Tracking all our Adventures!

Me and Sock Monkey thought it would be fun to put together a map of all the places the family has visited over the last 40 years. So we got a world map. We mounted it and took a few color pins and went to work. Black pins are for Paul’s work travels, red Emily’s, [...]

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Hello!!!!!

 
Sorry it has been so long since I been blogging but life got in the way. We have traveled a lot visited family and friends. Had weddings and funerals, cried some and laughed a lot! I have finished several projects and started some new ones. I thought I put up some pictures of the projects [...]

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Acid Dying Class

I had a great time last Friday at Gale’s Art studio! Gale has a small independent dyeing studio in Stone Mountain GA. She teaches there in small class of four people or less.
 
    
 
My class was 10:30 am to 2:30pm with open studio after. I learned a whole lot and enjoyed myself very much. We [...]

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Out and About in Peachtree City

 This summer I have been having a great time driving around on the cart paths. There is just so much to see and do around town.
 
   
 
With the price of gas I have been using the cart for most of my errands too. Peachtree City has about a 100 miles of cart paths that are [...]

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Coming back home! May 21,2008 twice!

We left Japan the afternoon at 4:30 pm of May 21,2008. We had a little over 11 hour flight and touched down in Detroit Michigan on May 21, 2008 in the afternoon at 2:20 p.m.  We then waited for two hours and head off to Marquette Michigan to visit family for Memorial Holiday weekend. It was [...]

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Out for Tempra in Shin-Yokohama

This is our last night in Japan. Tomorrow we take the shuttle bus to the airport and fly back to “yesterday”! If you look at our ticket you would think the flight was only one hour while in reality it is a 12 hour flight. 
So tonight Paul made special reservations at a little tempera restaurant [...]

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The Train station at Yokohama and the view from the 39th floor.

I went into the Yokohama Station this morning to get Paul some socks and hit the bank before we go home. These pictures were taken at noon on the way back. It was not at rush hour. During rush hour it is busier. The pictures of the city are from our room 39 floors up [...]

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Rain Rain Rain in Japan!

Today I went back to Nagasakaya Kamjoooka Store to get two more knitting books.
  
I promised a friend that I would go back and get her two books too. She knits and crochets a lot and designs too. Japanese books have great charts and illustrations so you are able with a little effort to [...]

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From Kita-Kamakura to Kamakura. The temple tour.

Today May 18th Sunday we took the Rapid Train to Kita-Kamakura and visited five temples that lead us all the way to Kamakura. We walked and walked and walked and then climbed stairs through some of the lushest and green area of Japan. Between Kita-Kamakura and Kamakura there are 30 temples or shrines. Each had beautiful [...]

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Finally a day of site seeing with Paul!

Paul finally had some time off so we went siteseeing. We decided to go to Kannai Yokohama. We went back by were the Silk Museum was. We first visited the Osanbashi Pier Yokohama and the International Passenger Terminal. It was just as impressive the second time! What a neat pier I think it looks like [...]

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