Another day--another outing!

It was a gorgeous day and the eight of us (that's Mitch, Pam, Marie, Keith, Ken, Faye, Joe, and me) decided to find Mitch's elusive soft shell crab and Ken and Faye knew just the place--Reedville, a small harbor town on the Chesapeake (or some river that flows into the Chesapeake).









The soft shell crab sandwich was to die for and Mitch was very happy.

Notice the little legs sticking out of that sandwich--deep fried soft shell crab to perfection!









And of course after the hour trip home, we needed dessert and the TT store serves up a one scoop cone that is hard to beat.

Actually this was two scoops (birthday cake and chocolate donut) and since the cone cracked, Brenda put it into a second cone.

Chesapeake TT--One Day at a Time

So much goes on here and we are terribly busy for "old, retired" folks. The internet service still isn't wonderful so I'm waiting for days when we don't do anything to catch up on some of what we are up to!

Mitch needed a haircut badly and Marie was planning on trimming Keith's so she said she do Mitch's too--and we didn't even have to drive anywhere!!






Of course Mitch had to look good for the pickleball "Happy Hour". Everyone (and there were 22 of us) brought a favorite appetizer and
their own chairs and drinks and we sat between Ken and Faye's and our coach and enjoyed the late afternoon. Good friends and great food!!

Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails, Virginia

We are here at Thousand Trails and it is so nice to just sit still for awhile. We washed the coach and the car and then it rained...oh well. The rainbow was absolutely gorgeous--a great reminder of all God promises!


We found some new friends, Pam and Joe, and have been playing pickleball.


Besides the new friends, Ken and Faye showed up, and then Keith and Marie showed up! What fun to be all together!







So Faye said we needed to play Frisbee golf on the new course that she was instrumental in getting started. Here we are, me and Mitch, Pam, Keith, and Ken. We actually did a lot of laughing and had a really good time.









Keith (Chef R) and Mitch decided to cook seafood one night rather than going out. What a feast--we had clams and shrimp for appetizers, then went on to poached salmon in a wonderful sauce that Keith made while Mitch was cooking his blackened mahi mahi. We ended up having Keith's homemade kalua and cream for dessert.

PS: We also found out that five of us in our kitchen didn't hurt the broth at all!!

God answers prayers

I don't mean to be facetious in telling this story, I know God answers prayers, but I just had to tell this story after hearing that Tiger Woods received a check for $10,000,000 this week.

I loved putting Addy to bed this summer, partly because Sarah has done a beautiful job of making bedtimes prayers a habit. Anyway, we had gotten to the God blesses, and had done all the regular--family, friends, and then Addy says "God bless Tiger Woods". That took me by surprise, how does she even know Tiger Woods, and I had to do the silent chuckle...obviously, God heard her prayer.

The deal is this, another time we were saying prayers and got to the God blesses, and had done all the family and friends and Addy says "...and the little vaccum (not vacuum--vaccum), and the fiffer vaccum (Swiffer vacuum which she sees at least three times a day), and the biggie vac, and the shop vac, (she does have this thing about vacuum cleaners), and Gramma's biggie vac!"

Now I wonder what's in store for my vacuum cleaner!!

You've got to love those babies!!!

Good-bye to New Hampshire

We had talked about sitting on a mountain top in New England watching the leaves turn on the first day of school of the year we retired. Well, it's four years later and we missed the first day of school, but we have totally enjoyed watching the colors of a New England fall. We've enjoyed some gorgeous colors in Oregon and New Mexico, but the reds and burgundies here are abundant and beautiful! We might even have to come back sometime!!!

Let's have sushi

As long as the internet is working good, I'll keep right on posting.

Caryn said she resized the sushi and Brayden loved it!

New York revisited!

Some friends sent this shot of Mitch chatting with the "Naked Cowgirl", who with the "Naked Cowboy" have some corner action in NYC. You just don't see this in Elk River!!