Good Morning Monday, December 29, 2014

Hello World,

I’m thinking about my 3 day week this morning.  It will be busy but I’ll get through it and then have 4 days off again.  After the first week of January, I’ll be driving to Sarasota for the Quarterly.  It’s a good thing I have those 4 days off so I can get my reports ready for Area, District and Intergroup.

I just saw a reminder on my phone that today is Vanessa and Joe’s Anniversary.  I still miss Vanessa.  Here she is:

Vanessa finally gets a dog!

I’ll need to go find her on FB and wish them a Happy Anniversary.  Be right back!  I sent her this picture:

My 3 Cats on the porch

I love this picture.  It was taken on my front porch “downtown”.  It really gives you a sense of the way they are together.  Big ole Domino, “domineering” Wylie, and sweet little Metaxa!  She’s doing it again this morning – that basket is never going away from my table!:

Too Cute!

I usually go on FB each morning to get some ideas from various posts I see.  These two pictures I “stole” – oops I mean “downloaded”:

This is really paradise!

What a majestic bird!

Now these are beautiful pictures and “Wylie” has them forever.  You never know when they’ll pop up again.  I have a favorite picture of a Naples Beach scene I took years ago that reminds me of this one.  It’s on my “desk top” so I’ll have to get it one day and put them side by side.  I use it as my “screen saver” on my desktop.  It’s one of those pictures that came out of my camera that was just a “fluke”.  Like this one:

Lighthouse on Cape Cod

But I love those pictures.  They “center” me when I’m doing the whirly thing in my head.  I can just look at those pictures and they calm me down.  Especially the light house.  I have another picture I took as a “fluke” from the porch of my little cottage at Chatham, that does the same thing for me.  Let me see if I an find that picture:  be right back.

My little porch in Chatham

I love the way the sun is shown on this porch and the view of the lake in the background.  So many great memories during the time we spent with my cousins in Chatham.  I think the first time I went to Chatham was when I was about 2.  There was an area going down from the cottages through the woods that had a little “pricker bush” with thorns on it and I got stuck on one and couldn’t get loose and I began to cry.  Well, don’t you know all 4 boys (my brothers and my cousins) wouldn’t let me forget that little girly thing – all my life!  Then there was the time that Dick was bitten by a tick (that was a problem up there) and got sick with “Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever” and had to go to the hospital.  One of our fondest memories was picking up the trash.  Mr. Swenson, who owned the place, would get up early in the morning and drive around in his beat up pick up and empty the trash bins that were outside of the cabins.  All 5 of us kids would get up and beg to go to the “dump” with him.  He always took us.  When Bill and Cathy were here and we had dinner at the Dock with Dick (Hickory Dickery Dock), we talked about that – 62 years after it happened!  Now that is FAMILY!  Never forget – like Elephants!

Dick at the Dock

At The Dock

Dick has all kinds of pictures from the “old days”.  One in particular he has which he has promised to send me, is where we are all lined up near the shore line – tallest (David) to shortest (me) in our “matching” white terry cloth beach cover ups.  My mom and my Aunt Peg (mom is in the middle, Aunt Peg is to the right):

Aunt Pat, Mom, Aunt Peg and me

I’ll have to remind him to do that so I can add it to my collection of family pictures on my “family wall of shame”:

My Family Tree

Well, time is up for today.  I’m ready to “Seize the day”!  Have a beautiful day today.  Thanks for visiting!