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I'm BAAAA-ACK!

The very clever of you will notice I was gone for my birthday. Well, I spent it in the best way possible, in my bathing suit at the beach with my darling GD. This photo was taken at Paradise Cove in Malibu California.

And lemme tell ya, NOTHING surprises a person like a six layer leaning tower of CAKE! I laughed the whole time they were bringing it over and singing. We did NOT eat all of it, but it was quite delicious. I ended up getting THREE cakes, but more on those later. I have been up since "O-dark thirty" and I am one tired Memere.

One more:

Here is my darling son with his daughter and his favorite quilt that I made. It is Magic Carpet and it is (believe it or not) a scrap quilt (but only in the broadest definition of the word.)

Okay!

More later, a gal of my advanced years needs a lot of sleep to catch up from all the excitement!

Friday Tourists

 

Friday the weather was great, so Julie and I went back to Portsmouth. We visited a couple of the shops in Market Square, Marco Polo and the Treehouse Toy Shop, and bought gifts for our grandkids, including these glow-in-the-dark magnetic butterflies.

We went on a tour of the Moffat-Ladd House, and then drove to Kittery Maine where we did some shopping at the outlet stores

 and had an alfresco lunch. 

We then visited the Stonewall Kitchen Company Store, and I might have gone a little nuts.

We then took a leisurely drive south along New Hampshire's seacoast, stopping a Wallis Sands Beach in Rye NH so Julie could tickler her toesies in the Atlantic Ocean. Julie had a rather intimate experience with the ocean, and I will leave that to her to describe later.
 

A little bit farther south we stopped at The Beach Plum in Hampton.

We got ice cream, and then walked across the street to sit on the seawall and watch the ocean.

It was a great day. It was sunny, warm, a bit breezy and very comfortable. We drove home, had dinner and called it a day.