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The Turtle Hospital on Marathon Key in Florida

Read about how I became a bona fide turtle lover, and how I made a very special connection with one rare Kemp’s Ridley’s turtle! Read the rest of this entry »

Tulips in February ~ A Good Thing

• Early Morning Couch Nap
• Cushy Seats At Starbuck’s
• Checks in the Mail
• High School Memories of Great Teachers with my Facebook Friends
• Having everything needed to make a cool corn chowder recipe I printed out earlier this month… but forgot about.  And it was Yummy!

It says:

I use to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, You can start any time now & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up.

Now I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there’s no laughter I know they’re not for me.

Well with Ben off to university it’s time for Malcolm and I to spend some time together thinking about what we will do next. This February my father and Lucy decided that they should escape from the cold Northeast and go south for a while – WAY south – down to Key West, Florida! We’ve never been to the Florida Keys, so this provided the perfect opportunity for us to begin our great adventure!

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Joan VanBlarcom - Rushmore Farms, Goshen, NY circa 1986

Joan Van Blarcom my Rushmore Farms boss and friend passed away recently. She inspired me to work hard and ask questions. She was practical and kind. Looking back I wish I’d paid more attention to some of the lessons she had for me. But of course when you are young you have to learn from your own mistakes. She loved fishing, Star Trek, and of course horses. This former Playboy Bunny was an amazing gardener and would give away her extra produce on a make shift table near the road. The world would be a better place with more Joan… but instead we will have to carry on for her. She played a mean game of “Words with Friends”.

Okay that’s it I’m making it official.  I am NOT a Tea Party member… but most of you knew that already!  I’ve decided to become a member of the Irish Coffee Party!  We do NOT believe that Barak Obama is a Kenyan Born Muslim.  We think Barak O’Bama is an Irish born Leprechaun. You want proof?  Look no further than his obvious gift of the gab.  As evidence of this legendary Irish trait I present to you the transcript of today’s speech in Ireland.  I think you’ll agree it’s as Irish as anything JFK said!    Enjoy!

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I had not blogged in so long that I’d forgotten how to log in!  Took me quite a while but I’m back.  I’ve got to post something so because I don’t want to loose it I’ll through up a copy of my Dad’s Rum Cake recipe!

Jack Ryan is know around Newport, Rhode Island for making this DIVINE Rum Cake!

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One night in August I was sitting at my office desk hanging out on twitter and I found out that Alli Worthington from Blissdom was going to host the first ever Blissdom Canada event in October.  Instantly I thought I should go.  Of course then I immediately started talking myself out of it…

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My Mom passed away 2 years ago this week.

About a month after her memorial service I got a lovely email from someone who attended my Mom’s memorial service.

It made me smile… so here it is:

Hello, Anne. I just wanted to say thanks again for the warm memorial afternoon. I was glad we could have a Chelsea YC table.

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These are the cookies I made for my son’s recent sleep over.

They loved them! But they are 16 yo boys and will eat anything! LOL

Still I’ve made these for years and they are yummy!

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