Now THIS is a BEAR HUG!

Laura Jo playing NAP TIME...

Laura Jo loves to play "nap time"....She won't take one....but will "play-like" all day long...Yesterday Papa Jo/aka Cha Chow was her latest victim.....too cute! She enjoyed putting "make-up" on him as well......

There's a Jewel in Heaven today!

Well, here she is ..... My first memories of her.....This was back in 2006.......I went every Tuesdays to see this crazy lady and we talked about golf a lot, among other important things....So she posed with my clubs and sent it to her brothers, telling them she had taken up the game.....What a cut up she was......That's why we got along so well....So I guess she had a tee time today and couldn't miss it.....Hit 'em long and straight, my dear friend!

When I went to visit her at her house back then, she would sit in her chair and put on her make up.....I would sit and watch with awe.....This woman could not see a thing, but would put her eye make up on better than most professionals.....and then her blush, lipstick...the works.....it was an amazing thing to watch....I learned a thing or two.....The blind leading the blonde.....

Jewel never could see how cute I was.....so Jewel, if you are looking down here.....SEE.....it's ME......Save me a seat on your front porch and we will have some sweet tea and cake and cookies and all the things you could never have down here.....

I love you my dear sweet friend.....

It was Maine-ly a BLAST!

We had SIX STRAIGHT DAYS of LOBSTER! So So Good....Now my butter belly is paying the price.....!


It was all about the lobster.....Are you kidding me....This guy was walking around with a bucket full of 'em......

We were led to take many paths....amazing!


The golf was crazy fun....wore us out though, cause they make you WALK the course...imagine that....we actually had to exercise a bit while we were there.....Shaun, our pro, was there and played with us a bit....the fog made it a tad difficult, but didn't slow us down at all....we just hit into it....Can't tell you how many balls I lost on this trip!....Crazy!

The flowers in Maine were incredible...they were everywhere!

This is where we stayed....We stayed in the LOFT, which was the upstairs part of this house....very small, quaint.....it was our Maine stay.....this is our view from our windows......not bad......