Getting Together
Spoke with a friend who was not sure her son would make it for the holiday. She signed
up instead to help serve food for the needy. For those who have like circumstances, why not?
It is important to be with folks on holidays.
I am so fortunate that Sharon's family is so supportive. I hope I can be the same to them. I
will go off-Cape for a get-together tomorrow. Now I'm heading for the kitchen to bake a
mince pie (comes already seasoned in the jar) plus Pillsbury roll-em-out pastry. How can you
go wrong?
Photo is a little off-season. Artist painting at one of our Summer Shows at the
Taylor-Bray Farm. Other photos of the farm in Yarmouth Port, MA can be seen on
Outdoor Shows. Lamb herding, etc. Good-for-the-soul stuff.
[I tried to put Outdoor Shows on as a link, but when I tested it, clicking on the link
threw me into the blog, driveyoucrazy, which is up for sale. Perhaps the blogger put s
pelling similar to mine to make the sale????
Am having a lot of problems with the links, so please be kind enough to scroll down or
select from Entries.]
11/23/07 Footnote: The pie was a huge success. Hard to bollix up something like that.
I almost did, due to my "skip reading", as I call it; I missed the 10 min./425 degree
part and had to go back at the end to heat things up. The angel I wear on my
shoulder does wonders.
11/15/07:
Yesterday, The Yarmouth Art Guild had its annual Christmas Party at the
Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth. Over 100 of our members joined in for
a nice lunch and Yankee swap. Our Guild donated to the Center and learned that
matching funds will be coming in well into the New Year...an extremely generous couple
in Bass River realize the importance of keeping a good thing going. Thanks, too, to
the selfless volunteers that help daily.
12/17/07:
I can not get together with friends as often as I would like. Most all of the old
crowd has gone South. Air travel (specifically the used air circulated) makes me
too ill to function, let alone have a good time. Just heard from I. in Florida. She
introduced me to Sharon in the last century. Never had a bad word for anyone,
Sharon.
We talked about experiences through "the Connection", as I. calls it.
Years ago, before I met either of these wonderful people, I started to fall asleep
at about 11:00 o'clock one night. face came toward me through my hazy half-sleep.
It slowly came closer, sort of floating, with a pleasant expression, just looking at me.
It resembled the mother of a friend. I spoke with the friend about this and she told
me her aunt had died that night a little after 11:00 P.M. Her aunt, whom I never
even heard of, resembled my friend's mother. Over the years, I have had several
other "Connection" experiences. Go figure.
To get back to Sharon. While I was watching Deal or No Deal, as I told I. in Florida,
a young service woman was calling out numbers. Without any thought on my part,
three numbers came into my head...every one just before the number called out by
the contestant. All correct. Just three, not the whole enchilada. I told I. that I
suspected Sharon, who had a wonderful sense of humor, was just pulling my chain.
"It's the Connection," Said I. in Florida.
1/30/08: Was sending a few photos of animals I had printed from the computer.
My old friend in North Carolina has a computer which was set up by a professional,
husband of a good friend. She refuses to get on the internet although we have told
her how much she is missing. Too bad. Though she is older than I, she still has a
brain that sponges up unbelievable knowledge. As I was writing a note to enclose
with the photos, I was printing something entirely unrelated. My printer has been
balky lately, spitting out blanks or extra copies I do not ask for, but this time, it
printed the entry about Sharon and Kelsy, "Sort-of Unconditional Love." I swear! I
had, to that point, never asked for a print-out of anything written on this blog.
My friend is, like Sharon was, a lover of animals, to the point of having picked up
an injured swan from the highway when she lived on Long Island. Naturally, I
enclosed the two pages from Drive You Crazy.
3/24/08: Spent Easter afternoon with friends in Bridgewater. Good mix of young and
old. Good conversation was had by all. Thanks, folks.
up instead to help serve food for the needy. For those who have like circumstances, why not?
It is important to be with folks on holidays.
I am so fortunate that Sharon's family is so supportive. I hope I can be the same to them. I
will go off-Cape for a get-together tomorrow. Now I'm heading for the kitchen to bake a
mince pie (comes already seasoned in the jar) plus Pillsbury roll-em-out pastry. How can you
go wrong?
Photo is a little off-season. Artist painting at one of our Summer Shows at the
Taylor-Bray Farm. Other photos of the farm in Yarmouth Port, MA can be seen on
Outdoor Shows. Lamb herding, etc. Good-for-the-soul stuff.
[I tried to put Outdoor Shows on as a link, but when I tested it, clicking on the link
threw me into the blog, driveyoucrazy, which is up for sale. Perhaps the blogger put s
pelling similar to mine to make the sale????
Am having a lot of problems with the links, so please be kind enough to scroll down or
select from Entries.]
11/23/07 Footnote: The pie was a huge success. Hard to bollix up something like that.
I almost did, due to my "skip reading", as I call it; I missed the 10 min./425 degree
part and had to go back at the end to heat things up. The angel I wear on my
shoulder does wonders.
11/15/07:
Yesterday, The Yarmouth Art Guild had its annual Christmas Party at the
Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth. Over 100 of our members joined in for
a nice lunch and Yankee swap. Our Guild donated to the Center and learned that
matching funds will be coming in well into the New Year...an extremely generous couple
in Bass River realize the importance of keeping a good thing going. Thanks, too, to
the selfless volunteers that help daily.
12/17/07:
I can not get together with friends as often as I would like. Most all of the old
crowd has gone South. Air travel (specifically the used air circulated) makes me
too ill to function, let alone have a good time. Just heard from I. in Florida. She
introduced me to Sharon in the last century. Never had a bad word for anyone,
Sharon.
We talked about experiences through "the Connection", as I. calls it.
Years ago, before I met either of these wonderful people, I started to fall asleep
at about 11:00 o'clock one night. face came toward me through my hazy half-sleep.
It slowly came closer, sort of floating, with a pleasant expression, just looking at me.
It resembled the mother of a friend. I spoke with the friend about this and she told
me her aunt had died that night a little after 11:00 P.M. Her aunt, whom I never
even heard of, resembled my friend's mother. Over the years, I have had several
other "Connection" experiences. Go figure.
To get back to Sharon. While I was watching Deal or No Deal, as I told I. in Florida,
a young service woman was calling out numbers. Without any thought on my part,
three numbers came into my head...every one just before the number called out by
the contestant. All correct. Just three, not the whole enchilada. I told I. that I
suspected Sharon, who had a wonderful sense of humor, was just pulling my chain.
"It's the Connection," Said I. in Florida.
1/30/08: Was sending a few photos of animals I had printed from the computer.
My old friend in North Carolina has a computer which was set up by a professional,
husband of a good friend. She refuses to get on the internet although we have told
her how much she is missing. Too bad. Though she is older than I, she still has a
brain that sponges up unbelievable knowledge. As I was writing a note to enclose
with the photos, I was printing something entirely unrelated. My printer has been
balky lately, spitting out blanks or extra copies I do not ask for, but this time, it
printed the entry about Sharon and Kelsy, "Sort-of Unconditional Love." I swear! I
had, to that point, never asked for a print-out of anything written on this blog.
My friend is, like Sharon was, a lover of animals, to the point of having picked up
an injured swan from the highway when she lived on Long Island. Naturally, I
enclosed the two pages from Drive You Crazy.
3/24/08: Spent Easter afternoon with friends in Bridgewater. Good mix of young and
old. Good conversation was had by all. Thanks, folks.
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