Back to New England

Joe and I got to go back to New England for 10 days this past week. We flew into Portland Maine.









We stayed with our friends for a couple of days. We have been friends for over 30 years. When we get together we seem to pick up our conversation right where we left off from our last time together. It is great to have friends like this.
We then left Maine and went to Gloucester, Massachusetts. We stayed at the Bass Rock Inn which is right on the beach. We stayed there four days. Joe went into Boston on the Train. They have a great transit system in Massachusetts. While Joe was at meetings I got to site see. I spend one day seeing Gloucester, a day each at Newburyport, Salem and Rockport. I love the history and I love New England. I loved the time when we lived in Nashua, NH. Next time we go back I want to get our family history out and find the places our ancestors lived.

Cool camera

I want a new camera! I have been looking at camera's every time I would stop in Best Buy, Sams etc. I was always looking for one that had a fast shutter speed. My digital camera is almost eight years old, has only 2 mega pixels and a very slow shutter/record time. I found the camera I had been dreaming about. It is a Canon, the PowerShot SD880 IS. It takes pictures fast and even can take one right after another, (continuous Shooting) has a large display screen and a Lithium-ion battery. I love how easy it is to use.

I found a great website!

I just heard about a great website that helps you with menus, recipes, creates a shopping list and you can even edit it with your own menus. This looks like a really time saver. The address is:
http://www.simplifysupper.com I'm for any help I can with menus. I did a Google and found the following site that might be good also. Check it out and enjoy.

http://www.menus4moms.com/

Our Vacation Home

We have a beautiful vacation home in the lovely town of Idaho Falls. It has been our home for the past 23 years. We have it up for sale but with the housing market being so crazy we might have a vacation home for awhile.

Island Park

We went Island Park for Labor Day. We had a blast. We got to ride horses, (those that wanted to), float on the small lake in canoes & fishing. Here are some of the pictures from our trip.

For the past couple of years I have been sewing handbags and selling them. I would love for you to look at some of the pictures of handbags I have made. I have several other styles of handbags but have not got pictures taken yet.

Zoo Day

Today Papa and I took Braeden and Carter to the zoo with us. Joe's work had a day at to zoo. We had a great time seeing all the animals. Braeden was our guide, telling us where to go next. We had a map that showed where the animals were and he could tell what most of the pictures were and then told us to go see this animal next and so on. The boys loved the new carousel ride the best. Two rides each! It was really hot, high 90's today so we decided to head home about 2:00. The boys wanted to stay longer.