japan

here is a link to some pictures of the trip to japan, only a couple of the wedding. i will work on getting the rest of the trip in order for your viewing pleasure

http://web.mac.com/barbarabean/iWeb/Site/japan.html

i think you'll need to type it all in.

hope it works!!

try this one

http://web.mac.com/barbarabean/iWeb/Site/the wedding.html

we're baaack

i left my camera in japan. casey is sending it to me, but until then i can't post any pictures. so sad.

we had a great time in japan. eating way too much food, but it was so yummy. i think a gained a hundred pounds.

the wedding was beautiful, the kareoke was lots of fun, i didn't sing and i cant get the "barbie girl" song out of my head. still.... it's been over a week..... a couple of casey's friends (males) sang it and it was a riot.

chieko's parents are lovely. they served us tea and lots of traditional japanese food. the most unusual, (to me anyway) was something that looked like custard, was the consistancy of custard, but it had shrimp and mushrooms in it. i am used to custard being sweet, desserty, so it seemed a little odd to me. and chrysanthemums, did i spell that right? unusual, but not unpleasant. a spicyish flavor. and so many other things, miso soup, fruit, vegetables, sweet bean desserty things, i cant remember if i took a picture of the food, but i am sure someone did.

jesse and devin spent the night at chieko's parents' and also had a traditional japanese breakfast, which chieko's mom had told them, she could guarantee would be good quality, but she could not guarantee they would like it. again, i cant remember exactly what they had, i think fish, rice..... devin told me chiekos mom also had yogurt and bananas on hand, which she always has when casey comes for a visit.

and it snowed in niigata, where chieko's parents live, while we were there.

i will wait for my camera to arrive so that i can have pictures to go with stories of our action packed days and nights.

packing

this is pile of stuff to be packed and taken to japan. it IS all going into that red suitcase, (not the chair). i am hoping there will still be room for my clothes.

jesse is a junior firefighter

and he looks kinda creepy. he is such a good sport to let me take goofy pictures of him. he knows they are going to be posted.

cheryl and i went to the dennis fire station to be tested as bone marrow donors, they were giving our firehats. got one for jesse.




there is ice on the bog this morning. it is mighty cold right now. and it was probably a little to dark for this picture, but what can i do???

harvest time

dad took a couple of pictures of the flooded bog. they harvested the cranberries yesterday. there is still a big truck parked across the street (full of cranberries), but all of the other equipment is gone.





now this is, what i thought, a very funny bumper sticker. ok ....now think about it. IT IS NOT A REFERENCE TO TOTO!!!!!!!



HELL....HELL....
going to hell in a handbasket
now laugh!
hahahahahah
hahahahahahha
ok

who is that ???

it's jesse..
and his lunch.
chicken on a bulky roll (again, he has requested tuna more often)
pickles
cucumbers with italian dressing
vanilla yogurt
boiled eggs (2)
pears
cheetos
doritos
chocolate covered cream puffs (4)
reese's peanut butter cups (last ones from halloween, now he must eat kit kats or plain hersheys)
water
orange gatorade

that's a lotta food

buy 3 get 9.....i said 9....free

guess what we are bringing to everyone in japan??




yup...sweatshirts (not made in the u.s.a....oops), but they say cape cod!!

november 6th

today in jesse's lunch box....barbecued chicken on a bulky roll, salad, grapes, vanilla yogurt, crackers and cheese, cheetos, chips, (he has requested more snacks, he has usually eaten most everything by lunchtime and has nothing for an afternoon snack), boiled egg, peanut butter cups, water and gatorade....oh and i added a banana after i took this picture.



a lovely square serving plate from sydenstricker for the in laws.



and a flower that mostly survived all the wind from noel

gramma got a flu shot

...and a fine bruise

after the storm

so here are some pictures taken this morning,
our driveway covered with leaves.



the screened porch (minus the screens) took the screens out so they wouldn't get damaged.. more leaves




poor little gnome with her foot broken off




and this is one of those windchimes made from silverware..



this is the knife from the windchime, at least in landed in the porch and didn't go flying around killing anyone. crazy stuff happens...watch csi

storm

i tried to to take some storm pictures..... but i am just no good. it was rainy and windy and it was just too icky (for me anyway) to be outside.
we did take a ride to sandy neck when the power went out (around 2:45)
you really cant see the water in the picture, but



look at me. this from just rolling down the window. sand in my hair, my eyes, not to mention the car.

babies, babies

4 baby showers since august... and 3 of them, within the last 6 weeks. only one baby so far though. a girl....kaela

this is one of the little sweaters i have been making and part of the blanky. i have run out of yarn for the second time since starting all these little projects. second time the yarn is not available locally since it has been discontinued. now i wait and wait for mr. u.p.s. to bring me more from the "knitting wharehouse", which, so far, has been able to send me what i need.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!

this is what we are giving out this year. real, full size candy bars..... too bad we NEVER get any trick or treaters anymore. more for me....

clock

our automic clock doesn't know that we aren't changing the time until NEXT weekend. when i got up yesterday morning, it had already reset the time. now i am going to be late late late for everything this week. i will not schedule a thing.

jesse's lunch 10/29

this is jesse's lunch today. he has salad with no onions or tomatoes (with italian dressing), tuna in a bowl, cheese sticks, yogurt, applesauce (which he probably won't eat), a boiled egg (which he will probably eat on the way to work), granola bars, potato sticks and one small package of skittles and one mini hershey's with almonds. missing from the picture.....a bottle of orange gatorade and a bottle of water.





and just in case you didn't notice in the previous post..... i have our suitcases on the front porch.... they have been in the cellar since february and i was afraid they might smell musty. i washed/wiped them down and left them to air out. we don't want the in-laws thinking casey's parents smell funny. or any funnier than we actually do.

10/28

gnomes and punkins





some plants out front





and the finished driveway



and just in case you are curious..... the fish house IS still standing

fish house

i actually took these pictures this past summer.
this is the old fish house at the canal. i haven't been back to see if it is still standing.

new grass

the new grass is here, the new grass is here!!!! growing so fast, (sigh)
it has it's first mowing the other day.

yaz

dad and i went to mohegan sun on sunday to see some of the 1967 red sox team. they are his heroes. here are a couple of pictures of dad (he was so excited, he kept moving) with his all time favorite, YAZ. dad brought some the newspapers he had saved from 1967, showed them to the guys. they were just tickled.

popeye arm

i got my hair cut last week. i took picture of my shadow to show you my short hair. look at how fat my arm looks, not that it is thin by any means!!! but it looks like popeye. my other arm is carrying my shipping boxes and mail, it is not square.




and these are pictures of the cute little blades of grass, already growing in less than a week. it has been quite windy here this week, but i can't walk on the "lawn" yet to get that bucket.



dad was busy busy digging up some hosta from the old yard as well as some young trees that he got for his birthday last july. see 'em.



more new grass

grass

this is the grass being sprayed on last week.
..






and a closer look at the front walkway

retaining wall

here are all those giant rocks, placed neatly along the side yard to form an awesome retaining wall.






and the back deck.

some landscaping

i don't know if you can see him/her or not, but there is a fox on the bog. click on the picture.



and finally some landscaping, sorta. last week was busy, busy with the front wall and walkway, as well as spreading loam. piles of mulch are waiting to be spread out front. this week its sprinklers and then grass. that will probably be it for a while. energy and $$ are low. anybody wanna buy our old house???? deerjumpproperties.com