FINALLY

well larry is now a happy camper yesterday was the first he has had a chance to get out goose hunting and it was his birthday so i guess that was his present and he even got one..now he and mitch are even out again today and can you believe yesterday's goose is in the crockpot for dinner today..

now for me i've spent thurs and and fri baking for the harvest festival here in our community..cakes for the cake wheel that the auxiliary runs and the money goes to the community council for kid programs and also for the senior bake sale at the festival..then i spent most of the day helping with the cake wheel and it was a perfect fall day..could have been cold and rainy but the sun was out and nice which also helps bring out the people to come buy stuff..

then in the evening we went to a neighbor's pig roast that he has every year to celebrate his birthday--he also raises pigs so he picks out the best to butcher and roast...so it has been a busy saturday and today will also be..talked to lisa this morning and she said there ground is covered with FROST ugh..they are a bit north of us near the canadian border so they would get it way before we would..they live in the area of ny that gets the most snow..lucky them hahahah...

leaves are beginning to turn some so it won;'t be long that are hill sides will be full of color..

MORE

first there is a picture of the eight of us in a town called hawi...we found this great big tree and all of us could not ring the tree it was so huge...the there are the swim beauties hahaha oe of our days on the beach and after we all bought sorong's at the farmer's market..good deal...

things have been busy since we have gotten back and lar and i look at each other and say want to go away..we both say yes but i guess we won't yet not till columbus day weekend....we attend the funeral of a dear friend and neighbor yesterday and today lar says we need a new lawn mower..i guess that last stump i hit really did it in..but it has

been ready to replace for a few years ..it is just that larry is just such a good fix-it guy that finally he says enough is enough..so soon we will go shopping..we will need one before the mowing season is over as that lawn needs it now...

the garden is still producing and we have been eating tomatoes every day and sometimes twice a day...winter squash looks like we ought to have enough for us to enjoy...garlic done well and there more than enough for the season..our pear tree only has 2 pears on it so we will both get to eat one...grapes not so good--4 filberts on one of the trees...all in all the garden has paid for itself but the fruit trees not so good...

"Hawaian Favorite"

THE LOCO MOGO.....

2 SCOOPS RICE

1 LARGE BURRGER

2 EGGS any style

SMOTHERED WITH BROWN GRAVY

Great for breakfast Lunch or Dinner!!!

also served with sausage or meat of your choice! YUM YUM...

TOGETHER

first there were six of us in honolulu and of course what did we do the most but "EAT"..this was our first meal together..my 2 sister and there husbands and lar and i met in honolulu so we could do pearl harbour and the beach at wikiki along with lots of other stuff like diamond head-the pineapple farm-gardens-watching all the other tourists and there were lots of them..spent time swimming at the pool and also the ocean.....

then we moved on the the BIG ISLAND where my brother dan and his wife met us there for the real family vacation...christeen-me-dan-sylvina...we had rented a condo near kona.. that was the home base and from there we did many things..as some of you have been there you know what there is to do but one of my things from 'MY BUCKET LIST" was to get as many national parks stamps that i could get in hawaii and i ended up with 10 so i was happy.....we spent lots of time snorkeling-eating-talking-traveling around the island -hiking-volcano's-watching turtles-just enjoying being together...

after sylvina and dan left there were just four of us left chris and sam lar and i then we continued exploring the big island some more as we moved to hawi for three days after which we moved on to the hilo area...there will be more about hilo at a later day and maybe even some more pictures...

WE"RE HOME

ok so we've been gone almost a month...oh my a lot has happened since we were gone...we have seen lots done lots eaten lots and had a good time...this is to let anyone checking in on our blog that we are home and arrived safe and sound...not it is time to get caught up around the homestead..so there will be more later and hope to include some pictures...time to enjoy fall...

ALOHA

YO TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY >>> the time has come for the long awaited trip to hawaii ...we are all packed and ready to go just waiting till it is time...tomorrow we will spend the night at sister chris's because they live closer to the airport and we need to be there at 5AM ugh...the plane leaves or is suppose to at 6 on friday..arrive in hawaii at 5;15 pm there time so it will be a long day and we go thru several time changes... we are not taking the lap-top with us so don't look for anything on the blog till around sept 10..who knows on some rainy day we may just find ourselves in a library doing e-mail but that isn't the plan...we have a long list of things to do and see..the main objective is just to go and enjoy the family with lots of fun in the sun...aloha

POLITICS

can you believe that lar is getting involved in politics??? just one more volunteer thing to do...in our small town the republicians have been running things their way or wanting to anyway...and it is about time they took a look at the town and did something for the town instead of their own agendas...so there is a coup going on to over run the already excisting republician party and form another one..so lar is running to be on the committee in our district..he has spent many an hour painting theese signs (oh i've helped a wee bit) and we have gone to many meeting to get things going...as we have heard that in tompkins there has never been one party trying to get rid of people in that party this way...so i guess someone has to be first...the signs have got to be up before we leave due to the primary is a coupe of days after we return and there just wouldn't be enough time for the signs to be up and people to see them...