Buoy Wash Ashore in Sandwich

Here the US Coast Guard doing a great job getting this buoy that wash ashore over the New Years Day weekend storm from the Cape Cod Canal.

I'll post another picture of Michael hanging from the buoy plus some great pictures of the flooded areas from high tide from the storm this evening.

A day of shpping with great friends

Michael, Robin, Val and myself went out shopping today, we hit Pier 1 in Hyannis, instead of going to Homegoods in the same plaza as Pier 1 we drove over to Falmouth. We find there is a difference between the Homegooods in each town. On the way we stopped at Mashpee Commons in Mashpee, the Pottery Barn there was having a sale. How could we go by without stopping in to see what they had.

Here are a few pictures of Mashpee Commons. There use to be a mall here but the dead mall was torned down maybe 10 - 15 and Mashpee Commons was built. It a nice place to go shopping and dinning at. It's like going to a small village, with sidewalks, on street parking, small shops plus a few stores like Gap and Pottery Barn, plus different restaurants.

It was kind of a rainy snowy day.

Barnstable Harbor New Year's Day Swim

Michael, Valerie and myself went to Barnstable Harbor for the New Year day swim. At least this year the water was in the low forties and the air temperature was at 35. Nice day for a swim don't you think.


Here's the crowd of swimmers and watchers on the beach waiting for the start of the swim

The swimmers running in

Here they are running out.

It was a fun time, there was a DJ playing great music, a vendor selling food and beverages, also the organizers of the swim were selling chances and all proceeds would be going to a charity on the Cape.

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.