Murphy's spending the next four days with us while his family goes on vacation. He loves his ball and his rawhide bone. He snores and worse. But he's sweet, funny and smooshy.
March 26, 2013
Week 13: P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday
Murphy's spending the next four days with us while his family goes on vacation. He loves his ball and his rawhide bone. He snores and worse. But he's sweet, funny and smooshy.
March 19, 2013
Week 12: P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday
Long Beach, NY has been a part of my life, on and off, for 35 years. When I was in Junior High school, my friends and I would take the LIRR from Valley Stream station to the Long Beach station to get to the beach during the summer.
Fifteen years later I was taking my two kids to the Magnolia Playground on the Long Beach boardwalk to play on the swings and climb on the jungle gyms. During the summer we'd pack up our beach gear several times a week and make our way to the beach for some sun and sand castles. We'd usually stop on the boardwalk for a soft serve ice cream cone before heading home. Besides vanilla and chocolate, they had pistachio. My little guy loved pistachio.
Fast forward another 15 years. When the kids would be home from college and we were looking to kill some time before dinner we'd drive down to Long Beach and take a walk on the boardwalk. We'd walk and talk and laugh. Sometimes we'd sit on one of the benches that lined the boardwalk and watch the windsurfers and surfers. Sometimes we'd go down in the winter to walk on the beach and the boardwalk in the snow. Special moments, all of them.
2012 brought Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Sandy brought devastation to Long Beach. Homes and businesses were damaged. The Magnolia Playground was pretty much destroyed and the boardwalk was damaged so badly in so many places that the town decided to tear down all 2 1/2 miles of it. Years of memories gone.
The rebuilding should be starting soon and the town is saying the boardwalk should all be back before the start of the 2013 beach season. I'm hoping that we'll be walking out there this summer, making some new memories.
Fifteen years later I was taking my two kids to the Magnolia Playground on the Long Beach boardwalk to play on the swings and climb on the jungle gyms. During the summer we'd pack up our beach gear several times a week and make our way to the beach for some sun and sand castles. We'd usually stop on the boardwalk for a soft serve ice cream cone before heading home. Besides vanilla and chocolate, they had pistachio. My little guy loved pistachio.
Fast forward another 15 years. When the kids would be home from college and we were looking to kill some time before dinner we'd drive down to Long Beach and take a walk on the boardwalk. We'd walk and talk and laugh. Sometimes we'd sit on one of the benches that lined the boardwalk and watch the windsurfers and surfers. Sometimes we'd go down in the winter to walk on the beach and the boardwalk in the snow. Special moments, all of them.
2012 brought Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Sandy brought devastation to Long Beach. Homes and businesses were damaged. The Magnolia Playground was pretty much destroyed and the boardwalk was damaged so badly in so many places that the town decided to tear down all 2 1/2 miles of it. Years of memories gone.
The rebuilding should be starting soon and the town is saying the boardwalk should all be back before the start of the 2013 beach season. I'm hoping that we'll be walking out there this summer, making some new memories.
March 13, 2013
Week 11: P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday
Take a ride across the Badlands.
Feel that freedom on your face.
Breathe in all that open space. ~ Jason Aldean
March 6, 2013
Week 10: P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday
Each year for the last four years my husband and I make a trip to Colorado to snowshoe for 5 days with a group of friends who gather from all over the country. I look forward to this trip each February ( I love the snow!) and can't wait to get together with a group of wonderful people.
Our first snowshoe hike was to Dream Lake, in Rocky Mountain National Park. The temperature was 22 degrees, winds at 5mph with a light snow falling. Nothing could have been more perfect.
March 3, 2013
Week 9: P52 Sweet Shot Tuesday
Better late than never this week. We got stuck in Colorado due to the weather. Now it's catch up time for everything.
The mountains are calling and I must go. ~ John Muir
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