I found this picture and fell in love with it. This reminds me of my little boy Jack, so this is my fourth of July banner from us to all of my internet friends.
Thank goodness it’s stopped raining, the sun’s out!!! The garden is growing, I really don’t know how it is with all the rain. Broccoli is just about over, it tasted good until one night I looked on my plate and said” What is that?” THAT was a little WORM, then another one, OMG what happened??? Hubby deadpanned,”Did you wash the broccoli good hon?” I thought so!!! “Evidently not” He said. Needless to say it went in the trash and the new broccoli I picked went to my parents, let MOM wash the suckers!!!!!! I’m done eating that!!!
The blackberries are coming on and turning dark. I picked some for a trial run of jam. The are still tart and when I made the jam it wasn’t dark enough, it reminded me of raspberry jam that I make. So I think I will wait until next week, that is if the birds don’t find them first!! LOL! I’m looking forward to making blackberry jam. I have strawberry already made for this year, and am going to make more blueberry jam in a few weeks. Then the peach jam next. I said that I wouldn’t compete this year, but I might change my mind if the blackberry jam turns out,===ummm we’ll see. 
I’ve been so busy on face-book that I have totally neglected my world. It’s hard to keep up with it all and work too. Lately it seems that i have been doing alot of traveling around, not far but enough to throw things off.
I first went to Baltimore City for a job interview, that was a trip. The last time I had to go downtown Baltimore it was to take a test for a higher license. This time hubby went with me and it was interesting. First off the traffic was busy and the roads went every where! We found the office building and looked for a parking garage. Luck us we found one 4 blocks away and on the 6 tier! Glad it wasn’t raining! Walking around I felt like I was the best dressed on the street, what with the tourist, the homeless, and the drunks! The interview was only 20 minutes long. The trip took all day just for that. Oh well it was something that I have always wanted to try for and am glad I did.
After that day we decided that we needed to get away for a couple of days, so we went to our fav. place, PA. First stop is New Holland then on to Mannheim for Roots, a big farmer’s market and produce market only open on Tues. They had the best and freshest veggies and fruits, I tried to bring them all home! LOL!
Saturday my daughter and I went to NYC to a broadway play-Mamma Mia was at the Winter Garden theater on broadway.
Our bus got there early and let us off, so we walked up and down Broadway. Such fun and alot to see. I was surprised that the city wasn’t full of people, there were people walking and traffic was there , but I expected it to be allot worse. But as we walked to Times Square, it was so funny, it was like basking on the beach in the city. The streets were blocked off, a band was playing and people were sitting in web lawn chairs, reclining ones! Just chilling like on the beach or the boardwalk in OC> so funny, but a neat idea, if you can’t get outta the city, improvise!!! LOL!
did you know that you can turn your phone around and take a pic??!! This is us in Times Square chilling too.
I have never seen a Broadway play and now I am just hooked. It was totally awesome, I would go again in a heart beat! Now I have to see the movie.
Finally a great weekend for camping! I had no idea how many people go to Tall Pines for the holiday weekends! The place was full! The site we were on was ideal for sitting back and people watching. It was just like sitting on the boardwalk in Ocean City! This was also the first time we took Jack camping. It was a barrel of fun, he had so much to look at and to go do, that he was exhausted at night! (we were too! LOL!) I introduced him to moving water; he didn’ t know what to do with that, so we went in-that was great until he came out and promptly rolled in the sand, UGH! Back in the water Jack!
The campground had a beach lulua with dancing one night, then karoke the next and something going on every day. I took a lot of bike rides around the grounds meeting friends and just chilling. Jack went with me————
why walk when you can ride baby ride!!!!
What a bummer of a weekend, well not all weekend, but enough! We left for Assateague Island Fri. just as soon as I could jump out of the car from work, and into the truck. Trailer was all packed and ready. Friday night was great, the ocean was low, the temp. was in the 70’s, just nice. Bike riding and walking was on the agenda. The park was pretty full too. The night was beautiful, the stars were out and the bonfire was warm. I love a bonfire, something about it makes me stay out late and just watch it.
The next day everything changed, the winds started blowing , it was still nice, so I was able to bike around some and walk to the ocean, burrr the water’s cold! Hubby and I decided to take a ride and see how many campers were in the state and federal part of the island. Boy were we surprised, both campgrounds were full. Mostly I saw a lot of tenters and young adults camping. We then rode to Ocean City and took the park and ride bus into the inlet for the car show. WOW, there were some people there!!! The inlet was full of classic and street rod cars, and the people ever where! It cost $10.00 a person to get inside of the parking lot to view the cars. Way tooo much money when you could walk the perimeter of the lot and see everything you wanted to see! LOL! Of course no trip to the boardwalk is complete unless you either get Trasher’s french fries or Fisher’s popcorn. Well the line for french fries was 2 miles long so I opted for popcorn. Good choice, it was just made and nice and hot. The sun was out and it was warm and pleasant, so we decided to go back to camp—wrong idea, you could see the cold haze just laying on the island. What a difference in temps!! By Sunday it was gonna rain so we packed up early and came home, just great to be home for a while. Maybe next weekend we will hit the good weather. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WRoWPhLU2Q
I’ve never heard the real version of taps, this is so great!
Today is my mother’s birthday, she is 80…something, LOL, she would not want her real age in computer land! HA! HA!
As I think about my childhood with her and dad, I can honestly say that I had great parents. I can’t remember doing without something, not having enough food on the table, nice clothes to wear, or hearing them fighting. That is something that you don’t see as much any more. See they believed in marriage ever after and you worked on your family, not give up on them. I don’t remember her being overly huggy, kissy, that is now that I am older. Sure there are things that I don’t agree with and I’m sure she feels the same way with me, nobody can be the same. But I learned how much she loves me when I went through a bad time years ago, she was there-not just sometimes-she was there whenever I needed her and even when I didn’t think she knew -she was there. I will never forget that!
Now that she is in the later years of her life, I want to make it as easy as I can on her, as much as I possibly can-for you see I love my mother unconditionally and forever, even when I could “ring her neck”- I will never not talk to her or turn my back on her, because I can’t picture my children doing that to me-a mother’s love is totally unconditionally period!!
So happy birthday mom I glad the Lord gave me another year with you
This was sent to me on my space page by a dear friend in Calif. It brought tears to my eye when I read it. The real mother is in these lines.In between the lines are many diamonds of wisdom. Please read and think about your “mother, grandmother, etc. It applies to all of them. THE TITLE COULD ALSO BE CHANGED TO ” WHY MOTHER’S CRY” 
“Why Women Cry”
A little boy asked his mother,
‘Why are you crying?’
‘Because I’m a woman,’ she told him,
‘I don’t understand,’ he said,
His Mom just hugged him and said,
‘And you never will,’
Later the little boy asked his father,
‘Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?’
‘All women cry for no reason,’
was all his dad could say,
The little boy grew
up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry,
Finally he put in a call to God,
When God got on the phone, he asked,
‘God, why do women cry so easily?’
God said: ‘When I made the woman
she had to be special, I made her
shoulders strong enough to carry the
weight of the world, yet gentle
enough to give comfort,
I gave her an inner strength to endure
childbirth and the rejection that many
times comes from her children, I gave her
a hardness that allows her to keep going
when everyone else gives up, and take
care of her family through sickness and
fatigue without complaining, I gave her the
sensitivity to love her children under any
and all circumstances, even when her
child has hurt her very badly,
I gave her strength to carry her husband
through his faults and fashioned her
from his rib to protect his heart, I gave
her wisdom to know that a good husband
never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests
her strengths and her resolve to stand
beside him unfalteringly,
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed,
This is hers exclusively to use
whenever it is needed,’
‘You see my son,’ said God,
‘the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes
she wears, the figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair, The beauty
of a woman must be seen in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart
- the place where love resides,’
There’s a lot of truth in this quote. It rings true around here.
When my children were growing up each one had a security something. One was a “passie” (pacifier), others security blankets. They carried those things until they were rags! The only way to wash them was waiting till they were fast asleep, then steal it and wash and dry quickly before they woke up and missed it, for if it was gone, my oh my–bad news! I don’t remember when they gave up the blankets, maybe the first day of school, the “passie” accidental “fell out the car window” oh-oh!
I thought that all of that was behind me, until “Mr. Jack as in Jack Russell puppy. He has several blankets for his bed, for the car, for the crate. But there are 2 of them that he is attached to, the funny thing is that they are baby receiving blanket! Ha! Ha! When I decide that they are cruddy and need washing I confiscate them and wash away, not even thinking that he knows, but HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS! When the dryer opens he is the first one in. I captured him in the act tonight, he is so funny!
“I KNOW IT’S IN HERE SOMEWHERE?”
‘AHA THERE IT IS”
“I’M TAKING THIS BACK, RIGHT NOW!”
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