The countdown begins...

One day last week, I spent the afternoon going through photos...

 

Of this guy...

 

 

You know him...

 

 

Yes, it's Tony!

 

Mindy asked me to dig out his photo box

(I was a photographer, not a scrapbooker.

We had a million photos, just no organization)

 

What fun to take that trip down memory lane!

 

The countdown to the wedding (I think it's ten days now) starts NOW!

 

 

 

 

It runs in the family?

Remember a few posts back when I shared this photo...

 

I said, "I forgot what it was like to have a boy or better yet, a boy who climbs."

 

Mindy asked me to get out Tony's photos so she could display some of them at the wedding reception.

 

I found this...

 

 

Yes, that's Tony.  Yes, that is our fridge.  Yes, there is a belt around it.

 

We had to belt the fridge to keep Tony from opening it and feeding all the food inside to the dogs...

 

It worked! 

 

BUT it enabled him to climb up the fridge.  That's where I kept the really good stuff...

 

I wonder why I started to go gray so early...

Rest in Peace, Linda Lou

Yesterday I lost my best friend, my care taker, my therapist...

 

My dog, Linda Lou.

 

She took with her a huge piece of my heart. 

 

We had a beautiful love story which lasted the entire 8½  years we had together. 

 

I'll share it in a few days.

 

For now, I'll just sit back with my memories and my tears.

 

Rest in peace, my precious friend.  I'll find you again one day!

 

Linda Lou Manfred

 

11/26/2005 - 4/5/2015

Old times...

Today I was going through some old CD's, looking for something. 

 I didn't find what I wanted, but wanted what I found.

For five years running, Mark, Andy, Tony and I took a week long houseboat trip on the

St. Lawrence River. 

We booked the boat for the same week in September. 

 I found the disk with photos from our first trip in 2001. 

 This was one of those rare photos with all four of us...

 

 

Such great memories!