Aint it kind of funny how time slips away ♫♫

 

My, where does the time go?  Busy, Busy!  I have been working part time and enjoying that.  I am so busy with church activities, gardening in the nice weather and now 'tis winter in full swing!  Here are some photos to bring you up to date since my last post. While playing basketball with my boy friend John and his neice and nephew, I broke my finger.  But I actually have improved my bone density from doing this (weight bearing exercise) and no longer take meds for my bones!  Hurray!

 

 

John and I planted a little raised garden between our houses on his side of the hedge that yielded onions, carrots, leaf lettuce, and kale.  It was great fun and John's first garden.

 

Below is my backyard flower garden with antique hand plow.

 

 

 

We spent many days and evenings at OYC on the lake and had another wonderful summer of swimming, sailing, listening to bands, friends and awesome sunsets....





Above, my pumpkin vine with a blossom as large as a dinner platter!

 

And then the most beautiful carpet of yellow Autumn leaves I have ever seen in the backyard...



And then came the snow....



 
And it was time to trim the little tree again with all my handmade ornaments of  yore.  A Santa from a flame bulb, a vintage card print in plastic packaging and below a cute little Caroler I painted on a Cat's Paw Shell.

I love them all and they bring back so many memories of Christmas past. 

May you have a most blessed New Year and thanks for coming.  Ya'll come back soon!

My heart to yours

 

BEAUTY IN WINTER...

Winter here in Central NYS can be brutal but beautiful!  I went to my cousin's house on Saturday to visit.  She lives at the other end of Owasco Lake in Moravia.  It is a 14 mile drive along the West side of the lake and a beautiful view all the way!  Saturday, there were ice fishermen on the lake in tents and portable enclosures.

The lake was totally frozen over and the surface was like a giant mirror.  As I drove along I could see men pulling rather large fish up from an ice hole here and there.  Note the buds on the tree branch.

Further up the lakeside there are gullies and woods where my hubby once hunted deer as a youth and the many waterfalls were completely frozen in silent motion.

I rolled down the window to take this one and you can see the flakes of snow coming down.  It would only have been better had a deer or two crossed the path...
There is always something beautiful to see no matter what the weather.  I enjoy that trip any time that I go.  Many good memories of swimming in summer and hiking in winter on beautiful Owasco Lake, Auburn, NY.

Thank you for coming today and do leave a comment for me as I treasure them! ♥

My heart to yours...

Nothing like a 50th H.S. Reunion!

  What a wonderful week we had spending 6 days on the Lake in our hometown of Auburn, NY!  (for Owasco Lake pictures go to our Kerrie's Korner, SC site at  http://kerrieskorner.blogspot.com/ thanks!)
   We left SC on Tuesday.  We made a bed in the backseat for my hubby so he could lie down while I drove.  We had 856 miles to go.  We stayed over near Carlyle, PA and were pleased with how far we got the first day.  The next day we arrived at Owasco Lake, Auburn, NY about 2:00 p.m. where our dearest old friends met us and showed us around the Lake house that their daughter owns.  They generously offered it to us for the week of the High School reunion we were attending on Saturday the 31st.  It was my 50th!  Where had all the years gone?  Once together, we were all teens again and much giggling and laughing went on.  Everyone looked wonderful for our ages and more came to this one with spouses than at the 45th one!  Hubby was able to last the 3 hours and took pictures of all of the attendees for me to treasure.  I will make a scrapbook just of this reunion and our stay at the beautiful Lake House on Owasco Lake.  When we were dating, this was our romantic spot on the opposite shore.

Trying to get a bunch of Senior teens together for a class picture was like trying to round up a bunch of wild Indians!  So much laughing and visiting was going on that it took several tries to get even one picture where you could see everyone-it was a hoot!  Everyone had so much fun and all the years melted away.  We were all just kids again.

This was my friend Diana whom I met in Kindergarden.

Another friend is Sue who also has been my friend since Kindergarden!

This is a picture of my hubby and his sister Nancy who I met in tenth grade.  Nancy invited me home for supper.  I rode home with her on the school bus.  I met her brother when I walked in the front door and it was love at first sight!And the rest is 50 yrs (52 counting the school years) of love and happiness!!

And this is my great friend, Anna.  We met when we were 12 and started high school together in the fall of 1955.  We raised our kids together and have been close and loving friends for all these years.  I treasure Anna and her husband.  Their daughter is the owner of the Lake house.  And we will always be grateful to them all for giving us such a wonderful memory....

Thanks to all our friends and family who made our visit so wonderful.  Our Son and his family and several friends and relatives came to visit.  It was wonderful for us both.  We will probably not be able to make the trip again with Bill's health so precarious but we will always have these precious memories, just like the song....

Thanks for visiting as always and please visit my other blogs.  Links are in the sidebar.

♥Kerrie