I can hardly believe the summer is almost over! The last time I was here, I was telling you all about our family vacation week at our Oyster Haven Vrbo house in early July. Since then, my husband and I have been staying at his childhood home a few miles away from our place, going to daily Mass, visiting with relatives from both of our families who are still in the area, and working hard at Oyster Haven on Saturday turnover days (making up the beds, hauling dirty linens to the laundromat, etc.). We try to spend as much time out on the boat as we can through the week--which hasn't been as much as we'd like, however, because it's been an unusually cold and rainy summer up here. But we grab our opportunities when we can.
My husband and I both turned 65 this summer and got signed up for Medicare. So there's that. And he's now officially completely retired. He took an early retirement package from his airline back in 2020, when most flights were being cancelled due to you-know-what; but now, there will be no more paychecks and frugal living has begun in earnest!
But there IS a bonus to getting old: if your Medicare plan has Silver Sneakers, that gets you into most gyms for free! (My husband is at the gym right now, enjoying his free membership, but I'm sitting here blogging. What is wrong with this picture?!)
My husband and I also celebrated our 50th anniversary a few days ago. Not our wedding anniversary. The anniversary of the day he asked me to go steady with him back in 1973, when we were just a pair of bright-eyed 15-year-old kids. Little did he know just how steady we were going to go! (I wrote a post about this more than 10 years ago, if you're interested.)
I just ordered this sign to put up outside our rental property. It's from an Etsy shop, and I tell you, Etsy is just the best. You can find anything your little heart desires on there!
On Sunday, we will be heading to VA for a week. Our triplet grandchildren are turning six soon, and we don't want to miss their big birthday celebration. Plus, we've been away for a long time, and I need to reconnect with everyone there and spend a little time in my own house, with my own things about me. (Mary Kate Danaher, anyone? Do you recognize that line from The Quite Man, the best John Wayne movie ever?)
Hey...What just happened?!?!?
Ha ha--I've been gone for about 45 minutes now, because thinking about The Quiet Man and how much I absolutely love it got me going down all kinds of rabbit holes, watching YouTube interviews with Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne and clips from the movie...but I'm back.
Now where was I?
Well, I think perhaps the rest of this post will be a bit of a photo dump, with some shots I've taken that show what the lake life up here is like. Not too shabby, readers. Not too shabby at all.
50 years later, and there's still no one I'd rather go steady with. As the song goes, we're still having' fun, and he's still the one.
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| I think my husband's cousin, who took this picture, used some sort of filter on it, because we look kind of dewy-skinned. But I'll take it. |
Okay, well, hopefully I'll be back before too long. Until then, I hope you are having a blessed summer!
