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Way back when, for a half-dozen or so years starting at age 14 (1977), I'd spend time in the summers w/fambily (cousins, aunts, sometimes an uncle or two) at my paternal grandmothers's place back East: Tyrone Farm in Pomfret, CT. Those were great times. I returned in 1999 for granny's memorial service. This let me start to get to know some of these cousins as adults. (I'd kept in touch w/the CA ones, so this wasn't such a big deal w/them.) Then in 2001, I returned to Tyrone to spend a week+ w/Uncle B & Aunt M, who ended up with and at the place. No cousins were around for that visit. In 2006, I went back for my cousin K's wedding and again saw various fambily members. Another trip in 2007 w/cuz D let me hang out some w/UncB & AuntM.
This past week I got to see some of the cousins even more. Getting there early - and staying late - meant I could (and did) take part in wedding prep, as well as decompression afterwards. It'd be great to have a fambily reunion someday in another few years, where hopefully everyone would be there. In the meantime, I do want to return to the East Coast before too long. In particular, I've never been to Washington D.C. and'd lurv to go...and now have a place to stay (thx to cuz S and his hubby R) and folks who can really show me around. Whee-zoom! For now though, I'm happy to be back home in Portland-town (OR).
One thing I realized as I drove the hour from Providence, RI to the "Quiet Corner," as NE CT now styles itself (it's a Feature, not a Bug ;-), is that my love and appreciation for Greenergy - abundant in the PacNW - quite possibly began whilst visit New England way back when. The views there of green punctuated w/ponds and streams and coastal waters (and the odd old barn) reminds me very much of my happy meanderings and wanderings around OR and WA.
Here's a link to pics from this past week's adventures: Clickie HERE.
This past week I got to see some of the cousins even more. Getting there early - and staying late - meant I could (and did) take part in wedding prep, as well as decompression afterwards. It'd be great to have a fambily reunion someday in another few years, where hopefully everyone would be there. In the meantime, I do want to return to the East Coast before too long. In particular, I've never been to Washington D.C. and'd lurv to go...and now have a place to stay (thx to cuz S and his hubby R) and folks who can really show me around. Whee-zoom! For now though, I'm happy to be back home in Portland-town (OR).
One thing I realized as I drove the hour from Providence, RI to the "Quiet Corner," as NE CT now styles itself (it's a Feature, not a Bug ;-), is that my love and appreciation for Greenergy - abundant in the PacNW - quite possibly began whilst visit New England way back when. The views there of green punctuated w/ponds and streams and coastal waters (and the odd old barn) reminds me very much of my happy meanderings and wanderings around OR and WA.
Here's a link to pics from this past week's adventures: Clickie HERE.
