Category: Family & Friends

I promised you all more pictures from this past weekends Family Party. So here they are, in a short montage. These are my family, my loved ones. All special to me in their own ways.

Family Party June 2010 from Dackel Princess Maribeth on Vimeo.

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My drive home was so much less stressful and I made it in 3 hours and 50 minutes! A personal best. I didn’t speed (too much), and until I got near the speedway, the traffic was light, but I am still shaking my head about the man who wanted to drive 30 miles an hour in a 65 mile an hour zone! Why, by all that is good, do people do this? Thankfully I was driving my car (a Cadillac), with a big powerful engine, and eventually I was able to fly by him! Thank you General Motors!

I slept for an hour and a half after lunch, cuddling with my dackels. They are all so happy to see their Mommy. Fritz said hello, and then was off with Hubby. My feelings would be hurt, but I know, he is Hubby’s dog!

I plan an early bedtime, and hopefully a good long night’s sleep!

Happy Monday, Everyone!

Oh yes, and Happy Birthday, Mom!

Sometimes you have one of those wonderful fun days when family gets together, and you talk up a storm, and eat some good foods, and make memories.

Today was one of those days.

One of our cousins was unable to come at the last moment, as well as another cousin, due to illness, and although we missed them and wished they could have joined us, we still enjoyed each other and the perfect day that we had.

I was able to swim in my sister’s pool with her grandchildren, and this gave me a real special thrill! I love children and playing around and joking around was so much fun!

Here I am with my grandniece, Abby.

My grand nephew, Taft.

My grand nephew Luke, making his shirt blow up like an airbag!

My beautiful cousin, looking happier than she has in so long. That just made my day!

Dave and Janet.

I will do a longer post tomorrow, but for now, gentle reader, I need to kick back and put up my feet. After all, tomorrow I drive 4 + hours back home to Hubby and the fur kids!

I started Saturday saying good-bye to my dearest Uschi, and her husband, Volker!

The trip home was definitely eventful. I got a good seat out of Berlin, and I reconnected with a pretty  woman who works as the security check person at the Berlin Airport. She was working again and remembered Anneliese and me from last year. Anyway I chatted with her while I waited and then was boarded before most of the other passengers onto the flight in Business Class. This was great because I had a chance to settle Anneliese before the other passengers came on board.

I settled into my seat,  and once we were airborne, I put my feet up and used pillows to prop them up more, so that they could rest. It did not do much good, as my feet and legs swelled more and more and by the time I reached JFK in New York I could hardly walk.

I made it through Customs okay, (they did spend a lot of time going through Anneliese’s documents, I think because her coloring stated her as: wild-boar!) and then I tried to get to the earlier flight to Boston but missed it by 5 minutes!

I called Hubby and we were busy trying to decide what to do, when I learned that my regular flight from JFK (set to depart at 7 pm) to Boston was delayed due to a mechanical problem. So we decided I should take a taxi cab to LaGuadia Airport across town and fly up on the shuttle. So, off I went to get a cab.

Luckily I got a good cab driver this time, and I made it over to the other airport quickly. Anneliese and I checked in and also got good seats up to Boston. The weather was rainy and the flight a bit bumpy, but we arrived 2 hours earlier than I would have with the JFK flight. When we landed I asked if the JFK flight was still delayed. They told me then that the flight had been canceled! How lucky I was to go over to LaGuadia and get the shuttle flight to Boston!

Hubby picked us up in the cold rain and brought us home. Oh how wonderful it is to be home.

We arrived home about 9:45 pm and we had a light supper. Emily arrived for the night and we visited with her until 11 PM and then we all went to bed. I slept well, although I woke with painful feet and had to walk around the bedroom a while and use the heating pad on my feet for a while. But mostly I slept well, and didn’t fully wake until 5:45 this morning, so I think I am getting on schedule.

My garden did pretty well in my absence, but I will need to do some work on it tomorrow. My pea plants need to have string, strung and I want to plant some extra squash in the garden as a few plants are not thriving the way I’d like.

Emily left us at 11 AM Sunday morning.

The rest of the day I caught up on the laundry and cooked a few meals for Hubby. It was a nice, relaxing day. A very good recovery day!

Have a great Monday Everyone!

You all know I am crazy about Lobster. I’ve written about this several times. Today my friend Dave, who is my cousin Janet’s boyfriend, brought Lobster and Steamers (clams) to my home. I’d made potato salad and gotten the corn on the cob, and butter and we set about preparing the meal.

While we waited for the water to come to a boil to cook everything, we kind of played around with the lobsters.

Here is a close up of my Lobster “before”!

Here I am juggling them! (Not really)

One got rather amorous with me!

Yes, it was love at first sight!

Even the dackels wanted to check them out!

After a while the water boiled and fighting back tears, I plunged them into the water and put the lid on tightly. Before we knew it, everything was done and our luncheon feast was ready!

And here is my lobster! He cooked up very prettily, don’t you think?

We ate outside on the patio and the day was just perfect for that!

After eating, we cleaned up and headed into town. Today was a Crafts Festival in our downtown area, and we wanted to check it all out. I live about a 10 minute walk from the center of town, so we walked off all the lobster and clams that we had been eating.

There were a lot of Craft Booths set up and many people were out looking, but I didn’t see a lot of people buying. About the most popular booth was the Kettle Popcorn Booth that also sold Lemon-aid! Janet and I split a lemon-aid and it was so good!

We walked around for an hour and a half and then walked back to my house. What a wonderful day it was all around. I thank Dave and Janet for bringing the wonderful main course for our meal. Those Lobsters were so fresh and sweet, and so were the clams!

Happy Memorial Day!

What a nice Sunday Saturday we had. My cousin Janet, came up for a visit with her boyfriend, Dave. We were celebrating Janet’s good health reports! We cooked chicken breasts outside on the grill, and ate salad, potato salad, and corn on the cob! Since the day was warm and sunny, we spent the entire time outside sitting and eating at our patio table. For dessert I made strawberry shortcakes, and we all devoured them!

After that I re-potted a tomato plant and then we put up the cages around the tomato plants to keep them nice and steady. I still have several more tomato plants that I am going to put into the garden, as well as a few eggplants. Usually I put them into large patio pots, but this year I think it will be easier to have just a few patio pots and the rest in the regular garden.

I’m also thinking that this week I will plant all my grown up seedlings into the garden. I am thinking that we are past the time when frost will kill my garden, but I will wait a day or two before planting. I am so pleased with this years seedlings! They have grown to a huge size and are truly ready to be transplanted into the ground where they can grow and flourish!

So many wonderful things happening this spring! It makes me so happy and fills me with hope! Now if only Anneliese would do her part, then I would be even happier, if that is possible!

Yesterday I wrote that I’d hoped that my cousin’s picture of me and her dogs came out. I spoke to her today and she forwarded it on to me this afternoon. As you can see, Max and Wolf love their Auntie Maribeth!

You probably can’t tell, but I’m a real dog lover!

I woke at about 1:50 AM Sunday morning. I knew that at 2 AM the time changed and we were due to leap forward an hour. Now, my bedside clock is a satellite clock and I wondered if it would reset itself at 2 AM. I truly wish I were not so inquisitive because I lay there watching the clock until 1:59……3:00 AM!!! I was very impressed and fell back to sleep smiling.

It rained all day on Sunday and yet I needed to go out to the store, because after buying out the grocery shop the other day, I realized I had forgotten celery! Now how could I have done that? So off I went, in the rain to get a bunch.

I drove down town because I wanted to see if the Bob house was still on the ice, had been removed, or fallen through the thin ice. If you guessed that it had fallen through then you would be correct. All that showed was the very top of it that was somehow floating. Our town will need to dredge that area out before The Mount Washington Cruise Ship can come into the town docks.

Hubby still has a cold and I feel like I either have hay fever or a small cold as my nose is pretty stuffy! A feeling I do not like.

I take the dackels in for their yearly shots today. They love the ride over and it’s always nice to see my Vets.

Have a good Monday, everyone!!!