats piled on me in bed..
Pictures later I hope!!!!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year!!!

This looks remarkably familiar!!!!!
Happy New Year to all you nice people out there!!!!


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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas!!!!

Happy Christmas to all you wonderful people out there....
May your day be full of joy and love with friends and family...
The family of course includes all four legged and feathered members.
Thank you for all the joy ..laughter.and life lessons.you have given me...
My life has been so enriched because of you all...
Heaps of love...miss holly ...mr.richard and the nine feline members
Pilgrim..Kabuki..Gus..Ish...Callie...Izzy..Rusty..Buster and Vinnie






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Sunday, December 1, 2013

December 1st!!!!! Christmas is in the air!!!

 Oh I so so so hope we have Snow......our backyard two winters ago...now this is snow to me....good snow.clumping on the trees...every branch covered
..and I love winter and snow so so so much!!
a felt work....that i've been working on for 2 christmas's  almost done...
christmas past....
pipe-cleaner people !!  So much fun to make!!  a little fabric....pipe cleaners....glue....time for sitting!!
Just a few Christmas and Holiday pictures.....of christmas's past....a dear sweet doggy where we cut our tree...
Decorating starts this week!!  Yahooo!!
Happy December.....

Friday, November 15, 2013

Dear friends.....this was sent to me this morning....author unknown....if anyone knows the author I will credit and also the photographer...
It says it all for me to day....Happy weekend.....:^) =^..^=



A Morning Inspiration

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it.

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good.

Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy.

Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”





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Sunday, October 27, 2013

To all my friends in the storms path....

To all my friends in the U.K......

As my dear old dad always said...." batten down the hatches....and hang to the riggin!!!!"
Hope you are all safe and sound during the storm.....



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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Happy Happy Me!!! It's Autumn!!!!! I love it!!!!

 Is it possible that I have been absent since JULY!!!!    I can not believe it.......
Truth be told....I was totally done in by the HOT HOT HOT summer we had....it just took the wind out of my sails....
I just can not take hot weather anymore.....I feel like I just hung on all summer waiting for fall....
 But I can sure take this!!  It is the most beautiful fall imaginable.....warm days in the sun with the smell of fallen leaves...I just want to smile all day!!  I'm running around sewing....garden....raking...although...I love the leaves so much...I don't really want to rake them up...I just want to walk through them and crunch!!  The smell of fall.....is pure inspiration.....
 This is partridge berry....Isn't it beautiful!!

 We closed our little Adirondack camp last week end....so sweet...and soooo tiny...my incredible grandparents built it in 1928...by themselves!!
 fall sunsets....
 There is nothing I crave more at this time of life than quiet...just sounds of nature...this is a place you can get that....there were times this trip all I could here was the falling leaves onto the deck and the little nuthatches calling....so sweet and heavenly  to me...
 Because of our warm days we are still getting things from the garden!!!   Happy me!!!!! I so love my vegetable garden...It has really become my favorite of all gardens...and all organic!!!   Not one pesticide has been used on our property for almost 60 years!!!
                                            Tomatoes!!
 Look at this fellow.....He was huge and looking right at me!!

 Such an amazing and beautiful creature!!  Unless he wants to eat you........horrors!
                                                The back yard yesterday....a flood tide....
 One of my latest projects....not done ....not sure what I'm going to do with it yet..
I'm working on a wedding present ..took this picture of my beautiful young cousin and thought..hummmmmm this might work into an embroidery...also a project I'm still working on...so far I like it but as always having trouble with the faces....going to work on that today....
 New Yarn from a farmers market in Vermont....the best market I have ever been too!! It's in stowe Vt. I wanted to by everything!!!
 This bag I made from a skein I bought a couple of years ago...still need to line it but I'm using it anyway...it's all a tight single crochet...
 Oh my Gosh.....Have you read this lovely book!!!  It is absolutely a happy and peaceful read...Susan Branch is someone I have loved for years...she has a wonderful blog..www.susanbranch.com/..she lives on Marthas vineyard which is one of my favorite places on earth and I was married there!!!
Well... even if you are from the U.K. you will fall in love with this book..it is a gem....she does all the illustrations herself with watercolors....lovely....
 Yup.....its me...taken in the Mountains walking back to the cabin....I just adore this time of year and every day is and ahhhhhhhhhh sort of day.... I want to do everything....unlike this summer when I wanted to do nothing.....

I'm so happy to be back.........  :)