HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY ARON REDMOND SERMAN

We love you and you make us smile.

Ha ha ha I took this new header picture on the last day of February. 

That would be the 29th! Not the 28th.

My camera did not recognize the 29th!

 GO AHEAD AND GUESS.........If you saw Aron's face book picture you might think scrapple (even spell check does not know what scrapple is - to funny).  For those of you who do not know what scrapple is - this is not it. This is for sausage. Kyle has decided he wanted to make homemade sausage. This is the casing the sausage will go in. First he had to soak it in water. All I could think of was " the Boe boys would love this"!

 Kyle and Joe bought this Hobart grinder sometime ago.I am unclear on when. I think Ebay may have something to do with it. Here Kyle is grinding and mixing all the meets he has been stocking up on all winter.

The local butchers all know him by name and watch out for him.

 Here he is putting the sausage casing on the arm so that the meat feeds into the casing.

 He bought enough for 40 lbs and he did not use it all. Live and learn. And that we are doing.

 We need two hands and some muscle so I stepped back and took the camera. I did do this later and it does take some muscle! But man do my men enjoy playing with food!

 See how this works.......watch the video!

We had some today for breakfast. It was very good.

 

I love my men!

 Kyle and I are not big "Valentines" people.

We love the day but it is our day and we have them 24-7-365

This year the youth group was having a fun raiser dinner so we went to that.

Dinner was very good and desserts were great too!

 The entertainment were "THE REMINDERS"

They are mostly local boys, good ole Sussex County folk.

From L-R we have John Thompson, Ed Shockley and Kevin Short.

John (standing) wrote El Shaddai & Sanctuary.

It was amazing to sit and listen to his story and to have him right there at Wesley Church!

 Check out their website

                                                            http://www.thereminders.net/

I know you will be pleased I snook a little video for your listening privilege.

How this ended on the bottom I don't know. But Aron took this picture

for us as we walked out the door to dinner.

Mom's 83rd birthday

 HAPPY 83rd BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!

We had a great time Saturday celebrating Mom's 83 years.

Of course it probably wasn't quite as exciting as I make it sound.

It was very quiet and enjoyable. Except I (I don't take full blame) forgot to put away the dumplings.

That did not go over to well the next morning.

It was just Katie, mom, Kyle, me, Wade, Jake, Emily & Luke.

We tried to skyp Pattie and Scott.

THAT was funny, not very good but funny!

 Mom had the rocking chair reserved for a snow storm but settled for this.

She loved all her gifts, flowers and cards, she loves to get mail from all of you.

She had so many phone calls she sounded a little horse that night.

(she is fine)

 The video is a result of being a Bell. I still have not figured out why it keeps

 repeating over and over. I did not know it was going.

This is what I was trying to do.

Note the balloon and the kuzzie.

Nancy Lillian Slaight

Born in Geneseo NY 2/11/1929

She is a daughter, sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, wife, neighbor, friend to all.

She went to college, worked for social services, married, raised a family, was a full time housewife,

cook, laundry chief bottle washer as dad would say. All with only one vehicles which dad took to work. 

In Michigan dad got a company car, until then it was one. In Delaware she took her first job out of the house sense she married. She assisted a handicap boy and loved it, later she worked in a carpet store and drove a handicap bus and loved it. (was it us) She cared for her in laws after she brought them into her home.  Finally she enjoyed getting the empty nest. Grandchildren arrived again she was "in the roll". Then she enjoyed retirement  with dad. Then as we all dread, she sat everyday by his bedside while he fought to live. She continues to live each day sense with love, laughter and many many  memories.

To get to my point. I gave mom a card that said she was an angel. She said that was not true.

I beg to differ.

She is always there, wrapping her arms around you, whether it is a smile, a hug, a laugh

or even the unhappy side.

She is the angel. She has her wings around our backs.

I love you mom.

 February brings around the Lewes Polar Bear swim & run.

Aron chose to run this year with some good buddies.

I think the paper said there were 700 runners. I did not see

that many but it was a pretty day to walk the boardwalk and watch the race.

 They ran north from the Avenue down the boardwalk 

and around a neighborhood then back. Three of the front row came in first 3.

Most were high school kids. Just saying......

 Aron is in the gray/black with the water pack.

Always the boyscout:)

 And here he comes........

 Superbowl was fun. Katie came for the adult group.

 Emily, Jake, Chad and Aron were here for the youth side.

 Yummy yummy in the tummy. Luke had fun too.

this was one of the ice sculptures at the Polar Bear run. It was so warm they were melting fast. I have been fussing with the blog sight today so I am not sure how this will play out. The next one will be about a very special lady in my life.

 We went to Rehoboth Beach Monday for lunch and to walk the boardwalk.

(This is looking south of the Avenue)

I love the board walk off season. It is so peaceful and everything is so blue!

Today we saw that they were replenishing the beach sand.

They suck it out from the ocean floor and spread it on the beach.

 It really was quite amazing to watch. If I remember right I think the old

beach ended between these pipes somewhere. I know it was not very wide.

This tug boat was driving right up to the sand and then it would back up, turn around and start again.

It only went so so far and turned around again. Back and forth back and forth.

I was taking pictures of the ocean floor.

 This is all was happening north of the Avenue. You can see the sand coming out of the pipe (below).

It was very windy and cold so we did not really hear a lot of noise.

 I think the cage probably caught big pieces of treasures!

 These poles by the bulldozer thingie marked where he would turn around.

Again back and forth they would all go.

And in the end, if we don't get a major nor eastern this winter,

we will have a beautiful new wider beach to fill with lots and lots of people.

But until then I think we will go a few more times this year to enjoy it all by ourselves.

Note: I tried to post this with more pictures and I guess it was to many because it wouldn't let me. 

So the post before this is the rest of this one. The big tricycle thing was amazing to watch. It was past the bulldozer, past the tugboat. The man said it was mapping the ocean floor.

I hope you enjoyed this post, I did taking the pictures.