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She has found her nose.

The past week

The past week, Monday, we drove to New Hampshire to see our friend Anne. She had had surgery on her lung to remove a cancerous growth. It was great seeing her and found out later in the week that there was no cancer in her lymph nodes and the doctors feel they got it all.

We took the train on Wednesday to Boston with Norene. After lunch she was able to make a connection to the airport to catch a plane home to Florida. We went back to Becket.

Sunday, on Labor Day weekend we had a surprise birthday party for Alan’s 30th, over at Bambi and Jim’s house. It has been great to be able to spend more time with the family this year.

Monday we spent time with Joan and Earl. Joan was generous with her garden produce. Can’t wait to make cucumber and tomato salads. It has poured rain from this afternoon into the evening. Hope the rivers and streams have had time to abate to handle the additional water. We heard that Mark has to evacuate the camp grounds again. Roads are flooding. Let's see if we can drag some of this rain to Texas.
Spoke to Ellen in Austin and Joan and Frank in Leander, both have the fires close to them.

We will be leaving the New England area and will be heading towards home on Wednesday. There are friends we are going to try and see on the way home. They live in New Jersey and North Carolina.

Irene

July 28
Hurricane Irene visited us. Most of the roads we drove on last night where washed out. A lot of the roads in Sherwood Forest, where we were staying are washed out. We were moved not able to get to Lee or Pittsfield till late in the afternoon.
Last pictures were the road to the camping area and the playground had 5 ft of water.

wedding

The wedding

July 27,
Bambi and Jim’s wedding was a fantastic event. It was catered at the Hills Country Club in Waterbury, CT… They had an open bar that led to everyone loosing up . It was so nice to see most of the family together, dancing, laughing and having a great time.
Mike gave BAmbi away. Norene and Mark. Bambi, Our table, Jim the grome

Rhode Island

Following weekend we went to Rhode Island to visit Gene’s sister Betty and Brother Donnie and all Betty’s and Johns family. Their kids, kids kids, etc. We went to a beautiful light house in Narragansett and ate at Iggy’s, which is a great little fish restaurant off the beach. We had baked fish and clam chowder, along with their famous crab cakes. Diner was outside under the trees with a cool ocean breeze adding to the ambiance. We also visited Beavertail Lighthouse the 3rd oldest in the America’s.
All the Begin family managed to make it down for the weekend and the first day Gene’s sister Joan was with us. Surprisingly the weather was great all weekend since rain was predicted. We visited some rock beaches and watched the sail boats going out from the bay.
As we drove home the rain came down and we talked of the great time we had.

Reunion

FAMILY REUNIONDawn and Jeff arrived from Texas on Aug. 11, and surprised us getting to the campground early. Since we found that Jackie’s pop up trailer had some major water problems, we decided to have Jeff and Dawn stay in our camper. Dawn was so funny when she first arrived she was so thrilled with the cool weather and that we could sit outside at the picnic table. After about an hour she went in and got her zippered hoodie. After about another hour she went in for a sweatshirt to put under the hoodie. She had experienced a more than 50 degree temperature change in just a few hours. Jeff on the other hand went into the trailer and took a nap. He had been working long hours the past few days.The reunion was great with a majority of our kids, their kids, grandkids and great grandkids and families. The weather was great all weekend then monday morning it poured. Most everyone got out before the rain on Sunday night. Monday Laurie and 3 of her kids, along with Dawn, Jeff, Norene, so we had a breakfast in our trailer for 9 or so of the family and let them dry off.  We then sent them on their way, two to the airport and the rest home to Connecticut.
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