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Three Great Kids

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Recently Tut and I took three great kids to lunch in Yarmouth. It was great fun to listen to Hannah, Chris and Heather chat. They are all involved in different things which makes for interesting conversation. Chris and Heather will soon be finishing their first year of college and Hannah will be a senior in high school. Sam was supposed to join us but he was practicing with the varsity lacrosse team and couldn't make it. We had a great dinner and I loved the pizza.

Knitting Is Fun

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Yesterday I went to my knitting group which was started a few years ago. We meet every two weeks or try to anyway. We started with my aunt, Christine, my cousin ,Ellen and myself. We sometimes bring our knitting and knit, sometimes bring our knitting and don't knit, and sometimes don't bring our knitting at all.
My sister Ann joined us a couple of years age and she fits right in cause she follows the rules,knit, bring bag and don't bring bag.

Sometimes my Uncle Billy visits with us but he tries mostly to stay away. We also have had drop-ins who come to see our latest projects. Thanks goodness they are all relatives who know we don't accomplish much.

Then comes the fun part, snacks. Coffee for Christine and I, water for Ann and tea for Ellen. We always have dessert and then knitting is over for the day.

I had good news in Boston and want to thank everyone who thought of me. This trip has been blogged many times so I don't want to bore you. Besides I don't like writing about this subject so I'll leave that to my kids.

Trees of the Past

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Today as I was looking through the Christmas pictures I decided to get together some tree pictures. We had some horrendous ones but when they were decorated we loved them all. The first is Suz with all the unbreakable ornaments on the tree just before it fell on her.This was a 1970 version taken in Mapleton, Me.

Then the picture of the Charlie Brown tree of 1975 which had gaps and was crooked.The kids got out their new Christmas crayons and color books and colored under the tree (except Mike who hated the feel of crayons). This one was on Tracy St.

 

Then we had the trees covered with tinsel and garland which I loved, with still a piece missing near the top. We went to Butlers Greenhouse and each picked out a decoration. WE still used homemade decorations mostly. This was in l984.

The one in 1989 was on Riverside Drive and was one of the prettiest and the others got better each year but Mike says a couple of them were as fat as they were tall. Such as 2001 and 2002. Anyway we loved them all and laugh at the Charlie Brown trees now.

Then we moved back to Augusta and had trees that were guarded by Malachi Murphy. This was taken in 2005.

All in all we had some pretty terrific trees in the eyes of the kids and because of that in our eyes too. We look back at them and see how ugly some of them were and laugh.

Fezziwig

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This is Fezziwig from "A Christmas Carol". The Fezziwigs always seemed to be having a good time as they danced. As I read this with my fifth graders it was one of my favorite parts of the story.
Anyway, Tut made it because I mentioned I would like to make a snowman on day but the snow wasn't sticky enough. On a day that it was sticky as I took a nap, he made one. He has much more of an imagination than I do so I held things as he decorated. Anyway I loved it.

Then the following  show the snow in Maine before the big storm we expect on Friday .

I know Grant and Daryl can't wait to get here!!!!

Wedding Fun

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This past week-end I attended a very special wedding. The festivities began on Thursday and lasted until Monday. First a friend of Suz,' Kate,came to her apartment and they figured out how the tables were going to be set. Kate was responsible for setting up for the reception. Then we went to a Pedicure, forget it, but I did manage to have a manicure, not fun. On Friday the Maine relatives arrived and we had a rehearsal and then Daryl had pizza for us all.

Sarah and Jim stayed up half the nite to bake for Jim's brunch celebrating Suz and Grant with some of his friends. The food was great. From there we went to an open house at Suz' and Grant's apartment and it was nice to all of their friends. Of course there was a 2 year old boy there whom I was accused of corrupting. 

We went to the Jubilee Singers concert which was fantastic. It was their 30 year anniversary and the church was filled.

On Sunday Jim, Sarah and I attended my favorite Catholic church in DC. It is a black church and this Sunday was children's Sunday which I loved. The kids were on the altar as a choir and did a great job.

Then came the wedding---it was the most meaningful ceremony I have ever attended. Shana did a fabulous job in her homily and related the whole thing to Grant & Suz. Jim did a reading also following the ideals of Grant & Suz. It is great to see people really follow their ideals--although I tease them a lot.

At the reception the food was good and I even was able to dance which was great. I think everyone had a fun time and I even danced with Johnny whom I probably hadn't seen since he called from Whippers and asked for a ride home.  It was good to see Dana and Robin and meet Dana's boyfriend. These are all high school friends of Suz. There was an 11 day old baby boy whom attended and  with his mothers even lit a candle. I got to hold him as much as I wanted.

On Monday everyone headed for Maine and I Stayed until Tuesday. On Monday nite I slept 13 hours --I wonder why??

This is one of my favorite photos.

 

Our Stories

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On Sundays after Mass I usually meet friends at Betty's for coffee. They  are Pat Folsom,whom I taught fifth grade with at Gilbert School and Betty Linscott and she taught first grade at Gilbert and swears that after that they don't learn anything. The other person is Lil Huntington who taught fourth grade with me at Farrington.
Well on this particular morning I told them about Suz and her story that she and Grant were writing about their engagement. When I got done we all looked at each other and then laughed because of this new idea and  couldn't think of our own stories and then Pat said Brooks, her granddaughter, just got engaged and told us the story of that. Lil mentioned something abut a justice of the peace but I think she was kidding. I just sort of got married and then Betty came up with the best story---she told Joe that if they didn't get married she was going to Japan to teach. It worked.
Anyway on Sunday we try to solve all the world's problems and have a lot of fun trying.

Game Night

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This past week I had many visitors including my sisters, Maureen (Moe) and Ann. We looked at a photo album that Maureen found somewhere and found pictures that were funny. I think the one we are laughing at is of me. 
Ann is four and a half years younger than I and I have many memories of her growing up. She always told me what she got me for Christmas which I thought was a riot. She is the crier and will cry at anything, like if I stubbed my toe she would take care of the crying.
Maureen was born when I was in the 7th grade so I loved taking her places if my mother would dress her in a certain dress. Then we would go to Fitzpatrick's house, Jane was a friend of mine, and she would go for the candy dish. Also Moe would pose for me in any way I asked.
We had a game night on Saturday where we played quarters and Balderdash and had a fun time. Quarters was mindless and Balderdash was too much thinking and Maureen won. Oh well.

Chris ,Sarah and Heather, Chris' girlfriend, also were there and that made it much more fun.  Heather is a great girl and most likely the cutest kid on the Colby campus. We know that Sarah has UMO locked up and Chris has Thomas.  It is nice to have cute grandchildren.

THE DORM

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Today I went to visit Chris' dorm room and it was my first trip since I got out of the hospital.Granted it was only Waterville but it felt good to get out and most of the time was without oxygen. Anyway his room which he shares with JT, a friend of many years, is typical I suppose of any dorm room with a white rug which was wanted very much and even though he was told it wouldn't last long as white--I think he finally agrees but seems happy with it anyway. He is studying hard and after Jim checked a couple of his notes we were all satisfied that he is doing a good job.

The room is decorated well as you can see although I like the pictures of Heather and Chris that were scattered around the room. Anyway I had a nice day and Chris is the cutest kid on campus.

A Trip on Saturday

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Hi everyone, I haven't written anything lately but have not been in a good place.

On Saturday Tut and I went on an all day trip to Schoodic Point and then to Camden. I know Tut hates crowds so I think it was to get my mind off me. I love walking on the rocks at Schoodic and it was beautiful there. A lot of people we on the rocks and Murph was getting compliments from fans.

Then we went to Camden and saw the tall ships and if you know anything about Camden in the summer you can imagine how Route 1 was.  We also watched kids run on lobster traps in the water.

 

The little kids had no trouble but the more you weighed the more trouble. I found myself hoping someone would fall . It was time to go home but I do like watching kids as they are so unaffected and don't care who's watching.

All in all it was a good day.