Sunday-Sandy Run-Shopping-Snow

On a whim today we decided to have lunch at the club and then go to the new outlet mall in Limerick PA. We lucked out and got to the club in time for Sunday brunch - lots of yummy food. After a relatively fast lunch, we stopped in the pro shop and then headed off to Limerick. What a novel idea - put a big outlet mall at the base of 2 nuclear reactors! As you can see from the pictures, we were right there by them. Good thing no alarms went off while we were there.

Greg scored quite a bit there, mainly because there was Adidas, Nike, Reebok, Lids, and other sporting goods apparel stores. I got 2 pairs of jeans and we picked up some cereal bowls to match the pfaltzgraf dishes we put away over the holidays. We are bringing them back up to the kitchen because they offered more flexibility than the ones we were using.

Anyways, it was a lot of fun and I was thinking how lucky we are that Greg still wants to spend the day with his parents even though he is 15. We got home with plenty of daylight left and kitty, Greg and I spent some time outside in the snow. Yes, that is snow on the ground. We got about 3-4 inches on Friday and a layer of ice on top. It makes it hard for kitty to walk as she isn't heavy enough to crunch through the ice layer.

Have to include a Sydney and Crosby picture too. They love to sleep curled up in each other's paws. It's so cute!

Painting

This post is mainly for Casey. The wallpaper in the family room is finally gone. After a little over a week of work we have finally taken our family room out of the early 90's wallpaper period. The walls are a beautiful sage green that look perfect with the sofa and carpeting. We still have to repaint the ceiling but that can wait.

At the same time, Larry decided to paint the lower half of the dining room. I picked out the paint color and I have to admit it looks fantastic. It is a blue-green paint that picks up the color of the rug in there. I can't believe that he finally agreed to paint that room as he has always liked the color white. Having this project list for him for the year has been a very good idea. It's amazing how much he accomplishes when he has a list posted. Next up is to have the trees taken care of that were damaged by the winter storm. Hopefully we won't lose the willow tree.

Finally, we try so hard to keep cats off of the kitchen counter. It's just taking a little longer for the kittens to follow the rules.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today would have been your 79th birthday Mom. You probably would have said that birthdays aren't such an event these days and it just means more wrinkles. But to me you were always such a beautiful person, inside and out. I miss you so much and there were so many things unsaid and undone.

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