[lovsthosebigdogs]

Long grooming session with my almost 12 year old Great Pyrenees dog. Those times are so loving and intimate and he isn't well so every one we share is precious.

[jpharmat]

Great thread !!

Today I had the most awesome workout. Added some extra weight to the bar... a little out of my comfort zone with success.
Patty

[jojo]

I put over 200 miles on my golf cart this month - almost all for play (tennis, water aerobics, squares etc.) and I was gone for 10 days. Life is good in The Villages.

[Debfrommaine]

Hubby got his second hole-in-one at Sandhill today, two in four months, same course. First one on the 6th hole and today on the 7th. Very proud and happy for him!

[pooh]

Originally Posted by Debfrommaine

Hubby got his second hole-in-one at Sandhill today, two in four months, same course. First one on the 6th hole and today on the 7th. Very proud and happy for him!

Please offer my congratulations!!! Well done...

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by newkidinvillages

My golf game got rained out today. A blessing based on the way I was playing.

Tee hee. That was one of my positives today 2. Another was just getting back from a nice long walk with DH and our beloved dog, Bogey.

[Skip2MySue]

Just returned from Katie Belles and the Rocky and the Rollers/ Joey Dee and the Starlighters show. Surprise outing for Sue and we both really enjoyed the evening. Even got to sit with Pennecampers at our table. Life is good.
Skip 2

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by Skip2MySue

Just returned from Katie Belles and the Rocky and the Rollers/ Joey Dee and the Starlighters show. Surprise outing for Sue and we both really enjoyed the evening. Even got to sit with Pennecampers at our table. Life is good.
Skip 2

Ain't it!

[collie1228]

I retired last week and on Friday I received my first pension payment notice. Unfortunately, it was over $1K per month short of what I thought it should be. I immediately called my (former) company's benefits line, but it was too late in the day to get a response on Friday. So I waited all weekend, thinking I was OK, but not really knowing for sure. Today my call was answered and my benefits "consultant" admitted they screwed it up. So I'm pretty happy today - almost like winning the lottery! So yes, today was a good day.

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by collie1228

I retired last week and on Friday I received my first pension payment notice. Unfortunately, it was over $1K per month short of what I thought it should be. I immediately called my (former) company's benefits line, but it was too late in the day to get a response on Friday. So I waited all weekend, thinking I was OK, but not really knowing for sure. Today my call was answered and my benefits "consultant" admitted they screwed it up. So I'm pretty happy today - almost like winning the lottery! So yes, today was a good day.

What's a mere $1K per month between friends?

[CarGuys]

I saw my garage floor for the first time in two weeks and got to move the car inside!


YES!

[paulandjean]

Had a phone call from an old friend. Former college "Hall of Fame" basketball coach.Great conversation,talked a bit about the dream team 2 playing now.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by pooh

Enough of the negatives for today....tell us something positive you've experienced today or in the past few days. Doesn't have to be anything monumental, just something you've enjoyed. I'll go first.

Today Mike and I took a drive around the area...out to Inverness, Floral City and some other small communities. May not seem like much to many of you, but it was a ride on some back roads, through neighborhoods and something that wasn't the easiest thing to do in the part of southern CA we moved from. It reminded me of the Sunday afternoon drives my father would take the family on....always through the country where we could admire nature, see other towns, communities, neighborhoods. It was lots of fun, well unless my sister or brother would take up some of my room in the back seat....

Next.....

Staying with your peaceful memories of your childhood Sunday drives with your dad (which I also remember well....in the days before congested New Jersey highways and speeding cars).....we just enjoyed our third trip north this summer, taking our youngest grandbaby north to visit her Vermont cousins and watching the world roll by through the eyes of a one year old.

What a delightful child, even after eight hours of flight time to get to us from Colorado.....just to watch the thought process of a one year old baby girl exploring her new surroundings, playing and figuring out her new toys and just loving Vermont.............but the best fun was meeting the three older cousins again and being the center of everyone's attention........she brought joy to everyone.......topped off by a belated 1st b.day dinner at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont (home of the Sound of Music family)......another day had her first ice cream cone; petted baby animals on farms and just enjoyed it all. Simple pleasures.

Miraculously, all the RAIN and HUMIDITY Vermont has had did stop DEAD during our three trips up.......

Children and grandchildren do keep us young at heart......and that's very positive. Not to mention seeing the beauty of our Green Mountain State where there are more cows than people........a very different world than New Jersey for sure.

This is our "bubble". We spent our first 25 years in New Jersey and our past 42 years in Vermont. TV no doubt "down the road".....

But as my mom would say when visiting, "Vermont is God's Country"; she later retired here and enjoyed 30 years before passing; is buried in the Green Mountains.....far away from N.J.

Since all three visits north were extended trips, staying over for 4 to 5 days, we were able to see the terrible damage done by "Hurricane IRENE" last August when torrential rains wiped out roads and bridges connecting tiny villages, leaving people along the middle of the state unable to get down off their mountain towns.......either east or west......BUT NOW THE NEW ROADS AND BRIDGES are being completed.........the river embankments have been shored up.........all positive developements.
We still did see houses and barns "tilted" off their foundations..........

Anyway, these picturesque quaint memories of our beautiful green mountains , horse shows, cows and other farm animals, will last us through the winter months.........as will the memories of the fun loving 4 grandchildren and new one on the way. All are wonderful children and a joy to behold. Enjoyed our adult children and their spouses as well.

Our "kids" have been out on their own, first off to universities, then off to BIG CITIES for jobs.......for at least 20 to 25 years, but when we all are able to get together, we do realize the importance of family and its continuity. Next year we'll have another graduation.....not high school commencement like last month, but a grandson off to middle school.....they grow up so quickly.

Back in our own town, before taking our son and his wife and baby to the airport, it was quite obvious to him and us that all of our neighbors who had known us and him for years before he was even born, taught him in high school and whose own children we had watched grow up from infants..........came together again. A great reunion.

There is something to be said for either returning or remaining in your home town.........like wintering in Florida but returning "home" to the oldest roots. I know that will not be a popular "thought" with those who perhaps have no children, but it's a reason we are NOT rushing into selling our home........still thinking which option is better for us....fulltime or part time.

[eremite06]

Last night the wife and I took a 5 mile walk on a rail-to-trail along the Allegheny river in western Pennsylvania. A rabbit ran across our path. she yelled and I jumped straight up in the air. We laughed and will remember that for a long time.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by njbchbum

the spirit of people to come together in a time of crisis, neighbor helping neighbor, a band ot teenagers going house to house and block to block helping sr citizens and not accepting money in return in the town of freehold, nj that is recovering from the devastation of a straight line storm that caused enough damage for the town to be declared in a state of emergency where residents can only walk around town, entrances to the town are barricaded to keep vehicles out and where there is a dusk to dawn curfew while more than 60 power crews work to clear power lines of 100 year old trees and restore power to more than 2,000 residents. there were no deaths and no looting despite the times. makes me remember that the lord works in strange ways.

Your neck of the woods has been hit quite often the past several years with these unusually severe storms; we have family in that area and all over the state of N.J. Northern N.J. also has had its share of flooding the past few years and lately power outages/trees down etc. Ditto for the middle of the state.

It is devastating, but yet inspiring to see neighbors and even strangers pitching in to help. God Bless.