Back to Reality…

Aug 22, 2011

Today, sum­mer is over as Ans­ley started back to school as a senior. My good­ness did these years pass by fast. I still can­not believe this is her last year in high school. I best enjoy her as much as pos­si­ble this year as I know she will be ready to fly the coup soon. Which brings me to ask this ques­tion… What in the world will Alan and I do with just the two of us at home? We have always had a child in the house as I mar­ried Alan when Terri was 2 years old. I’m just going to put all this way deep in the back of my mind for now and share with you some photo col­lages from my trip to Buck­han­non, WV. It was an awe­some visit with all the fam­ily and I hope we can get together again next year. I love going up there and see­ing everyone.

This is of the old fam­ily home­stead. I love this place and have so many won­der­ful mem­o­ries going there.

All of these pho­tos were taken on my aunt and uncle’s prop­erty from their gar­den, pears from what is left of the orchard from long ago, old tools my great, great, great uncle used, a black cherry wood­pile and other land­scape photos.

And her are some fam­ily pho­tos and pho­tos from one of the trips to the Ron Hin­kle Glass Gallery. The quilt shown in the upper right cor­ner is one that my mom pieced together. My grand­mother pieced all the red, white and blue squares together many years ago. When she passed away and my mom and her brother and sis­ter were clean­ing out the house she found the squares. So mom pieced all the squares and brought it up for her cousin and his wife to have machine quilted. Her cousin owns The Stitch­ing House and Sew Much More. It is the most amaz­ing quilt shop I have every been in.

I hope you enjoyed the guest blog­gers I had sched­uled to post while I was gone. I loved read­ing what they posted and cer­tainly appre­ci­ated their help. Tomor­row I have some­thing super awe­some to tell you about that includes a nice trip to Bel­la­gio, Italy in Sep­tem­ber of 2012. All I can say is start pack­ing your bags now! It’s awesome.

Hugs!