Mainly, the Grandkids

It's been over a year since I retired and began writing this blog.  The purpose of doing so was to be able to keep my friends, colleagues and family abreast of my activities and in doing so I have made a whole new, wonderful, interesting, talented group of friends out there in Blogland.  I still hope that my older connections are interested in what I am up to and read my blog along with the "Followers" who often write to me and leave delightful comments.  That being said, you will remember from my last post that I was leaving on a nine day trip (out of town) to visit my family and my two darling grandchildren.

I would love to load up this page with oodles of photographs of my darling Grandson Rhys and even more darling Grand-daughter Katherine but I will refrain and only post a few.  Grandmas will appreciate how difficult this is going to be for me to restrain myself, LOL, but here goes.............

Here's Katherine....

And Katherine with ME........

And now for my favourite Grandson, Rhys.......

Getting a haircut.....

After the haircut.....

As Superman for halloween.....

In his raincoat............

No more photos Grandma......

I could keep going on and on, but I think I had better stop before I start losing friends, LOL  It's hard to believe that I have been and come back from visiting them.  When you arrive you think that you have so much time but it quickly passes and before you know it, you are back home.  The weather was awful, rained and I mean RAINED, most every day.  It seems that "Sandy" affected many areas.

Another VERY important occasion whilst I was visiting my family was that I attended another son's graduation.  He just received his MBA (this was his third degree).  Am I proud? you bet I am.  Getting a photo was very difficult considering the size of the auditorium but this was better than not getting one.........



Now to get back into the swing of things.  I managed to finish a small picture yesterday, it's a combination of painting and crafting.  I think it turned out okay.......

And this is a piece of pottery which I purchased from The Potters' Guild on Saturday.  Wawa, a small town situated north of here was hit by terrible rainstorms which resulted in quite a bit of damage.  A fellow potter who lived there had lost his entire livelihood, home and all his pottery equipment when his studio/home began sliding into the river.  Our Potters' Guild had a table set up at their Open House with items for sale (made by them) and all the proceeds were going to this gentleman and his family.   This is the item I purchased...........



Well, it's getting late and I am running out of things to say.  I'm meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow (Dawn) - that will be nice - I have been looking forward to doing this for a few weeks but we couldn't seem to pick a suitable time, so tomorrow it is!!

I hope you all have a great week.  Thanks to all those who said prayers for my brother and sent good thoughts.  You are the best.  Big hugs, Chris

When I did this post last night I forgot to mention that any friends of my friend Laurie who followed her blog "In my dreams I see" can now find her new blog at....   http://iloveacloudyday.blogspot.ca/