I’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

My uncle JoeAsh, Issoudun France 1918

I hope I haven’t lost all my blogger friends. I have spent almost every waking minute for the last two weeks, sorting and putting photos in albums. I had some in old albums that were about to fall apart so I had to take those photos out and put them in new albums. I have been collecting photo albums from garage sales over the last few years and have some really nice ones now full of great family photos. I have to say I got frustrated some times because there are so many that have nothing written on the back so I had to guess or compare to figure out who they are. I scanned the oldest ones and put them in an iPhoto album on my laptop. I had several boxes full of loose pictures from my moms stuff and my grandmothers things. If you have photos loose like me don’t let them get out of hand. Now days we down load from digital cameras into the computers but there are those old wonderful pictures that are turning a little yellow from age that need to be saved.

Oh Praise the Lord, it finally rained. We had so many days of triple digits, it was making me sick. I sat on my screened porch most of the day. It was such a nice cloudy day after a pretty good rain.
I am glad Fall is finally here for tv’s sake. I love “Flipping Out” on Bravo and I like the “Real Housewives of___” This season it is DC and the RH of New Jersey is finishing. I really like the RH of New York. You know when you have reality shows so much more is funny when people are not acting from a script. Bravo has the best reality shows and I thoroughly enjoy watching them. HGTV also has some very enjoyable shows. I like seeing what I could do with my house if I could walk, lift or stand up for awhile. Bad back, ugh! Design Star will finish Sunday evening.
Another exciting event is that my son and his family are moving into a fantastic house. It was built probably in the 50s, is Polynesian design and is wonderful. Take a peek at several pictures.

Enclosed back yard

Front of house

Front entrance court yard

The great room or den

They call it the Brick house estate because of all the different rooms that have actual real red brick floors.