Posted on 02/11/2008 6:01:38 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
Mr. B is worth losing sleep over but I hate you have to get up early on a work day.
Woot!
Thanks, my!
Something is wrong with the tranny!
see these? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
LOL
If money could talk it would say goodbye!
*sigh*
You must have missed more than the punch line.
Not messing with you. Really.
Some folks never learn...
HEE hee!
;0)
Thanks, Sand, for the history of the USS R-12 (SS-89)
(((HUGS))) back to ya!!
You have one cute baby!!
Forewarned!!, they become teenagers!!/LOL!!
Ah well...
Such is life.
Mr B sure does alot for me..
It’s the least I can do!
Rollie things don’t work well on carpet..
After the green, green early summer....That’s awful.
Big galoot..
Their enthusiasm is boundless.
Sigh...
Man, when it rains it pours, and in the dead of winter its freezing rain.
If you look up at the itty, bitty top just over the CT line, about in the middle, just to the left of "Longmeadow," is Agawam, MA .. my hometown. In the summer, the highways and curvy little country roads from there to the coast between eastern CT and western RI bear the echos of thousands of miles of my tire tracks and the beaches remember my hundreds of washed away footprints in the sand ... aah, sweet memories. I love that New England coast because I'm familiar with it, but really all New England shore areas are very delicious.
Down at the bottom is a place I dearly loved ..Black Point .. family rented cottages there when we were youngsters .. remember a couple of summer vacations, and the sense memory of the smell of a dark brown tanning brew, Amertan, tartan logo. I would know it if I smelled it today, but it's been off the market for decades. Isn't it weird how I can't remember what I did 3 mos. ago, but I remember those little trivial things like fragrances from my childhood?
A stone's throw away from New London, and strangely not shown on the maps, is the historic Mystic Seaport, a really neat and quaint place.
Looks like it could be in Maine, eh .. Ms B .. ?
Across the channel from Naval installation in New London, is Groton, regularly used interchangeably with New London, which is how its official website identifies it, as the home of the US Navy's sub base, but Groton is also connected with the business of New London as that's where Electric Boat, manufacturer/shipbuilder of the subs has a major shipbuilding location, still employing thousands in the area (though there have been thousands cut from their workforce).
And, of course, there's the Coast Guard Academy, also in New London, training home of our great Coasties.
We spent a couple of summer vacations in cottages at the Cape in MA, but my fondest memories of the beaches of my childhood and young adulthood are in CT and RI .. and all place I know I wouldn't even recognized today:
Connecticut
Black Point Beach Club, Niantic
Hammonasett Beach, Madison
Rocky Neck Beach, East Lyme
And of dozens of dozens of carefree, frolicking days and nights, Misquamicut Beach, Westerly, RI
And my hangout, nearly every summer weekend, The Andrea Hotel at Misquamicut Beach .. a hole in the wall then that's NOTHING like it is today ... but ooooh, the memories . . ;)
Thanks so much, lauren, for the chance to remember many happy days.
Big shambling galoot!
It’s only 1 day...
Too bad you can’t bank sleep ...
I’d for sure be overdrawn.
Thanks PROCON,some of our grandchildren.I got married as a teenager.Bad to the bone:)
Safe trip.
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