I'm back

This was a difficult weekend.  Lots of travel and I'm exhausted.  Off to bed.  Goodnight.

wake up call

I've shown this picture before but it needs another run.  Busy plans for this weekend.  I might need to rest all next week.  Hope this coffee jolt works!!  And this is how I feel about early morning flights (5:45 a.m., to be exact)  all. blacked. out.

purple hats

This is the time of year that I knit purple colored hats for babies.   The hats are then sent to hospital maternity wards and distributed to new babies during the month of November.

dive in

I think I am about to enjoy a good meal here.  Wow, pancakes and eggs and bacon and grapefruit juice and a cup of coffee.  Yum, yum.  Everyone should start their day out with a good breakfast.  I't the most important meal of the day, right?  (same hairstyle)

birthday dinner with Dad

My favorite Mexican restaurant in Venice, Florida always did the birthday honoree proud.  The hat, the serenade, the food--all this and more--made the evening especially fun.  Here I am with my Dad fourteen years ago enjoying the moment.  A nice memory.

ordering out

Just me and three of my friends from high school/college hanging out for the evening.

dinner mates

Somewhere hidden in this very dark snapshot are eight hungry people gathered around the table on the ship we were all sailing in along the western coast of Norway.  The year is 2004 and I am traveling with my sister.  It is another one of our adventures and this was only the beginning.  The sailing part took one week and we were safely tucked away on our ship.  The next three weeks brought more adventure "on the fly" as we made our way from northern Norway, through Finland (scary trains), Sweden (beautiful farmlands) and back to Oslo.  But about our shipmates...Americans and Tasmanian/Latvians.  We bonded over dinner each night and talked of our daily adventures.  This is a very good memory.