Road Trip!

View from "rest stop" of New Hampshire Interstate #87.


Atlantic Ocean, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Freeport Village Inn, Freeport, Maine

LL Bean Retail Store, Freeport, Maine

I just came back from a rushed road trip. I drove Mom down to New Brunswick. On my way back I came home through the States so that I could do some shopping and shopping I did. These are some photos of my stops along the way. Old Orchard Beach is a booming seaside town but is all but closed down. I saw 2 people coming up the beach. All the shops are closed for the season. It was still beautiful. The ocean always seems to call my name, even if it is out of my way. I did some "outlet" shopping in Freeport, Maine. What a lovely little town. I had been there before but don't remember much. I can't wait until I can do this road trip again, only next time I'll have company since Kim retires in 39 days! (Yikes!!!!!)

Sunday Cookies!!!

Well, we have a new Sunday routine. I got my nice new cookie jar at Pier One (gotta love that store) and every Sunday I make cookies. The rule is I only make them on Sunday. If you eat 'em all in one day, that's OK, but there's no more until next week. lol! I've been doing it for a month now. I get my reminder close to Sunday about the empty jar. On Thanksgiving Sunday, I didn't have time to bake because of my road trip, so I bought some at a bakery. Matt opened the jar and says "you cheated!" LOL! You bet I did. Anyway, they sure are being enjoyed. So if you're looking for fresh baked cookies, come visit on a Sunday.

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Goodbye my sweet baby girl!

August 29, 1993 - September 29, 2009

Tonight we had to have our sweet baby girl Jessi put to sleep. We are heartbroken. There really is nothing else for me to say.

Our sweet baby girl is 16

Happy happy Birthday Baby! You are as special to us today as you were 16 years ago when I picked you out.

New Toys

I have some new toys! I finally had to break down and get a new laptop. Mine has been crapping out on and off for the past year. I must have had a dud. The hard drive was having problems here and there. Matt has always been able to fix it and retrieve everything I had on the hard drive. Not this time! Anyway, I ordered up a Dell. They had a "Canada Day" special, so I had to go with Red. I love it.

I also got my new camera. Nothing special about it, except it's a 20x zoom and 10MP which is good enough for me. It's still a "point and shoot", so I won't have any trouble figuring it out. I figure since I like to take so many photos that I would like something nice and new. I'll keep my other little one for who knows what, but I'll have it anyway. I think I better get the manual out though and do some reading though.

I need a name!

My beautiful new KitchenAid Mixer arrived today, thanks to Air Miles. What great service... ordered on Tuesday afternoon and it said would be shipped in 4 weeks. 3 days later it arrives at 0915. I wonder what the UPS man thought of the nightgown! lol! Now I have to cook/bake. Kim will be looking for lots of baked goods now. Oh no ... I can see the scales cringing now. Any good names for her. I will call her the "Silver Bullet" for now. The only problem with her is, if you know me at all, I don't like "stuff" on my counters. She has to stay put and not moved around. Ughhhh!

Yard work!

Kim and I have been very busy with our yard work. It seems there just isn't any time to get it done and then it gets behind. We worked very hard the last couple of weekends and it's starting to come along quite nicely. I haven't planted any plants yet. I'm hoping to get out this week to find a few things anyway. My deck has empty planters on it, so I need to get that done and I would like to at least have a couple of tomato plants. I didn't do a vegetable garden last year but would at least like the tomatoes. We love our split rail fence (we call it the coral, all we need are a couple of horses, lol!) and cobblestones. Kim finds those! Real treasures for sure.....