Alpaca's

We walked over to see the Alpaca's tonight.The little ones love it and helped Evie with the feeding.

Thanksgiving 2011

What a nice day, it started at 8 a.m and ended at 8 p.m.I went to Evie and Jim for breakfast and to Nan and Joe for the rest of the day. Lots of fun. Seeing and playing with the little ones from Boston is always a joy.Molly got all dressed up and is a sweet girl. Little Kate has to look you over first, but smiled later. She does not remember me.Then Kim picket me up to go to Joe and Nan. We sat out side for a couple of hours by a camp fire. That is for me always a treat.Later the special Turkey dinner and we all ate to much, it was great.We had so much fun, special Lucas gave us a show.I also talked with Kristy in London.She is looking forward to coming home next week. It will be great to see her.

Visitors from Boston.

This morning I was carving in my bathrobe when the door bell rang. O my god I am in my bathrobe at 10.30 in the morning and company. It was Jim and family. He got the kids out of the car and I got dressed. Molly wanted to see Beppe, and I am very pleased. I just had fineshed a little stool for her for Sinterklaas last night.Kate is growing and I put her on a quilt that her Oma had made. She was great and I got some big smiles from her.Jim went a while to the basement with Molly, so she could run. They also looked at my blackboard there with many signatures.Molly tryed on the Friese klompen, but she had out grown them.Great to have such a loving family.

Getting ready for the Holidays.

Kim got me started early for the Holydays. She had Lucy and Freddy overnight and they decorated her tree.I did not have any plans today, so it seems a good time to do the same. I did plan not much decoration but do want to show my Santa's So here are some of my Santa's.

Thanksgiving.

Tonight I am going to my first Turkey dinner this year. The Seniors of our town are beeing treated for a dinner by the Rotary members.It made me think what does Thanksgiving realy mean to me. It use to be getting the family's together.Now I have a different feeling. Today I went with Evie to a craft show and later we did go out for lunch with a school friend of Jim. She was a nice person to talk with, and we talked about every thing. But the feeling I got it is not what you eat but the caring for others. It is so nice to talk to younger people and feel they did like it the way it was. Not electronic to get together, but caring. We are a world of instruments. What we miss is the touching,hugging and showing you care.Tell you family you love them, over and over again. Untill you great grand daughter says, You say that all the time. Great ,I hope it sticks.

The latest news.

Ihave been without a working computer for a while but thanks to my family I am back. We are a creature of habids and I missed my dayly routine. Look what is new with the family, the news and keeping in touch.We had a few acidents in the family. Richard cut of a piece of his tumb. I got last night attacked by Lucas.I was sitting down and Geneseo came to bring my computer back. I said to Lucas you want a cookie?Boy did he know that word . He jumped at me and scraped my arm open with his nails.It was pretty deep and bleeding. My arm hurts a little not from the cut but I think from the push.It has been a strange week. First I left my cane in a store. I left it in the cart.Then I could not find my statement from Social Security. Went to the bank and they had it on the computer that it was in. So why did you not put it on my statement. It was also a puzzle for them. Then finaly some one said where is your second page. Sure there it was. I felt so small, but beeing a creature of habbits. It was always on one page.So?I also have been doing a little of carving.My hands are so bad but it feels so good to do something with Art.Today I had my car serviced , new back brakes and they found a nice big mouse nest under the glove compartment.The manager told me to put some moth balls in the hood. So now I have mothballs in the car, in the garage and outside for snakes and mice.

11-11-2011 Veterans Day

Today it is Veterans day. I have the flag out and my memories are going way back. I sit here thinking what it means, do people really get the feeling? I do and I have great appreciation for or men and women that help people from suffering. I know what it means to see a young man with a rifle in his hand looking for the bad men. In my case the Germans. I still can see the faces of the ones that freed us. Often wonder if they make it trough the war.I always hoped that with the end of WWII there would be peace. It did not, so we always need soldiers to defend us. But I thank all the soldiers for their service, because of you I had freedom most of my life.