Merry Chirstmas

Hope everyone that celebrate Christmas has a Merry one and everyone else has a great day!!


I copied this photo of a card from Kenneth in the 212.

Merry Christmas Everyone

This picture was in Bostonist and loved it, so thought I'd post it as my Holiday picture.

The title is " lights on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts."
This Christmas will be a hard one for me and my family, my Mother made Christmas for family and everyone she knew. Not one person left her house with out a small gift of some sort, she always had things wrapped and set to go just in case.
Michael and I are going to stop by my Dad's tonight to drop off the last of his gifts and take him out for dinner.
Jimmy, Dottie and Beth and their families will stop by on Christmas day and have dinner with him.
Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Where does the time go.

It seems like it has been forever since I wrote in here.
Went to NYC over Columbus Weekend and had a great time. Love that city and what it has to offer. Will add that information later, with what we saw, the places we ate and things we did.




This is a picture of my parents house I did for them last year.

Tomorrow is Halloween, I didn't decorate my Dad's house for the holiday. Dad didn't want anything done this year, still to soon after my Mom's death This was one of my Mom's favorite holidays since it was inclusive of everyone and was fun.

If your going out tomorrow night be good and be safe.

Who the hell designed this ride

I read, See My Briefs http://cscfon.blogspot.com/, where I saw this post and thought I'd post it here.
Now I know why he never wore pants.

Labor Day Weekend up in Maine

Michael's brother Lee was flying in to Bangor, Maine, for this Labor Day Weekend, to visit his brother Paul and sister Janis and we drove up there to see him, plus a friend of Michael's family died, wake would be on Friday. We left work and drove four hours to Bangor, Maine. At times traffic was heavy, mainly at the Hampton, NH toll booths. Glad it was a sunny day, the whole weekend was sunny, Michael drove the 1996 Camaro Red Convertible, the day using the convertible will be getting fewer as Autumn come rolling in with a huge burst of color. The it's time to leave the car in the garage for the next six or seven months until it gets warm up here. Glad we have the other car and truck to get around in. My face is sun burnt from riding everyday with the top down, NICE!!!!!

Here's a picture of the four of them, Lee, Paul, Janis and Michael, in front of Janis's house.

Janis and her boyfriend, Dennis, laid a new walk way to the front stairs using flag stones and increasing the size of her front garden. I think the walkway came out great, very nice garden this year due to a lot of compost from Dennis's yard.

Here a picture of the main drag in Ellsworth, it's a small city but fun to walk through with different kinds of shops and one great kitchen store, the Rooster Brothers, the store for cooks. One of the best I've been to.

Michael and I stayed at the new Hilton Garden Inn in Bangor, the place was nice and only has been opened for a week. Michael was ill Friday night and most of Saturday, So I'm glad a booked a hotel with a pool, that's where I spent most of my time, going between the pool and hot tub.
Besides getting to Ellsworth, great little City with fun shops, walk through downtown Bangor, they keep adding non chain restaurants and walk through the U of Maine art museum right there in downtown. Michael and I had dinner at Fiddlehead restaurant in Bangor, a must if your in Bangor. Food was outstanding, waitstaff as nice and helpful as can be, full bar and everything was reasonably priced, compared to prices on the Cape or in Boston and never mind NYC. It was nice to get away but always nice to come home.

NYC in October

I've been busy planning our trip to NYC in October.
Friday night at 10:00 booked "My First Time" at the New World Stage on West 50th Street. I like this theater, it where we saw "Naked Boys Singing" & "Alter Boys" both worth a take.

Saturday Evening at 8:00, "The Neil Simon Play, Brighton Beach Memoirs" at the Nederland Theater, and the last night in the city on

Sunday at 10:30 "Diane Schuur" at the Blue Note on West 3rd Street.