Greensboro, VT

Larry and Miriam invited us to stay at their Northern VT home for the weekend. We traveled through MA (where we found the below sign ... too scary) to Greensboro, VT to a little peninsula on Caspian Lake. Where we were welcomed by this sign.

This is the sign on that appears on the front porch. Miriam's dad was one of the original home owners - Richard Olmsted.

Here's the front of their summer home.

Leaves were already turning in

Northern VT on September 19th.

Here's their front yard.
Here's Chippy on Golden Pond,

I mean Caspian Lake, eating almonds!

Saw where Larry and Miriam's final resting place will be

(it's so beautiful there!)


Where else can you go out for an early a.m. drive in your golf cart in your pajamas?

Sun bathing Jasmine

Time to put away the kayak for the winter
(notice how Jasmine has to help)


Shell this spider is for YOU!


Larry and Miriam we had a great time!
Thank YOU for sharing your home!

xoxo

Kevin and Tim

KEVIN, Dan, TIM and Shelby

(Cape Cod - maybe 1987'ish)

TIM and KEVIN
(Cape Cod - a few years later)

TIM and KEVIN

Today !

Tim's heading back to AZ ...

"We're gonna miss ya Tim!"

xoxo

more Cypress Knee Spirits

Custom Cypress Knee

Seaside Santawith all of my favorite things ...

Santa with lobster, blue crab, seashells and buoys

starfish, seagull and a sack full of toys



life preserver, beach ball, sand pail and shovel
candy cane and a doll, an old ship's anchor ...

Great Hammock Beach or
Cornfield Point .... hmmmmmm?

down to every last detail,
even the lobster buoys have identification numbers!
(my parent's birth dates)

Do you LOVE him?
He's my 2nd cypress knee spirit creation
and joins BOO (previously featured on 5/5/09 post)

xoxo

Lessons on a Sunday in September

Tim R. came in from AZ to visit with family and friends. Thought we would kick off his visit with a day at Great Hammock Beach. A ride in Roger's boat, a little seafood and maybe a walk on the sandbars. Arrived just in time to seenearly 900 Bikers for Babies

(who raised approximately $60,000 for the March of Dimes)

ahhh, Roger's boat. If any of you have taken a boat ride with Roger you know that 'slow' is not part of what this boat can do. I have begged for a slow boat ride into the sunset. It has been 3 years and it hadn't happened. Be careful what you wish for...
Rog, Kathy, Tim and I set out for Bill's Seafood in the boat. Past the Osprey nest (Roger's Dad built it and it is licensed with the DEP). Looks like somebody was home, the two babies are all grown up now. We headed 10 miles west of Great Hammock Beach at approximately 20 miles per hour (fast enough for Kathy and I). Tim was promised a 'fast' ride after Kathy and I got out of the boat when we returned from lunch. Below we are heading into Pilot's Point Marina channel to get to Bill's. See the boat on the right? Roger thought he was going a tad bit slow so he proceeded to pass him and,
'KA-DUNK'
the strangest noise came from the engine and our boat had no power. Well we were just around the corner from Bill's so we proceeded at 3 miles an hour for lunch!

under the singing bridge with cars traveling over us



Seafood at Bill's

Christopher, these seafood photos are for you!
miss ya cousin!


Kathy treated us to lunch and we talked about our boat.
Thanks for lunch Kathy!

said goodbye to the birds that poop on your boat and wait for folks to toss them french fries

Tim and Rog were in charge of debird-pooping the boat
Thx Tim!

Rog got us back out on the water, swam under the boat to make sure nothing was stuck in the intake grate (nothing there) and we headed for home. Unfortunately we could only travel at 3 miles per hour! We were 10 miles from home!
"the weather started getting rough

the tiny boat was tossed"

(when you go slow the big waves wash over the bow and get in the boat) we needed a plan, we never would have made it back before dark. So we called Brenda on Roger's cell phone (always file a trip plan or carry a cell phone). Brenda gave us Tim's cell phone number who was out fishing for Blue's. He had gotten at least 17 hits by the time we called him and had pulled in at least 5 of them. Rog didn't want him to stop fishing for us and said we would make it.

ROG ARE YOU KIDDING?????

YAY! Tim to the rescue! He saved us!

And check it out ... even as Tim said, "how could he, fishing from the boat Roger's Dad used to own, not rescue his kid?"

a beautiful day for a tow, increased our travel time by 3 times!

and here was the culprit. We sucked up a 4 inch plastic fishing lure into the intake grate just as we passed that other boat in the channel.

Tim and supper!

L'Orange Blue Fish (thx for sharing Tim) It was WAY yummy! moral of the story ...

be careful what you wish for

thank goodness for good friends and family

always carry your cell phone

and you are where you are at all times for a reason, don't pass the slow boat in the channel when you go to Bill's for lunch!

xoxo

LOOK ... it's Ethan and Ashley

well sorta ...

(more E than A)

xoxo

Too darn cute ....

Swiped this picture of Ellen R. from someone's facebook photo album. Maybe Christmas 1959 or 1960 ... Ellen as a Christmas Cowgirl on her pony ... and just a few miles away (well maybe a bunch of miles), Christmas cousins Cowboy Chris and Cowgirl Geralyn (on her Christmas pony)!

TOO DARN CUTE!

Happy Birthday Ellen!

XOXO