Papa’s World – Health is our goal.

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Twenty plus years ago –

Sherry and I started on a journey to age as healthily as we could into and through our senior years.

This brought a new diet and an awareness of not eating certain foods and drinks!

For me – I GAVE UP MILK! ( I drank a lot of milk since I was a toddler)

Along with that – SODA’S!

I also drank a lot of them since I was a teenager.

Then I cut way back on dairy and meats.

Red meat, I seldom have –

Instead, I eat chicken, pork, and fish in moderate amounts.

I try not to eat deep-fried.

And I cut way down on sweets –

Milk chocolate is my downfall!

But other candy, cakes, and pies –

I seldom eat those.

Sherry is my source of information and keeps an eye on me.

I do not like hard liquor or wine.

I will drink a glass of beer every couple of weeks.

I drink mostly ice water.

I am not a prude, but a SENIOR!

And I recognize I am not up to all that as I used to be!

As a SENIOR, you have more aches and pains –

You require rest but also a form of exercise.

Mine is walking!

Recently, we took our daughter and two granddaughters to Saint Augustine.

In the four days there –

I walked 7000 plus steps a day.

I also know when to get off my feet if only for a couple of minutes.

Taking short rests helps me with a problem I have with my right leg.

Just knowing I will be okay and just keep going with short rests is all part of my senior years.

TRUE – but I KEEP TRYING!!!!!

Sherry – THE GOOD WITCH – and “JUST TOM”!

I used to dress up for Halloween –

But I am okay with going as “JUST TOM”!

Living life one day at a time –

Is good enough for me.

PAPA talking to two tourists after helping to make the runway path for –

THE PROTECTION OF SEA TURTLES on Ocean Isle Beach.

Here, I explain as best I can the “WHY” of being a volunteer for this organization.

We are now into our fourth season of volunteering.

This means from mid-May to mid-October-

Almost every day on the beach!

This gives us a purpose in our senior years and a goal to get out and walk every day.

Senior living one day at a time.

Plus as you get older –

Communicating with others is important-

Keeping your mind as sharp as you can.

Taking trips with old friends.

Meeting up with old friends!

Keeping a balanced lifestyle.

Always looking to reset yourselves.

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Papa’s World – Four seasons-life in the Carolinas.

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Moving to the South –

First in 1999 to NVA-

While it was a bit warmer-

We still had lots of ICE AND SNOW!

This was one of the major snowstorms we had while living in NVA!

Truth be –

We had more snow in storms there than in the entire 50 years we lived in WNY and NWPA!

We lived just behind the DULLES AIRPORT –

And they recorded 48 inches of snow in two days!

So – when the Pandemic hit –

The 401K dropped, and the housing market took off!

In 2020 – WE SOLD –

And moved temporarily to North Myrtle Beach!

We leased a condo for nine months until our new home was completed-

In Cameron Woods Community, N.C.

Just seven miles from the S.C. border in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

We are near two beaches, and twice in five years we have experienced snow for a day!

But – most of the time it is warm – bright sunshine- breezy –

And comfortable to walk, and if too hot-

Head for the beaches and breezes.

Here is OIB and the bridge to the beach –

The same can be said for Sunset Beach and Holden Beach.

We are close to all three.

We also walk the beaches in the Winter months as long as it is not windy.

The sand stings your face when the wind blows hard.

There are times in the Winter months – Spring and Fall –

That we golf with friends.

The four seasons here allow us, at times, to do just that!

I can say that we have found our forever home and area to live in.

At least it works for us.

Staying healthy in our advancing senior years.

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We have FOUR SEASONS – minimal snow and ice –

Beaches and golf –

A way of life that suits us.

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Papa’s World – Spending time together.

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Our senior years are spent doing as many things together as we can.

Volunteering – here we are with some other folks from the Protection of Sea Turtles.

This day, a group of us volunteered for trash pickup along the streets of Ocean Isle Beach.

We spent about three hours on our assigned streets-

Then we, along with a hundred other volunteers-

Met back at the park, where they provided lunch and drinks for us.

We sat here on the stage and ate and talked.

From mid May to mid-October –

We are on the beach in some manner for the Protection of Sea Turrles.

This will be our fourth season of volunteering.

We also volunteer for our church for the Brunswick County Food Pantry.

This involves the second Saturday of every month –

Where our church operates the county food pantry.

We are there between 8am and 8:30 am.

We have 20 to 30 volunteers –

And I am usually assigned to direct parking.

Sherry works inside at produce, meat, eggs, or as a shopper who fills the cart with the supplies each family gets.

As a shopper, she wheels the cart outside to be loaded into the designated car.

Loaders perform this duty, and then she returns inside for her next order.

On the other assignments –

She works at an item storage spot and fills the order as the shopper wheels the cart by.

Outside- a volunteer directs the car to me-

I greet them and ask a few questions, and then instruct them to a spot and “BACK” in.

Many people have trouble backing into a spot –

And I help them.

I give them a number that they show on their dashboard-

And if they are unable to walk over to the sign-in station-

I give them a colored sticker that is placed on the windshield.

We have roving volunteers who will then come to the car and get them signed in.

I tell them when to go and sign in, and that someone will tell them when to go and pick up.

They remain in their cars and are loaded by volunteers.

We handle about 100 to 130 cars during the three hours we are there.

Most are seniors, and many can not walk far.

Many are families, and the total number of people runs between 250 and 275.

This is a service much needed in our county.

Other churches do the remaining Saturdays of the month-

And we are starting on Friday – 6pm to 8pm.

There are so many families.

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Together we walk the beach.

There are certain things that I do not do-

She has card-making, group chats, and women’s games.

But we golf together and with others.

We shop, and I drive.

We explore together –

We watch TV together.

We visit family and friends together.

Since this day – 6-25-1982 –

Our wedding day –

We have been together.

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Papa’s World – SENIOR LIVING!

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SENIOR LIVING – It seems that later in life,

The “COUCH” gets more inviting as the day goes by! LOL

We have calendars –

To keep track of appointments-

Volunteer work –

Errands and shopping.

Meet-ups with friends –

“How did we ever find time to work”?

The children you raised have moved on!

The grandkids are also ready to take flight-

Be it sports, activities, jobs, or everyday life.

You become a source of –

“How are you? When can we see you?

Then the vacations come and go –

That “COUCH” becomes more comfortable.

I drink my coffee early in the morning –

One cup –

Before dawn.

I read the online newspaper –

I do not watch or listen to cable news.

Facebook – I unfollow those who try to change your minds –

With endless postings.

Being a senior, life becomes too short to listen to all the nonsense.

I am registered as INDEPENDENT!

I cast my vote and then move on.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO DWELL ON WHAT YOU CAN NOT CHANGE, OTHER THAN VOTING!

Being a SENIOR –

We try to give back as much as we can.

Helping others –

Less fortunate.

VOLUNTEERING –

Church – family and friends.

SENIOR LIVING –

Near the beach – playing some golf –

And that couch when watching TV together-

Until early bedtime.

It all starts over for me before the dawn of the day.

That first cup of coffee to start the day –

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Papa’s World – Our life near the beaches!

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Sitting on our front porch!

One of the criteria I wanted –

Was a place to sit in the shade all day long.

So – we got it with this front porch!

This was in July 2021 when we moved in, and you can see the home directly across the street-

Was not completed yet!

We were one of the first to move into this section of the development.

Perhaps halfway through the total process, which took a couple more years to finish.

So, we pretty much watched the construction of more than half the development.

As of now, two lots remain –

Both on either side of the model and they are working on completing them.

Our community is just a couple of miles as the crow flies from the beaches of –

Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach!

LOL – maybe some truth in this!!!!

We are also thirty minutes from North Myrtle Beach, Holden Beach, and Oak Island Beach.

So, we are in the mix as to going to a different beach if we want!

It is here where we spend most of our time –

This is a view of the patio out back with a SOLO FIRE PIT!

I am not much into fire pits, but we do use them when family comes to stay.

We have now furnished this patio –

And replaced the screens on the lanai with EZEE BREEZE-

Water and pollen can not come in!

Sitting in the lanai during a rainstorm is comforting!

But – it also has a lot of sun back here, so I prefer the covered front porch and the glider!

We back up against a protected wildlife site with very tall trees.

Oak and pine.

This will not be cut down and is full of birds.

We have landscaped the yard –

Planting palm trees and crepe myrtles.

The edging is full of stones to prevent weeds.

This extends to all around the house.

This is now the view of the front porch – glider where I sit-

And the stones inside the edging!

It is here that I can sit in the shade and watch the folks go by, walking or driving.

The crepe myrtle and the stones –

Before the stones replaced the mulch completely around the house.

All the landscaping is complete.

Today, we drive ten minutes, park, we have a season pass, and walk on the beach.

We don’t go into the water to swim –

We are seniors and, beyond that,

Youthfully exercise.

But we do walk in the surf!

From the air –

OCEAN ISLE BEACH – the bottom is where we have a parking pass.

We are blessed in our senior years to live near here.

A dream we both had all our lives.

Here we are in the park before you cross over the causeway to SUNSET BEACH –

And along the ICW!

Summertime, we come here to sit under the huge live oak trees in the shade.

We people watch and also the boats going up and down the ICW!

We also go over the causeway bridge to Sunset Beach and walk the beach.

WE ARE LIVING OUR LIFE NEAR THE BEACHES!

SENIORS – RETIREMENT – BEACHES and GOLF!

Golfing with longtime dear friends – Buck and Cindy!

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Papa’s World – My first work day!

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6-5-1967 – The day I drove to the American Olean Tile Company in Olean, New York.

I had to be there at 8:00 AM.

I was instructed to park in the large parking lot-

And go to the front entrance off the main street, across from ROXY’S BAR AND GRILL!

Go down the steps, and there was a small office with a partially opened window!

There would be a woman whose name was Shirley-

And tell her I was there to start work and meet with HR –

Whose name was Jim.

There were three or four chairs against a wall –

Directly across from that window, and she told me to take a seat!

Soon, two other college students came in –

They were there to work the summer and were students at Saint Bonaventure University.

Soon – one by one – we were called into the HR office and interviewed.

Those two were there for Summer jobs –

I was there to work full-time as I had a wife and baby son to support.

I was one week out of H.S.!

I had been in a terrible accident in September of 1966.

I spent 51 days in the hospital-

Not knowing if I would ever walk again.

This day, I was healed – reclassified for the draft with a family.

This was the first day of what would become a 47 1/2 year journey –

Working all those years for the same company in two different states.

Little did I know it would turn into a lifetime job.

This was the era of long-haired hippies.

But at that time, it was not me.

A supervisor by the name of Jim came to the HR office.

We would be working for him in what was called THE SERVICE GANG-DEPARTMENT!

He led us down another set of steps –

Turned left and went through a set of swinging doors.

HEAT – we felt it right away as it rushed at our faces.

We came to a large ramp and turned right!

He explained this was KILN NUMBER ONE!

It was well over one hundred degrees.

It was long – maybe 200 feet straight to the LAB.

People actually were working –

Sweat bands on their heads –

A contraption that shook sand and tile out of saggers into wooden trays.

The men had to place the saggers on the machine, and one had to take off the wooden trays and stack the tile on a skid.

They were fast – their t-shirts soaked with sweat and a woman –

Was there to grade the tile.

Fork trucks zoomed in and out –

Noise was deafening –

We were given earplugs and safety glasses.

The men had access to salt pills because they sweated so much.

It was one crew on this kiln. The other two kilns had their own crews.

It was also the hardest and highest-paid jobs in the entire planet.

They worked all week and by Friday, from eleven to noon –

Had their quota for the week and were done early!

Across the street to ROXY’S BAR AND GRILL, THEY WOULD GO!

They made at least three times what I would make and maybe even four times.

But it was hard, and we would be trained to fill in for illness or vacations.

I never had to go out there.

Instead, I was trained in the Pressroom to be a SAGGER BOY!

We continued past the Kiln and the lab –

Through a large open doorway with sliding metal safety doors in case of fire.

All inside entrances in the entire factory –

The first and second levels had these huge sliding fire doors.

As soon as we passed the fire doors –

Was the locker room for the men.

In here, we were assigned a numbered locker –

Mine was number 10!

There were no women who worked in-

SERVICE DEPARTMENT-BODY PREP –

At that time-

But if they had – their locker rooms would have been Kiln- Mounting room or Pressroom.

There was a shower room –

And a separate restroom with urinals and stalls for bathroom use.

A large round sink with a step on the pedal for water to wash hands.

A half-dozen men could stand around it!

I was about to start an unexpected journey that lasted 47 1/2 years.

Working for the same company in dozens of jobs.

A journey that I can honestly say –

I enjoyed – met hundreds of fine folks and even transferred to NVA to work at a half dozen locations.

When we came out of the Men’s Room, we turned right and down a slight ramp-

This was where Jim had a stand-up desk, and Herb, the other supervisor, had his desk.

This was BODY PREP, where the time clock was on the outside boiler room wall.

It was loud here with all the machinery –

But a lot cooler than the Kiln and Mounting room.

It was here that, after a few weeks –

There was an opening on the second shift-

Since the other two were college students and I was the youngest in the plant-

No one bid on that job, and I was assigned to the second shift!

It was TEN-HOUR SHIFTS!

I would earn two hours overtime each day, plus shift premium.

I had walked into a job where I could support my wife and baby.

We moved out of my parents’ home to an apartment over the Western Auto (now a library).

I worked that second shift for 6 1/2 years.

I made good money with the overtime.

The opening came on days, a

As I bid in the same department.

Here I am – my senior year – Number 65 –

Shortly before my car accident and about nine months before I started work at A.O.T.C.

That first day was the beginning of a career, and I have never looked back –

And never thought I missed other opportunities.

It was here in 1980-81 that I met Sherry.

We were both divorced –

We were married on June 25th. 1982.

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Papa’s World – Me – Healthy? My doctor says so!

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For the past year, I have been limited in just how far I can walk!

I have this pain in my lower right leg calf after walking 1/8 mile.

All the tests – scans – ultrasounds –

Blood tests –

The whole ten yards!

I have a partial blockage in that leg!

In two places – the first being on the inside of the knee-

And then again in the groin area!

BUT – not enough to have an invasive procedure!

At the consultation –

I expressed my concerns about walking.

When I tried walking a 1/4 mile!

I was limping badly with pain in the calf of my right leg.

And I was starting to favor my left leg, causing soreness in my hip joint!

My concern is –

I did not want the pain to progress to being constant because I was walking!

“NOT SO,” he explained.

You want to walk like you did before.

The calcified artery will not break loose –

And is less than 50% –

If you walk,

There is a chance the blood flow will establish another way.

If not –

Then it might continue over time to become more blocked –

(DIET CAN DO WONDERS)!

But just rest for a few minutes –

Until it stops hurting( I am going to carry a beach chair over my shoulder)!

Then proceed to walk –

As much and as far as I can!

All my other tests have come back excellent.

He said I am the healthiest patient he has seen.

This has become very good news, and I can let the stress go!

My heart – neck arteries – borderline diabetic – my blood pressure-

Weight loss, mental well-being are all good.

Now I am not worried that walking will make it worse.

Just stop and rest,

And then continue.

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She is a certified health technician.

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I am 77 years old –

Suffered a WIDOW MAKER HEART ATTACK IN 2013-

And today I am testing regularly, and to have the vascular doctor tell me –

“YOU ARE THE HEALTHIEST PATIENT I HAVE SEEN” !!

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Papa’s World – The memories of life!

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The long walkway of the Ocean Isle Beach community center-

This entrance ends up on the beach at the VOLLEYBALL NET!

To the right, about a half mile is the OIB pier!

We often come here and park across the street.

The community center has restrooms –

And an easy walk to the pier or East to the groin area.

The “GROIN” is a 900-foot granite boulder wall –

Installed a couple of years ago to help protect the beach and erosion that has claimed parts of streets one and two.

This beach is where Sherry and I volunteer for the Protection of Sea Turtles.

We are now in our fourth season.

This year –

Our granddaughter Taylor –

Has applied to be an intern and will spend two weeks with us and intern.

One or both of us has to be with her at all times!

In the middle –

Taylor with her parents –

Marcus and Tammy.

This young lady tried out and made the basketball team in her freshman year –

And is of the writing –

Trying out for the soccer team.

She sings in church –

Has ridden horses since she was five or six years old.

Taylor’s first time on a horse!

Today – Taylor rides almost every week.

She works at two barns –

Cleaning stalls and grooming horses!

She is as tall as Sherry –

And her lowest grade was a B+, and the rest –

A or A+!

A remarkable young lady who also plays violin and has taught herself to play guitar!

THE MEMORIES OF LIFE!

Sharry and Papa-

My grade school buddy and his wife, Bob and Pam.

We spent some time in Florida and met up with them at Disney Springs.

Today, they are leasing a home some nine miles away.

They have taken a year off from RVING!

We have many memories together growing up in Eldred, Pa.

Good friends over the decades of life!

THE MEMORIES OF LIFE!

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The quiet corner of our house in Brambleton, Va.

Two days later, after a major snowstorm!

By now –

I think you all know I hate snow-ice –

That is one reason we moved to OIB –

On the borders of N.C. and S.C.

This is the home we live in now in Cameron Woods Community,

Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

We are happy with the weather here-

It can become hot –

Then we will go for ten minutes to the beach!

Our ten-minute drive brings us to the Causeway Bridge-

Onto Ocean Isle Beach!

THE MEMORIES OF LIFE!

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Papa’s World – LIFE – a lot of living!

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This is Maddy on her father’s back!

She is now 26 years old and an Enviromental researcher –

She is an inspiration – a little girl who has turned into a fine young lady!

LIFE – A LOT OF LIVING!

One of the many conferences we attended for Juice Plus.

Two a year – East Coast and West Coast.

Health and Nutrition.

LIFE- A LOT OF LIVING!

Sherry and Cindy-

At VANISH just outside of Leesburg, Va.

Happy times – cool surroundings!

LIFE- A LOT OF LIVING!

The Kinzua via-duct – bridge –

Built in the 1800s,

And-

At one time the highest railroad bridge in the country.

It is located just outside of Mount Jewett, Pa., where Sherry grew up.

Half was destroyed when a Tornado came through!

Today, it is a state park with a viewing platform at the end.

A thick see-through floor –

Allows you to look straight down 300 plus feet!

LIFE- A LOT OF LIVING!

Ella, who is 23 years old.

We called her “TINY” as she was growing up!

Today – she is 5’10” tall!

She has graduated from college and is an elementary school physical education teacher.

The kids love her.

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We were at the Brambleton Town Center outside the library –

When a terrible wind-rainstorm hit.

The car was rocking –

And we told Cassidy and Taylor to get down on the floor behind our seats.

It all happened so fast.

Across the street in the park –

Huge trees came down.

There was nowhere to go, and we just huddled and rode it out!

The scariest we have ever encountered!

LIFE- A LOT OF LIVING!

Today – Taylor and Cassidy with their mother, Tammy.

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Papa’s World – FORTY FOUR YEARS – time flys!

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June 25th. 1982- on our wedding day.

Our life together started with two sets of children.

This was the second marriage for both of us.

Sherry had two young daughters –

Debby – the oldest – is 7 or 8 years old.

And Tammy is 4 years old.

My two boys were Troy – the oldest – 14 or 15 years old –

And the youngest – Shawn – is 9 or 10 years old.

The boys stayed with their mother while the girls stayed with Sherry.

We lived way up at the end of the East Windfall Road.

About ten miles to the school and just over the hill from Olean, N.Y.

But we were in the far corner of the Portville school district.

The driveway was 1/10th of a mile long.

Good for sled riding in the winter –

But the rest of the time, I had to mow it up and down both sides.

That first year was with a gas push mower, and then we bought a ride mower.

All told, over an acre of lawn to mow, up and down, and part on a side hill.

That first year- it would take me three days – rest one day –

And start over again.

Way up back – we had a fire pit.

There were only two neighbors –

One we could see across the valley and hill-

And one at the very end of the driveway.

There was another family up the hill out of sight-

They had a couple of children who were friends of the girls.

Other than that, country living.

Any events or church –

Was at least a ten-mile drive.

The girls became involved in sports, and I would pick up the boys every other weekend.

Which was a 18 mile drive one way.

Money was scarce-

So we planned day outings to parks – state parks –

Packing food –

Looking back, we did not seem to care that we had no money –

We made the best of everything!

We were busy with work, the kids, church, and the church youth group.

All four were in the youth group.

We took camping trips with the youth group.

A canoe trip down the Alleghany River –

The boys went, but the girls did not go.

Church became a big part of our lives.

Many activities for us as a family since the divorce-

We had each other, and to this day-

We still have church in our lives and each other.

We lived out in the country for about five years.

But – we yearned to get closer to the church and the school and to my sons.

We found a house in Pleasant Acres Drive just three miles from the school.

We were still in the Portville school district.

We were also about three miles from the church.

My oldest son had graduated from high school.

But we still did things as a family with my youngest son.

Here is where we met our decades-old friends –

The McBrides – Buck and Cindy!

Cindy, Buck, Sherry, and Papa.

We were neighbors until mid 90s, they moved to the Wilmington, N.C. area.

We stayed in touch –

We visited them in N.C. several times.

Then we started touring the country with them.

Eventually out of the country.

During these times and after –

We transferred to NVA!

The kids had all graduated and from college.

We were empty nesters.

Within two years –

Both girls had followed us to NVA.

The boys stayed in NWPA.

Debby had married, and they had Maddy –

Less than a year old.

They all stayed with us until they found their own homes.

We still visited Buck and Cindy and were still friends with Dottie and Jim

Both from Eldred and I had known them before Sherry.

To the left- Debbie, a friend of Jim and Dottie.

Then Cindy and Sherry- Buck and Papa.

Cindy and Buck knew Jim and Dottie before us.

But I grew up with Jim and Dottie in Eldred, Pa.

Jim and Dottie met Debbie after they moved to Va. Beach area.

Sherry – Jim and I all worked for American Olean Tile-Dal Tile.

We are all still to this day –

Get together at one anothers homes.

Jim and Dottie have since retired and moved to the northeastern coast of N.C.

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FORTY FOUR YEARS LATER!

Our road is well-traveled.

We have since bought, sold, and built houses.

We now live in SENC-

Ocean Isle Beach – Cameron Woods Community.

Close to the border of S.C.

WE ARE 38 miles from Buck and Cindy-

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Papa’s World – A birthday wish for “CINDY”!

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Papa, Buck, Cindy, and Sherry on one of our many golfing adventures!

Back in the late 80s and into the mid 90s-

We were neighbors on Pleasant Acres Drive in Portville, N.Y.

They moved to the Wilmington, N.C., area and eventually to Magnolia Greens just outside Leland, N.C.

We have remained friends and in touch all these years!

In these years, we also moved to the NVA area and retired there.

The Pandemic came, and we sold our home and moved to Cameron Woods Community, about 35 miles from them.

In all these years, we traveled the World with them on vacations!

Here we are at a brewery just outside Asheville, N.C.

Sharing a laugh!

Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Canada, and all over the USA!

Laughing – golfing (OHAU) –

The Redwoods in California –

And exploring San Francisco,

Reno and walking the streets of Philadelphia.

So many memories!

On one of our golf scrambles!

We try to get together as often as we can to golf.

It is always a fun time!

The times we have spent together and all the laughs.

Friends for decades and decades!

TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY FOR CINDY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR FRIEND!

May the sun rise and set on this day –

Love,

Appreciation – laughter – toasting –

Another chapter in your life begins.

We are truly fond of all our good times –

I KNOW THERE IS ANOTHER HOLE IN ONE IN YOUR FUTURE –

I hope I am there to see it!

ALMOST for you, dear friend!

Until we golf again –

Until we see another show-

Until we sit down and have a toast-

Until another laugh and a hug-

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CINDY!

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Papa’s World – Looking back in pictures!

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Late June – 1982 – Sherry – on our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic!

We were married on a Friday evening.

We celebrated at a local disco bar dance place with family!

The next day, we drove to Toronto, Canada, and stayed overnight.

Sunday morning, we flew out of Toronto to the Dominican Republic, to Jack Tar Village.

Everyone on the flight were Candianians.

And we were the only people from the USA!

This was a all exclusive resort –

And we departed the plane directly onto the pavement, and it was well over 100 degrees!

We checked in and were driven to our villa by golf cart.

We had to have our pictures taken and put into a holder to hang around our necks.

This way we could show ID and eat and drink!

Until then, we could drink bottled water and sodas.

I took this picture while we were waiting-

It seemed like hours, but it was less than that.

Upon arrival –

There were armed military personnel all over the place.

We wondered what we had gotten ourselves into.

I learned on that trip what FREEDOM is all about,

Living in the USA!

Later, we found out that the President of the Dominican Republic had committed suicide!!!!

WOW – nervous we were –

But we were never bothered and had a great week.

Enjoying the resort and taking several excursions into the large city –

But only two or three-storied buildings.

There was a large soccer- baseball stadium nearby-

At night, we could hear and see the lights in the dark sky.

On our wedding day – June 25th. 1982.

Shopping – there was no change exchanged –

If it were $19.25, you paid $20.00 and received no change!

We had to exchange our money.

We were taken into the small city.

All of us! (MAYBE A DOZEN COUPLES)

We went into an upscale women’s clothing store.

We waited in line at the entrance to a closed door in the back.

I SWEAR WE WERE IN A MOVIE WITH HUMPHRY BOGART!

A ceiling fan overhead –

A small peep door opened, and a pair of eyes we could see.

Spanish was spoken, and then the door opened.

There were about a dozen of us who had not made the money exchange before leaving Canada.

Inside was a man sitting at the far end of the room at a green felt table.

A single light hung over it.

He sat there with a metal box on the table.

He had on a long-sleeved white shirt-

The biceps had an arm band type thing and he had this visor on.

On either side of him were armed guards.

Our guide was named SANTANA!

He would translate, and he said not to say anything!

That man handled the entire money exchange.

I do not know if he got a commission or not –

But everyone was quiet, and it was all done in minutes.

We were escorted out of the room and across the shop to the outside.

Here we were swamped by dozens of old ladies hawking all sorts of goods!

He ushered us straight through them to the bus, and we pulled away!

NEVER HAVE WE EXPIERENCED ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN!

Feeding cake to one another –

AND NO – WE DID NOT SMASH IT INTO OUR MOUTHS!

Sanatana knew Sherry and me were from the USA because of our accents.

We became friendly,

And he talked to us all the time.

He asked where we lived,

And we said NYS!

He asked WHERE?

We said Portville near Olean in WNY!

He said – “OH – RIGHT OFF RTE. 17!!!!!”

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT I ASKED?

He told us for years he had driven semi-tractors from Cleveland to Albany!

Going right past the exits to OLEAN, NY!

After that,

He took us everywhere in his bus,

And we got to trust him.

On one trip, he took us and three other couples to a DICO-CLUB that was closed for the day.

He had a key-

It was shaped like a huge SOMBERO!

He opened it up –

Turned on the lights and the music.

We had the whole place to ourselves.

He asked if we wanted beer,

And it was in quart bottles!

Needless to say, we did not drink it all!

We had many more adventures while there on our honeymoon.

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Papa’s World – Life together – senior living!

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Our life officially started together on 6-25-1982!

We were young – early 30’s and both single but divorced!

Those early years were times that we shall always cherish.

Nothing “WILD” but living life and enjoying it!

The early years –

Hardly any money –

Working to survive –

But – wonderful in the sense we had each other.

Raising two sets of children –

Her two daughters and my two boys.

Taking long weekend trips and packing lunches – dinners to save on money.

Doing things that had no cost and were free!

Then the sports began, and with that –

Trips back and forth.

All four had sports and whatever came with it!

It seemed an endless life of travel!

But- the memories of all that are priceless –

I would not change a thing and wish we could do it again!

Along our path of marriage –

We have made lifelong friends –

DECADES!

Dottie – from the same town as me.

Decades of friendships!

Cindy – our neighbor back in WNY!

Decades later – still friends!

Bob and Pam –

My grade school friend and his wife.

We are still in contact and get together.

Diane and Sherry.

Our new neighbor in Cameron Woods Community is now a friend.

She has a cottage back in WNY where we lived nearby!

Here are Jimmy and Buck.

Outside of grade school –

My two oldest friends.

We still get together.

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Papa’s World – Generations – family – memories!

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LOL-W HAT LANDLINE???? LOL!!!!!

We have not had a landline in twenty years!

But- I do remember when I was younger –

WE HAD A PARTY LINE!

Growing up in WPA in the little town of Eldred, Pa.

The phone – if you picked it up-

You just might hear someone talking!

That was the “PARTY LINE”!

I still remember my parents’ home phone number and my sisters who lived right next door!

GENERATIONS – FAMILY and FRIENDS!

Papa- Sherry, Cindy, and Buck.

This is on one of our trips we took together.

We went to Asheville, N.C. –

And we visited the SIERRA NEVEDA BREWERY and TAPROOM!

Here we went on a tour of the Brewery –

Had a beer tasting and ended up in the restaurant on site for a drink and some food.

It was a first for us to see the process of brewing a national beer from the beginning to the end.

FRIENDS – very important for us.

The list of brews on tap at the brewery!

Sherry and Cindy are on a tour of the brewery.

I would go back someday just to see if any changes were made.

The next part of our GENERATIONS –

Is our Family!

The Myers –

Our daughter Debby –

Her husband Mike –

Sarah, Ella, Maddy, and her boyfriend, Kendrick.

Debby is the oldest daughter, and the three girls are the oldest grandchildren.

FAMILY is very important to us.

We spend time back and forth-

And they come to see us!

We often meet the youngest grandchildren halfway.

Here, we are dropping them off for their parents half way.

Cassidy, Bode, Sherry, Papa, and Taylor!

Taylor will come down for two weeks and be an intern-

For the Protection of Sea Turtles at OIB!

She remembered a presentation about the program two years ago.

Called Sherry and wanted an application!

All on her own!

She filled it out and also sent her grades as a Freshman in H.S. which was required.

Her lowest grade was a B+ – the rest were A+ or A.

The one condition is that we have to be with her 100% of the time when she is involved!

FAMILY IS IMPORTANT TO US!

Marcus – Bode and Tammy –

Our youngest daughter.

It will be strange during those two weeks not having the other two here with us.

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Papa’s World – A day in the life of a SENIOR!

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As we neared our early beginnings of “SENIOR” life –

We did the research and selected a supplement to check off all the requirements –

Of a Healthy Lifestyle.

That was over twenty years ago!

We needed to get more fruits, vegetables, and berries into our diets!

That to us was a hard thing to do –

Being a SENIOR, you just do not consume food as much as you used to!

Our lives changed in those early years.

We became more health-conscious.

Walking for me and running for Sherry!

Our research led us to a Supplement that crossed the “T’S” –

And “DOTTED” the “I’S”.

Juice Plus had all the research published in Journals on health.

Proving to do what was claimed.

It was easy to add to our busy lifestyles as SENIORS!

There were CAPSULES – 30 nutrients in a capsule that went immediately into the bloodstream.

There were GUMMIES – Fruit – Vegetable and Berries –

That you ate and did the same as the CAPSULES!

And then there were several drinks –

FRENCH VANILLA – DUTCH CHOCOLATE and the above SUPER POWER!

All tasted good and became for me –

A way to curb my appetite while getting the NUTRIENTS into my bloodstream.

We have continued this supplement for over twenty years.

Taking it with us wherever we travel in the world.

It has become a staple in our SENIOR YEARS of living.

Volunteering – The Protection of Sea Turtles –

From mid-May to early October each year.

We are now in our fourth season.

Our seniors’ lives are active –

And to have a source of Nutrients to take every day –

Has become a staple in our lives!

Today – I am 77 years old – Sherry will be 77 years old.

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Papa’s World – Adventures from the past.

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Yes – I consider the above statement to be TRUE!

Our lives together –

Have been full of raising children, buying and selling houses-

Living in five states, including childhood.

Working for one Company for a combined 79 1/2 years.

Volunteering wherever we have lived.

Living our dream now near beaches, golf, and warm weather!

It has been a gift that we are blessed to have had this life.

The twin granddaughters –

When they were little –

Cassidy and Taylor.

In the early years, we had them all the time while the parents worked until school.

I would wish upon a star to reclaim some of these times –

To once more have them little in our life again.

Today, they have grown up –

Freshmen in H.S.

Taylor – Cassidy and their mother, Tammy.

The Swedish genes from Sherry –

Run in the family!

Adventures from the past!

The night Ella played against Maddy in college soccer.

Both were captains for their teams.

A memory I shall always cherish.

We followed both of them from travel league to H.S. to college soccer for so many years!

ADVENTURES FROM THE PAST!

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FRIENDS – for decades and decades!

Cindy – Dottie and Sherry.

Oh, how they have laughed, and the smiles are true to this day.

So many adventures and good times.

ADVENTURES FROM THE PAST!

Sarah – now a Freshman at college.

The youngest of the three oldest granddaughters.

So artistic – so outgoing and full of laughter and humor.

She is a gift to us.

ADVENTURES FROM THE PAST!

BODE – The only grandson in the family with five granddaughters.

Into all sports –

A big fan of the Buffalo Bills – The Washington Capitals –

And the Redskins!

Growing up –

Going into middle school.

ADVENTURES FROM THE PAST!

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Papa’s World – Memories with past pictures!

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My memory here is the twins –

Taylor and Cassidy –

We’re helping Papa clean up the leaves from our yard in Brambleton, Va.

I am thinking they were perhaps 2 to 3 years old.

If only we could turn back time and once again enjoy these precious moments!

MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

Sherry with the two oldest granddaughters –

Maddy and Ella!

I love the way Maddy has her arm around her grandma –

And how she looks at her face.

Sweet little Ella –

We called her “TINY” –

Today she stands about 5’10” –

No longer the “LITTLE” one growing up!

MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

My two oldest longtime friends –

Bobby – we went to grade school and graduated together.

Jimmy on the right –

We played softball together in the mid 70’s and beyond –

I was at his wedding to Dottie –

We took our kids to the beach when they were young.

We worked together at AOTC-Dal-TILE-

And to this day, we still get together a couple of times a year.

MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

The day Tammy and Marcus were married.

Opportunity came in 1999 –

We transferred to Northern Virginia for Dal-Tile.

That one door opened, and we chose to walk through!

Setting up a future that would not exist today had we not made the choice.

Tammy – who had graduated from college and was living near Rochester, N.Y.

Decided to quit her job and follow us down to NVA!

In doing so –

She met Marcus – they were married, and today we have –

TAYLOR – CASSIDY and BODE!

All because that door-opportunity opened and we went through!

Today – Taylor – Csssidy and Tammy-

Today – Marcus – Bode and Tammy.

We made that choice in 1999, and Tammy followed us to NVA!

Because of that, we have Marcus as our son-in-law and the three grandkids!

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MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

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Sarah and Maddy-

Maddy has graduated from college with a Eviromental Science degree-

And works out of Fredericksburg, Va –

For a large nationwide environmental firm.

Sarah is a Freshman in college and a very gifted Graphic Design Artist.

These are two of our oldest granddaughters!

MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

The four of us have been friends since the late 80s.

Papa- Sherry – Cindy and Buck.

Here we are at the MGM at National Harbor- Washington, D.C.

We have traveled the country and the world exploring while on vacation.

We now live about 35 miles from them and still see one another often.

MEMORIES WITH PAST PICTURES!

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Papa’s World – For Generations- past and future!

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In my blog today, I hope to share the past for the Generations who are to follow!

We blended two families back on 6-25-1982!

My family is almost all gone from the ones I grew up.

The family photos were all destroyed by someone outside the family!

That leaves me with capturing everything present and what I sometimes find from other folks regarding my own family!

So – these blogs are JOURNALS –

Full of pictures, stories, facts, and places and people.

THIS IS FOR GENERATIONS – THE PAST TO THE FUTURE!

Years ago, when they were still growing up-

Bode – Cassidy – Taylor – Sarah – Ella and Maddy –

All six grandchildren!

This was at the Museum in Winchester, Va.

This is an actual Native American Canoe.

Today, ELLA and MADDY have graduated from college.

Sarah is a freshman in college.

Cassidy and Taylor are freshmen in H.S.

And Bode is going into Middle School.

Today – all six together at Mike and Debby’s home for pictures.

This is at Lake Holiday, Va.

This generation will produce the generations to come in the future.

This blog will help those to come to understand who we were.

THIS IS FOR GENERATIONS – THE PAST TO THE FUTURE!

Where we live close by –

An aerial view of the town park of Ocean Isle Beach, and an outdoor concert!

Free to the public from mid-May to the beginning of October.

First class bands with the Carolina Beach Music on the East Coast.

The other towns around us have the same, only on different days!

One of the perks of living here on the borders of S.C and N.C.

Group picture of the two families and us celebrating our 75th. birthdays at the beach in 2024.

This was our dream when we moved to the coast of N.C and S.C to have family visit.

This picture is –

THIS GENERATION FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE GENERATIONS!

Sherry and my motto for life.

Caring – giving – volunteering and maintaining friendships.

This is our own generation.

What we have passed on to our generation of children and grandchildren.

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Ella – when she was younger – running in the APPLE BLOSUM YOUTH RACE –

In Winchester, VA.

She would later go on to play soccer at Randolph College –

Becoming captain in her Sophomore year, before an injury in the final two years.

She carried on – playing part-time because of the injury.

But the little girl here –

Was the little girl who could and did make an impact on her college team.

THIS GENERATION FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE GENERATIONS!

Sarah, Ella, and Maddy.

The three 9oldest granddaughters.

The heirs of future Generations to come.

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Papa’s World – Cold – Winter – PUZZLE TIME!

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This past Winter, we had a major N.E. snow cyclone!

It started around 6:30 PM, and 15 inches later –

There it was!

This was RARE for this area –

Maybe once in 30 to 40 years!

But at least there was very little ice!

Since we do not own a snow shovel –

I used my leaf blower –

The snow was powder-like-

And after hours –

I cleared a path to the street for our car, which we backed into the garage.

And the sun came out, and the melt started right away.

We had strong winds during the storm, which came up the East Coast from the S.W.!

Parts of the grass were wind-swept bare –

And parts had two to three foot “DRIFTS” –

The driveway was part of those drifts!

Then my good friend “JIM” showed up with a snow shovel, and we cleaned the other half rather quickly.

Sherry concentrated on the end of the driveway, where melted snow turned to ice –

And clogged the drain to the street run off!

She freed that up as Jim, and I cleared the driveway.

By the end of the second day of sunshine-

The driveway and road were clear and free of snow and ice.

The hot sun – although maybe only 45 to 50 degrees outside –

The major difference is living here in the South.

Everything melts away within four to five days!

But – a side result of all this –

ARE PUZZLES!

I groan from the inside as Sherry finds them from the closets, cupboards, or thrift stores!

Here is the kicker-

I FIND MYSELF CONSTANTLY HOVERING AROUND THE TABLE, FINDING MATCHES!

It becomes addictive for me! LOL

Even finishing one up – breaking it apart-

Reboxing and dumping the new one out!

Finding the edges – and turning all those 300 pieces over.

And then, as habit is –

Sorting them out and separating them into colors and like pieces!

I AM OBSESIVE!

That is why I GROANED INSIDE when she put the first one out!

Some pieces are much like this! LOL-LOL-LOL!!!!

But – I must admit – it is good for the brain –

And something to do during the cold outside!

It is far from the snow we had back in NVA!

There, it took months to melt.

Less than a week later, the melt is complete.

Our plant sits on the inside window ledge-

Absorbing the sunshine from outdoors.

We are back to normal after a rare Northeastern snow blast cyclone that occurred mostly near the shoreline.

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COLD WINTER –

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Papa’s World – MEMORIES – LOOKING BACK!

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Trisha and Shawn – married – Shawn is my youngest son.

They have been down to visit us a couple of times.

It is a long drive from NWPA –

Hoping this year, they can make it down during the Sea Turtle hatching season!

MEMORIES – LOOKING BACK!

Here I take a photo of myself – Troy – Andrea – Sherry – Trisha – Shawn, and their daughter on the pier.

Troy is my oldest son, and Andrea is his partner.

Together – they have all been to visit-

FAMILY – MEMORIES – LOOKING BACK!

Andrea and Troy are on the pier at sunset with Sherry.

Hoping they come back down this summer!

FAMILY – MEMORIES LOOKING BACK!

Papa with two sons – Troy and Shawn!

FAMILY – MEMORIES LOOKING BACK!

We are making new MEMORIES each and every day!

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How we lived-

Where we came from and those who went before us!

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Papa’s World – A new day – past memories!

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LOL – However – I think there is a lot of “TRUTH” in this – Esp. for me!

Golfing for me is I hit that “ONE” shot that brings me back again and again.

I feel I am successful if I can hit my drives!

The feeling of connecting and seeing the flight of the ball down the middle-

Leaves me feeling good and ready for the next shot!

Par five – dog leg left over the pond to the green

An exceptional hole for me –

I am here in two-

My next shot ended up just to the fringe of the green to the right!

A rolled up chip shot and I putted for a par!

This does not happen often for me –

Most likely would have been a bogey or worse.

BUT – it is this part of golfing that brings me back time after time!

A NEW DAY WITH PAST MEMORIES!

Back in Brambleton at our home-

Every Easter we had an Easter Egg hunt for the grandkids!

Here – Bode is less than a year old, and now he is 11.

Maddie and Ella have graduated from college- Sarah is a Freshman in college-

And Taylor and Cassidy are Freshmen in H.S.

Today – missing from the group photo is Ella –

But the other five grandkids are there.

A NEW DAY WITH PAST MEMORIES!

The six grandchildren are with Ella here.

Life continues as we have into and beyond our senior years.

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Maddy – who came for a visit.

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Debby – oldest daughter in her Buffalo Bills Mafia clothing!

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Papa’s World – Life in the SLOW LANE!

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LOL – Yes – those early years are long gone!

Today, it is for us “THE MIDDLE LANE” for traveling!

To say the least, we hate traveling the I95 North to South corridor.

But – since we live on the borders of N.C. and S.C. –

And as far East and the seaboard as we can get-

It is a must route unless you are willing to add maybe three hours to your trip!

I mostly stay in the middle lane for a couple of reasons.

Ingress and Egress in the far right lane –

Makes it dangerous for me when traffic comes barreling onto the highway.

Plus, it seems this is where all the large trucks are, and I can not see beyond them.

So I stay in the middle lane and set my cruise control to 3 to 4 miles over the speed limit.

Maintaining that speed so traffic can pass me on the right or left.

If I see a long line behind me, I will move over –

But it seems like when I do that – next thing I know, someone is attempting to gain access onto my lane and brake time is applied!

So for the most part, I stay in the middle.

Being well into my SENIOR YEARS –

Going “FAST” is not an option for me.

I am not comfortable going with the “FLOW” sometimes 10 to 15 MPH over the speed limit!

Being older, my reactions are not what they used to be.

People are aggressive at those speeds –

And I have seen too many near misses or accidents that have happened.

THUS – I AM PART OF LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE and comfortable being here.

SENIOR THOUGHT FOR THE DAY! LOL

We run errands –

Be it appointments –

Shopping – I love going to the OUTLET MALL-

There is a Starbucks there .

An area outside where artificial grass, chairs, and palm trees –

A place to sip and watch people and guard Sherry’s ICE TEA!

She comes back every so often –

Sometimes with a package –

Takes a sip of tea and off again to one of the stores.

Me – I still am sipping that coffee from STARBUCKS!

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Back in the 80’s and 90’s.

Today, we are within a 35 mile rediace.

North Carolina – all are retired –

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Retired – Friends – over four decades.

Buck and Cindy –

We now live some 35 miles from them.

Get togethers – golfing, dinner, or lunches.

We have vacationed in the World with them.

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Papa’s World – Everyday life – Family and Friends!

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Ocean Isle Beach Causeway Bridge!

We live on the mainland close to this bridge.

In ten minutes, we will cross the bridge.

Our lives changed when we moved South.

We left friends and family behind.

Some friends have since moved down near us.

Family has been to visit numerous times, and we have made the trip back to see them often.

Which, before we sold our house, we said we would do.

The trip back up I95 is not one I cherish.

So we try to stay off it as much as we can.

But this area –

Close to three beaches, stores, and entertainment –

Is suited for us.

In the five years we have lived near here-

We have experienced two snow and ice storms.

Very rare for this area.

We have experienced one hurricane – Category 1!

I have doubts if we will stay for 2 or 3!

Time will tell.

But the sun and blue skies –

The warm weather –

The golf is just across the road, and there are 30 other courses nearby.

Entertainment – shows and acts –

Is just thirty to sixty minutes away.

Sipping coffee and tea on the ICW –

Volunteering for The Protection of Sea Turtles each summer.

Live bands are in concerts all around us for the summer months.

Festivals in the other months of the year.

The three youngest grandkids love to come and spend time with PAPA and MORMOR!

The three oldest have been here also.

Their lives have changed.

Two have graduated from college, and the youngest is in her first year of college.

But the bonds remain there.

My two sons and their families have been to visit us.

It is a long 16-hour drive for them.

FAMILY IS IMPORTANT TO US!

We now have past friends living five to forty-five minutes away.

Others, a couple of hours.

We get together and continue those friendships.

FRIENDS ARE IMPORTANT TO US!

In retirement, we have no schedule.

An afternoon sitting in the shade of Sunset Beach Park –

Reading and watching the boats traveling up and down the ICW!

Our dreams have come true in our senior years.

An early morning coffee and tea at the OIB marina-

And 59 Causeway bar and grill.

Watching the boats come in or just relaxing!

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Papa’s World – Early years in Eldred,Pa.

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LOL- I do keep lists of things, places, and appointments –

Simple reminders as I go through each day.

I can honestly say I LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME!

I spent the first 30 years of my life-

In a little town near the WNY border called Eldred in NWPA!

Small Town – maybe 800 inhabitants.

It was you know everyone, and everyone knew your parents and family!

The Eldred Boro Elementary School.

Right across from the town’s ball field.

Where we would go to watch the baseball teams play.

The first four years of school –

I went to a combination H.S. and Elementary school.

Grades one through twelve.

It was a good mile from my North Main Street home.

Sometimes I would walk the railroad tracks to the Barden Brook Creek and then cross the bridge –

And the main street and walk on the sidewalk to the school.

Then, in grade five, they opened this school, and I was in the first class to go there.

Fifth grade and Miss Cawley.

She ruled her classes with an iron fist.

She had also taught in the other H.S. – Elementary school.

Mr. Harrington was the school Principal and also taught sixth grade.

We had a combination gym and cafeteria.

It was in the gym that, while running from being tagged –

I was pushed and slammed into the wall, and broke my right arm!

It was also in this gym that stages were set up for school plays around the Holidays.

I played the Angel Gabriel!

NERVES abounded in those early years, as I was and am a horrible singer.

I also signed up and took drum lessons.

I was given two drumsticks and some sort of board to practice on!

Didn’t last long! LOL

It was here that instead of walking –

I rode my bike as I was used to that, having ridden the same path to the park to play!

I also walked to school, meeting up with friends along the way!

Later in life, I took my youngest son, Shawn –

To sign up for kindergarten,

Unknown to me –

On the way, he had picked up worms and stuffed them in his pocket.

To my surprise, he reached in and brought them out just before we were to meet the teacher in the lobby!

We made a quick exit and got rid of them, and I cleaned his hands off with my hankie!

All part of growing up in Eldred!

We lived in the valley of the Alleghany mountains(foothills)-

The Alleghany River ran through on its way through Pa. –

To NYS and back down again through to Pa. and eventually Pittsburgh, Pa.

I have canoed down that river twice.

The first time was with a group called the EXPLOYERS!

Between our Sophomore and Junior years in H.S.

While the girls of the Sophomore class went to the prom –

We went canoeing on the river.

My partner in my canoe was Bobby Goodman.

To this day, we remain good friends and play golf together.

The second time was with the church youth group –

I think we had fourteen youths and three adults!

Otto-Eldred High School, where I went seventh through twelfth grade and graduated.

We did not have a big class –

Somewhere over 100 kids.

Quite a few have passed away.

In my senior year –

After playing two football games-

I was in a car accident-

I spent 51 days in the hospital in traction.

I did not know if I would ever walk again.

I was in a wheelchair for months after being released.

I was reclassified for the draft –

The VIETNAM WAR was raging!

Then I went to crutches and to a cane.

I walked for my graduation.

One week after graduation –

I was hired at American Olean Tile Plant.

I was married with a small baby boy who was named Troy!

I ended up working for this company for 47 1/2 years.

I worked in Olean, N.Y. –

In 1999, I transferred to Alexandria, VA, near the Springfield Metro.

During my time in Olean, we were owned by National Gypsum.

!980 some I was divorced and met Sherry, who worked in Payroll.

We were married on 6-25-1982 – she had also divorced.

I had two sons, and she had two daughters.

All young!

We raised both sets, although the boys lived with their mother.

After they all were gone from the houses-

We both transferred to NVA!

She went to Chantilly –

And at this time, we were owned by Armstrong!

She managed two different locations – the last in Chantilly, across from the Dulles airport.

She then took the outside sales job encompassing NVA and some of WV.

By this time, we were owned by Mohawk.

I worked at four different locations.

We both retired with a combined 79 1/2 years of service to the same company!

My early years in Eldred, Pa.

A lot of memories – experiences that I would never trade away!

It seems like every year it floods –

But 1972 was the worst,

It reached the second floors of most homes –

We were lucky – we lived on North Main Street-

Which was higher and out of the flood waters.

Sherry – Papa – Pam, and my grade school buddy – BOBBY!

It has been a long road since those early years in Eldred, PA.

Looking back to the early years.

Memories of life as I recall it.

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Papa’s World – Small Town childhood- Eldred, Pa.

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LOL – Yes – that very well could be me!!!!!

My father could do almost anything as far as building, working on engines –

But not me – I just did not get those genes!

But – what I did get was a sense of curiosity –

Wonder – history – how did things happen?

I love nature and try to see the little things and the wonder of it all!

I remember being very young and thinking that this place I lived in was the World!

Where did that road go?

I also was always wondering about OUTER SPACE!

Buck Rogers – The day the Earth stood still!

Lost in Space and the Twilite Zone!

I love to read – and often thought I would love to discover the buried past.

SMALL TOWN CHILDHOOD – ELDRED, PA.

My sister Donna was 15 years older than me.

My brother Roger was 10 years older than me.

My brother Mike was almost 4 years younger than me.

My memories of Donna were mostly after she left and was married.

My brother Roger was my hero –

My brother Mike was my antagonist!

Growing up in my early years was the 50’s-

Since I was born in 1949.

My brother had a club in our cellar.

He and my father drew and painted Disney Characters on the drywall, and my dad built a bar.

He later found one of those bowling-type games –

Where were you rolling these wooden balls –

At the head was slanted and leather cups with holes –

The ball would jump the Bariers and either go into the hole for a score-

Or into a hole that let the balls come back down a chute to the bottom of the game.

The further up the holes, the higher the score you make.

I have no idea where he got his thing, but it was great playing it!

Later, he also bought a pool table, and my younger brother and I would play pool.

Eventually, when I was in my middle teens –

I would go to the POOL HALL down on Main Street.

It seemed like a lot of the older town men would go and play pool –

I would watch them endlessly!

Rock and Roll –

Leather jackets and turned-up collars were part of the late 50’s!

Rolled up sleeves – slicked back hair-

Blue jeans with rolled up bottoms and boots!

My era was the 60’s – mid to late.

The Vietnam War and our coaches telling us we may get drafted and go to war.

But the HIPPIE GENERATION was in.

Smoking cigarettes – I never did!

I remember kids who did not make the team for football.

Dances at the tennis courts in the ball park.

I belonged to what was known as “THE EXPLOYERS”!

It was like a next step up from the Boy Scouts!

It was organized by my classmates’ father.

We had maybe 20 to 25 of us.

Seventh to twelfth grade.

We are the group that organized those dances and provided the records for the music.

Ye – a record player was used with 45s.

Long hair was coming in – hippies were working for peace and to end the WAR!

MUSIC – THE BEATLES HIT AMERICA, and I remember standing in the lunch line –

At the Otto-Eldred H.S,. and a upperclassman was singing “I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND”!!!!

Today I am retired, and my hobby and pastime is writing blogs!

My reasons!

To leave a journal of our lives for future generations to see and read on just who we were and how we lived our lives.

And – to keep my memory sharp –

An exercise of the mind.

Writing down my past memories-

Recording my childhood and my adult life.

A MEMORY JOGGER is what I call it!

WHERE I GREW UP and MY FAMILY, of which most are now gone.

I enjoy life – with all its ups and downs!

At this stage –

Doctor appointments – Dentist – errands that we share together as little trips!

Make the most of them because one day it will only be one of us.

GIVE THANKS FOR EVERY DAY – YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHEN IT IS THE LAST!

These are but a few past memories of growing up in a little town in NWPA!

My two sons –

Troy on the left and Shawn on the right!

Both still live back near where I was raised in Eldred, Pa.

I have moved on from there –

But I hold the memories dear to my heart.

They have remained to continue our heritage there!

I hope you all like this blog on my early years.

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Papa’s World – More early years memories.

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LOL – Never thought of this, but most likely it would work!

In our backyard, to the right of the big red barn –

Sat a small chicken coop!

I remember my mother and father –

Had a partial log with the flat side up.

A CHOPPING BLOCK, they called it.

I was not that old –

Perhaps 4 to 6 years old?

My job, with the help of my mother,

Was to catch the chickens.

My dad had a hatchet and stood by the wooden block.

Gruesome is what I call it today –

But back then, it was just what you did!

We would bring the chicken over,

And he would grab it and then “WHACK”!

Off would go the head.

That was life back then.

MORE EARLY YEARS MEMORIES!

One time, I was washing my parents’ car in the driveway in the backyard in front of the big red barn.

I had a bucket, soap suds, and a sponge.

Now my brother Mike and I fought like dogs and cats!

He would pick and pick, and when I had enough –

He would run and scream at the top of his lungs!

This time, he picked up the water hose and turned it on me!!!

I was soaked, and I took off after him.

He ran into the house through the cellar door.

With me right behind him, he was screaming bloody murder.

There was linoleum on the floor.

And it was wet from the hose.

My feet hit that spot and went out from underneath me!

I came down on my left side and put my hand down to break the fall!

It broke the fall, but also my finger!

The one next to the pinky now lay sideways!

All because he squirted me with the water hose.

My mom walked me down the street to the doctor’s office!

Dr. Krall was his name.

In we went, and he took one look at it and said, ” Sit down “-

Close your eyes-

This is gonna hurt!

He grabbed it and in one swift motion –

Yanked it straight and back where it should be!

Then a splint and a cast!

I do not know where Mike went, but he stayed out of my sight for some time.

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Summertime was riding my bike down the street to the park.

Oftentimes, I was by myself.

I would ride all the way back to the Pavilion –

Lay my bike down on the Creek bank and go down and hunt for crabs and frogs!

It was not deep –

No more than perhaps a foot.

Right across from that side were paths leading up and into the woods.

I admit I was scared to go back in there.

I did not know where it went, and the trees were large, with ferns and bushes.

A couple of times, I did go over there and take a few steps back in!

But I would chicken out and go back to the other side.

Those early years – I would ride that bike all over town!

It had a closepin with a bubble gum card on the spokes.

It made the coolest noise as I rode it!

My favorite card back then-

THE DUKE BLUE DEVILS CARD!

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There was a creek called THE BARDEN BROOK that ran through town and down to the Alleghany River.

When I was in my early teens –

There was a swimming hole not too far up the brook –

Called”BABS” –

I always wondered if it stood for “BARE ASSED BEACH”!

Perhaps someone who reads this and is from the area knows!

I went there a couple of times and swam.

Today, I would not even think about it!

But back then, it was a cool place to go and cool off on hot summer days!

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Papa’s World – My thoughts on the early years!

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First thing in the morning –

My one cup of coffee to start my day!

I did not always drink coffee!

In those early years –

I drank a cup of tea with my grandma.

But she introduced me to what she called “COFFEE SOUP”!

She raised her family of 11 children –

After going through the DEEP DEPRESSION herself.

Being on the farm –

They harvest their own grain and wheat.

Raised their own livestock.

Chicken and eggs – goats – pigs – cattle-

Everything they needed to survive.

Out of all that came things to eat that you normally would not think of!

“COFFEE SOUP” was but one!

She would take a thick slice of homemade white bread.

While sizzling side pork bacon was in the skillet.

The smells were out of this world.

Coffee percolating – and a plate on the table with that thick slice of white bread.

She then would pour some coffee over the bread and some farm milk.

Cover that with lots of sugar and put the sliced pork on the plate.

I was in heaven –

But sadly –

Have never had it again since those early years!

“CRACKERS AND MILK AND SUGAR”!

Another of my grandmas’ treats that she would fix for me for lunch.

She would take everyday crackers and break them up in a bowl.

Then she would cover them with whole milk.

A sprinkle of sugar and I was all set.

Still to this day, I think of this –

But – since that time, I have never repeated it!

For dinner and leftovers all week –

She would make up this huge pot of “BEAN SOUP WITH HAM AND BACON”!

Again – thick slices of homemade white bread and butter.

Bean soup – this is one of the dinners we have in our home every so often.
Missing is the homemade white bread –

Well – sometimes Sherry makes it!

We usually have the leftover ham and bone for the bean soup!

Once a month, Sherry makes it for me.

She loves it also.

And yes- leftovers.

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And we both continue this practice to this day!

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My father would sit at the head of the table with the pancake griddle.

He would be making Pancakes or Salmon Patties.

My grandmother and mother were Irish Catholics.

He was of Northern Irish ancestry.

This would be on Friday nights –

And at that time –

IT WAS NO MEAT ON FRIDAYS AS CATHOLICS!

He would never eat the Pancakes or Salmon Patties.

Instead, he would have his TRADITIONAL OYSTER SOUP!

I am so happy I liked Pancakes and Salmon patties.

Just the look of the soup was enough to turn me away!

After my grandma passed away –

On Friday nights, we would travel to Olean, N.Y. –

Just across the NYS line.

DESTINATION – OLEAN MOOSE FISHFRY’S!

BEER BATTERED FISHFRIES!

Friday night FISHFRY’S at the Moose became a tradition in my later youth years growing up in Eldren, Pa.

And an extra treat for my brother Mike and me –

My parents would stay at the Moose with their friends-

And partied while we went to the movies –

Just by the Moose.

I remember seeing OLD YELLER! ( I think that was the name)

There were other movies, and we always got popcorn and a drink!

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Sherry and Papa –

Our wedding day – June 25th, 1982!

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Papa’s World – Remember When?

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LOL- I do have some memories of when I was in grade school and before.

We were playing “JACKS” on the front porch of our house on North Main Street-

Eldred, Pa.

I only remember one child who was there, but vaguely – there were others.

The conversation came up about “LASSIE,” which we all watched weekly!

I googled “LASSIE” and it ran from 1953 to 1973.

George Cleveland, who played “GRAMPS” for four years –

Died of a Heart Attack July 15th, 1957!

We discussed that while playing “JACKS”!

I would have been eight years old then!

I also remember having a CORN COB pipe.

I do not know where I got it –

But we had a very big red barn-garage in the back yard –

That the railroad tracks ran directly behind it!

It seemed so close that the barn would shake when a train came by.

My father would park his car inside on the wooden planks on the first floor.

There was a door directly in front of the car that opened out, and I would stand there and watch the train as it whizzed by!

To the right as you first entered –

Was a stairway to the second floor where my older brother had installed a basketball hoop!

Under those stairs open to view –

Was a old horse-drawn sleigh.

Black and one seat for two people.

I never knew who had this or why it was there.

I often wonder what became of it.

It most likely was from the 1800s.

Upstairs – the huge room with a wooden floor and the basketball hoop-

Was an open window –

I could stand there and look down the tracks toward the town and see the Whitehawk beef company.

Also, the rear of the Slavins Furniture store and all the neighbors’ houses to that store.

I remember taking cornsilk – dried out –

And putting it in that corncob pipe!

Lighting it and puffing away and blowing the smoke out that window.

I did not inhale – just puffed on that pipe.

That didn’t happen all that often, but just the thought of doing it and getting away –

Well, it was part of my growing up!

I think it was right around the time that I spoke of “LASSIE”!

LOL – just some humor!

I also remember “BLUE BERRY HILL”!

That is what we called the hill with the large TV ANTENAE directly across the street from our front porch.

That ANTENAE was huge – sitting on top of that hill.

I believe it is for a reception for the town for TV.

We used to walk down to Slavins Furniture store and ask if they had any cardboard boxes we could have.

North Main Street of Eldred.PA –

Had a large group of young kids when I was growing up.

We all played together.

Back then, the cardboard had wax on it.

We would break the boxes down that the stoves – refrigerators came shipped in.

You would sit down, grab the front, and bend it back toward you!

Then someone would push you, and down the hill you would go.

The hay-like grass was about a foot high –

And that waxed cardboard made it slick –

And you would slide down that hill, going faster and faster.

Holding the front of the cardboard back toward you –

Gave you some protection in running over bushes that had thorns on them.

If it was going too fast – I just bailed out!

Watching “LASSIE” and sliding down the hill on cardboard-

Was part of my youth growing up!

The other thing before I got my bicycle –

Was going up tos sawmill!

It was just three houses up from my home.

Later in my early teens –

My father bought a membership at Smethport-

My younger brother and I would go with him-

We would start off first, and then he and his friends played behind us!

Back to the Sawmill.

They had a huge sawdust pile-

And we would go there and dig a hole or tunnel in it.
They would come out and chase us away, saying it could collapse.

Looking back now –

It was dangerous!

After a while, they told our parents, and we stopped doing it!

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APPLE TREES!

To the right of our driveway –

On the neighbor’s lawn –

A huge APPLE TREE!

At the beginning of the driveway on the left as you turn in –

A smaller APPLE TREE!

Directly in the backyard, to the left of the red barn – an APPLE TREE!

Four houses down the street –

Two more APPLE TREES!

These trees were not only good eating apples –

Some are so tart, and others are juicy yellow ones!

BUT THEY WERE NEIGHBORHOOD AMUNITION TREES FOR APPLE WAR FARE!

Also good for chucking at rail cars as they came by on the tracks!

My early years growing up in my neighborhood of North Mani Street in Eldred, Pa.

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Papa’s World – Times – Places remembered.

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We have this little spot we go to for coffee and tea and sometimes food!

It is right across the OIB Causeway bridge!

The name is “59 CAUSEWAY GRILL” and sits right on the water of the boat marina!

Inside is a small bar area,

And we have noticed this to be a meeting place for the locals!

While here for breakfast one morning prior to a storm front moving in –

About 6 or 7 couples filtered in.

They seemed to all know each other and the bartender!

It was close to noon, and they all ordered drinks!

The conversations were lively and interesting.

The Causeway Bridge to Ocean Isle Beach.

59 Causeway Grill – the first turn to the left –

Turn left as soon as you enter the road and pass the Gas-Station Store – “SHEFFIELDS” –

Then right into the parking area, and you have arrived!

Beyond 59 Causeway Grill is “SHARKEYS BAR AND RESTAURANT” –

And then OBI FISH COMPANY bar and restaurant.

All three are good local places to eat and drink!

Sherry is inside the dining area next to the bar-

Talking with the bartender before the crowd came in.

He was seated on a bar chair, eating his lunch.

He was familiar with the areas we had lived in WNY and NVA!

Most of the folks down here are transplants from other areas, and we find a lot of people who know the area –

Where we are from.

The glider and sign on our front covered porch!

The sun is setting –

Our neighborhood is quiet-

Once again, we had ventured to the island –

Had breakfast-lunch at 59 Causeway Grill!

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Papa’s World – For future generations – REMEMBERING!

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A memory in a picture in time!

Before we left for S.C – N.C. –

As a family, we spent our last day hiking the mountains along the Blue Ridge of Va.

Here are Tammy’s three children – the youngest grandchildren.

Bode- Taylor – Cassidy and Tammy.

Today, the twins are freshmen in H.S.-

And Bode is about to go into middle school.

THIS IS REMEMBERING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

We made many trips here with Family and Friends!

Our days began on the Metro and the ride into the Capital.

All the grandkids loved it, and the tours we took showed them a beautiful city.

Ella and Maddy, the day we took a walking tour of the Cemetery and then across the 14th Street Bridge-

Onto the mall and ‘ROLLING THUNDER’ with thousands of motorcycles!

THIS IS REMEMBERING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

Papa and Sherry –

Sitting in the middle of the common area of the RESTON TOWN CENTER –

Visiting our close friends –

GINGER and JASON –

Who now built a house close to Leland in Brunswick Forest –

About 35 miles from us.

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Sherry and Cindy –

We were neighbors back in WNY in the late 80s-

They moved to Leland, NC, and now we live some 38 miles from them

We are still friends –

And still get together.

THIS IS REMEBERING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

A view from our fourth floor condo we had for nine months in Ocean Keyes, North Myrtle Beach!

We lived here while our new home was being built.

Many fond times with family and friends here!

THIS IS REMEMBERING FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

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Papa’s World – Memories of past life!

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Sherry’s mother, Barb, and her father, Bill!

They are both gone now, but many happy memories remain.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

My grandma and grandfather – Nora and David Aiken.

She was Pa. Dutch –

Following the lumber crews and cooking before she met my grandfather.

He was Irish-English –

During the depression –

He would help feed his neighbors from his farm.

He passed away before I was born,

But my middle name is David after him.

They had 11 children-

My mother was the second youngest.

The oldest boy fought in WWI –

And his name was Roy.

He was a dapper man and always came dressed in his three-piece suit with hat in hand.

My grandma lived with us when I was born and stayed with me as both my parents worked.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

Marcus and Tammy –

When they were first married, and before the twins and the grandson.

Today, the two girls are freshmen in high school.

And the grandson will be going into middle school.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

Friends from NVA who all live either in S.C. or N.C.

We still get together-

Friendships from the past to the present.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

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Sherry’s father, Bill, is a WWII veteran.

I learned so much from him as he was a master carpenter.

We have furnishings that he built for Sherry.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

Our wedding day – June 25th. 1982.

Combining two sets of children –

Living way out in the country in WNY.

Many fond memories of the early years.

MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE!

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Papa’s World – Memories revisited!

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This is our Cameron Woods Community Center under construction!

I think this was late 2020 or early 2021!

Today – it is in my opinion-

One of the nicest Community Centers in these developments!

Two pickleball courts.

A fully stocked workout room. Two large bathrooms – women’s and men’s.

A fully usable kitchen –

A large screened-in room with a half dozen teak tables and chairs.

A six person dinning room table and a countertop off the kitchen with two high-back chairs.

Two sitting areas with comfy chairs – couch and fireplace with tv over the mantle.

A small library in the sitting room.

Two entrances from the main building out to the pool, with a third from the screened-in room.

The pool area is completely fenced in –

Two outdoor showers – and a circular step down into the water with shallow water before setting down into the pool.

The deepest part is about five feet.

A large parking lot with numerous mailboxes and a large manicured lawn.

It is a big draw for resales of houses.

MEMORIES REVISTED!

Sherry is pointing at her golf ball with the green and flag behind her!

People are putting out on the green!

This was her drive!!!!!

Her ball hit the cart path and continued all along it before bouncing out to the fairway!

This is a par four, and it ended up over 300 yards!

Excitement at a once-in-a-lifetime experience of playing golf!

MEMORIES REVISITED!

Marcus – Tammy – Debby – Mike and Sherry.

The kids had a going-away party for us before we left for S.C. and N.C.

The grandkids at the going-away party!

A last hike before we left-

Saying goodbye was hard to do!

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Papa’s World – Old times in pictures!

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LOL – Being a senior, I can very well relate to this!

Before we moved to Cameron Woods Community at OIB-

We stayed off and on with Marcus and Tammy just outside of Leesburg, Va.

Here are Bode, Cassidy, and Taylor walking to the bus stop!

And if you look closely – Taylor is walking MARLEY the granddog!

OLD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Here they all are before the walk!

Marly has gotten so big, and the kids are now in H.S. (the twins) –

And Bode is about to go into middle school!

OLD TIMES IN PICTURES!

When Sherry and I travel to Myrtle Beach to go to the outlet stores-

We walk to Starbucks –

She gets an iced tea and I get a cup of coffee!

There is an area that has palm trees, chairs, benches, and artificial grass-

I select my seat and sit down!

I sip my coffee and stand guard over her iced tea.

She continues to shop –

While I PEOPLE WATCH!

She comes back and leaves her packages –

Sips her Iced Tea and then continues!

THIS IS MY HAPPY PLACE!

OLD TIMES IN PICTURES!

In 2021, we moved into our new home.

The following year, we started landscaping!

Here is the first phase, and you can still see the mulch along the side of the house.

Now – all the way around is matching stone!

The inside lanai is no longer screened in –

But a clear flexible plastic with a screen is there now-

Turning that room into a three-season room and a fourth with a heater!

OLD TIMES IN PICTURES!

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My high school senior picture – 1967!

My buddy and still friend today –

Lower right – BOB – we still get together!

OLD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Bob – Pam – Sherry and Papa at Christmas- 2025!

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Papa’s World – Memories – moments in time!

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Golf is one of the reasons we moved to Cameron Woods Community –

Ocean Isle Beach!

We are in the middle of maybe 30 golf courses within a half-hour drive.

While we do not play multiple times a week –

We try to get out as often as we can.

We are satisfied playing nine holes and then finding a place to eat out!

Usually teeing off around 2:00 pm.

That puts us done in like 2 1/2 hours-

Just in time for an early dinner.

There are so many places to golf and then dine around here.

CREATING MEMORIES- MOMENTS IN TIME!

We volunteer for the PROTECTION OF SEA TURTLES!

We will start our fourth season in May.

And the season runs until mid-October.

During that time –

You will generally find us at or near the beach – OIB!

This year, our granddaughter-

Taylor has applied to be an intern.

She has signed up for two weeks and will be involved every day in different capacities!

Sherry and I will be with her at all times!

About two years ago –

During a time when she was here –

At one of the weekly “TURTLE TALKS” –

They talked about being a summer intern and the date that the application had to be in!

Two years later, she remembered that talk and the date-

And reached out to Sherry to tell us she wanted to do this –

Her mother helped her fill out the form, and this summer –

She will be here as the eggs hatch-

To be a part of the PROTECTION OF SEA TURTLES –

As an intern!

Taylor – Cassidy and their mother, Tammy!

So proud of this young lady who has ridden horses since she was four years old –

And works weekends at the barn, cleaning and grooming horses.

TAYLOR – MEMORIES – MOMENTS IN TIME!

Taylor and Cassidy are helping Papa –

Raking up leaves at our home in Brambleton, Va.

They are fraternal twins.

Today – Cassidy made varsity as a freshman in cheerleading!

She also competes in gymnastics!

Cassidy with her father, Marcus, and mother- Tammy-

For her first homecoming as a Freshman.

Cassidy – in the middle high –

As a flyer on the varsity cheerleading team.

Her gymnastic skills helped her immensely in her tryout!

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Trisha and Shawn –

My youngest son –

On their wedding day!

They still live back in NWPA-

And have visited several times.

Looking forward to them coming back once again!

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Papa’s World – May 7th. 1949 – 77 years – ME!

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I was born in Olean, N.Y., at Saint Francis Hospital.

I had a sister, 15 years old at the time, and a brother, 10 years old at the time.

My mother’s mother lived with us.

Grandma took care of me as both my parents worked.

My earliest memory is sitting on her lap on the front porch-

And seeing a neighborhood young boy across the street-

On his way walking to school!

I asked her when I could go to school, and she said in two years.

That would make me about four years old!

My younger brother was born about four years later.

Today I turn 77 years old –

And I think back to, “Where did the time go?”

Yet, I have no regrets as I feel blessed to have experienced all that my life offered.

The first 30 years I spent living in a small town in NWPA –

Near the border of WNY –

In what is called ELDRED, PA.

At 18 –

One week after I graduated from H.S.-

I started work at AMERICAN OLEAN TILE –

Across the border in Olean, N.Y.

And – 47 1/2 years later –

Retired from the same company, now called DAL-TILE!

After transferring in 1999 to NVA –

Working at six different locations –

I ended up in Dulles- Chantilly –

At the Slab yard – Sales Service Center warehouse.

I wore many hats during those 47 1/2 years.

I also met Sherry at the Olean Factory –

She was in Payroll, and I was in shipping.

That was around mid 1980 –

That we began to date after she went through a divorce-

And I did too!

We were married on June 25th. 1982!

That was almost 44 years ago!

My two sons still live back in that area –

And her two daughters live in NVA!

We now live in Ocean Isle Beach in N.C.-

Near the border of S.C.

We moved during the Pandemic –

Form here in NVA –

To North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

We eventually had a house built in Cameron Woods Community-

Ocean Isle Beach on the mainland in N.C.

The Pandemic changed our lives –

We sold our home after 14 1/2 years –

It went way up in value as the 401K dropped.

We said our goodbyes –

Loaded our car and left for the South.

Warmer weather –

And live out our senior years.

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On June 25th.

It will be 44 years since we got married.

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Papa’s World – Memories of good times!

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Sherry at the BILTMORE ESTATE on one of our trips.

We have been here twice and want to visit during the holiday season to see the decorations!

In 2020, during the Pandemic –

We spent the first nine months here in North Myrtle Beach until our new home was finished!

We really explored all of the area and into N.C.

This area was high on our list, but we just could not find anything that did not require a lot of money-

To update!

A lot of good memories from our time here!

June 25th, 1982 – our wedding day!

It seems like only yesterday –

All the years have gone by-

GOOD MEMORIES!

While we were in ASHVILLE,

We visited the SERRA NEVADA BREWERY!

We were on a tour and saw how the beer is made-

And then we did a tasting!

GOOD MEMORIES!

LOL – However – I like PBR!

In fact –

We have a local hangout on the beach –

Called – “PELICANS PERCH” –

Where can I get $2.00 PBR’S!

Last time there with my buddy – Bob-

We each had three PBR’s and a meatball sandwich,

And a bag of chips –

FOR A TOTAL OF JUST UNDER $17.00 each!

GOOD MEMORIES!

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At a resort just outside Asheville-

We just stopped and looked around.

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Papa’s World – Ten years ago – the CALM before the STORM!

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We lived at Minerva Drive in Brambleton, Va.

For fourteen and one-half years!

Ten years ago – the day started out sunny – somewhat warm –

And we took our normal two to three-mile walk –

That we did every day!

It was a calming day –

And the weather forecast was that a storm was approaching!

We lived in a community just behind the DULLES AIRPORT!

This is Northern Va., and while we did get snow and ice-

It stayed green outside until early winter.

LITTLE DID WE KNOW WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS PICTURE –

WAS THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM!

A view from the porch steps of the intersection in front of our home!

To the top left is the house that –

THE DIRECTOR OF WORLDWIDE COUNTER TERRORISM LIVED FOR THE FBI!

He retired before we did.

And moved away!

This is the intersection that I was watching from my chair on the front porch when a car pulled up at an angle-

In the middle of the intersection.

A man rolled the window down,

And he leaned out and started taking pictures of the house.

I was caught by surprise,

And it was over in mere seconds.

He did a U-turn in the middle of the street and sped off back the way he had come.

Later that day, I walked across and spoke to my friend –

I told him what had happened.

He asked me if I got the plate number,

And I said “NO” –

It was all so quick,

And I did not even think about it!

He then told me –

His wife had seen a BLACK SUV pull up across the street –

On the right-hand side, park.

She recorded the plate number and called him at work in the capital.

He ran the plate number,

And it came back –

It did not exist!

He had been testifying in Congress against the Chinese –

He took out his wallet –

And handed me his card with his name and phone number on it!

He told me if I ever saw anything again-

Call him right away and try to get the plate number!

I never saw anything after that –

But I still have his card,

Although he retired years ago.

Anyway, that is a side story to the STORM and this intersection!

The next morning after I took this picture –

We woke up to this!

The calm had passed, and the storm became real!

As high as the snow is piled-

It was nowhere near as much of a storm we had while living here.

Sherry and I lived in NWPA and WNY for 50 years.

I can say – in NVA –

We had three storms-

That left more snow than we ever had back there.

Most was recorded by the DULLES AIRPORT –

From our second story, we could see the tower.

We had 48 inches in a day and a half!

National Harbor with Buck and Cindy!

Around the time we lived back in NVA.

Our house – the front porch and before the storm –

Christmas lights –

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Papa’s World – As a SENIOR – AGING!

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AGING – Where have all the years gone?

With that being said, I feel blessed!

I am happy with my life- everything I have done and how I lived.

Now – in our SENIOR years-

We have settled in at Cameron Woods Community –

And in a few months, five years have passed!

We have made this home “OUR HOME” in our Senior years!

We enjoy golfing –

Not very good at it –

But – just being outside-

And the chance for a par, or if lucky, a birdie.

I am just happy not to lose my ball! LOL

We live near so many golf courses.

And I purchased a card called “THE TRAIL CARD”!

That gives me a discount on a great number of courses and as a guest-

Sherry also gets a discount!

Today, we are at the age of just being satisfied playing nine holes-

Then going out to dinner as we prefer to play around 2pm.

We have lifelong friends with whom we play or just get together-

Movie – dinner or a show!

Buck and Cindy were our neighbors back in WNY!

Today, we live 38 miles from them in OIB.

We now have a lot of friends who moved to NC and SC, and we meet up with them!

LIFE AS A SENIOR IS GETTING BETTER!


Our Community entrance!

We selected this community because of all the land and trees that are protected and will remain here.

Yet, we are but a few miles from the beaches, shopping, and entertainment.

SOUTH CAROLINA – the border is but 7 miles away.

Our community is quiet, yet we know many people.

My grade school buddy – Bob and his wife Pam-

Have leased a home nearby after 61/2 years of RVING all over the country!

They are testing it out to see if they like it here and yet still be a day’s drive from families!

Our neighborhood friends –

A friendly Steelers vs. Bills get-together!

Another football game watch!

At a open air concerts at the park in OIB!

Debby – Papa and Sherry –

On one of our many trips to the JUICE PLUS CONVENTION!

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Papa’s World – Well being – Memories!

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Our senior years – making memories and remembering them!

Not as easy as it sounds!

We both have calendars-

Which we write down all sorts of things!

MEMORY JOGGERS I call them!

I also make notes and keep them within sight!

This is all part of aging!

On Monday, Wednesday and Fridays –

I can go to the recycling-

At the park across the street.

These are the days when the bin is changed.

Then there is Tuesdays!

That is the day we make sure all trash baskets in the house are cleaned out!

The garbage bin is rolled out around 4pm.

Wednesday morning –

The garbage truck comes and empties around 9am.

BUT – That sometimes does not happen until the afternoon!

WHY? I do not know –

But to make sure it is out there –

We- the neighborhood – put out the trash late Tuesday afternoon!

So – for memory – that takes care of Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday and Fridays!

SPORTS!

Football – NFL – they play multiple days of the week!

And we have two favorite teams –

The Commanders and the Bills!

And that helps with memory also!

For me, I also follow college basketball –

My team is The Saint Bonaventure Basketball BONNIES!

Ever since my father took me to games in the mid 50s-

I have been a faithful follower!

SPORTS HELP ME TO REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE WEEK!

As does CHURCH!

Sundays – we belong at Saint Luke’s Lutheran Church of Sahllotte-

Right on highway 17 – some ten minutes from our home.

Another reminder of what day of the week it is!

We accept the Senior life!

We volunteer – we help when we can and donate what we can.

Life as a senior can be eventful –

You just make it as you can and accept what you can not do!

LIVING HEALTHY AS YOU CAN!

Doctors – meds- appointments – all part of being a SENIOR!

WELL BEING – LOOKING OUT FOR EACH OTHER!

FAMILY – STAYING IN TOUCH AND SEEING THEM WHEN WE CAN AND ARE ABLE!

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Aging as healthily as we can into and through our SENIOR YEARS!

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I do most of the driving –

She does the directions, and it works for us!

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Papa’s World – Life in NC at Cameron woods!

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At the entrance to Cameron Woods Community at Thanksgiving!

For the fourth year in a row-

The community gathered and walked to the entrance to do a “TURKEY TROT”!

They meet at the community center and walk together to the front, and then those who want-

Continue to walk the different side streets!

CAMERON WOODS COMMUNITY –

The “WHY” we chose to build our home and live here.

A previous year of meeting to walk.

The group has gotten larger each year.

Our front porch in Cameron Woods Community!

This is the one thing I wanted –

A FRONT PORCH!

Covered from rain and shaded from the hot Carolina sun!

I sit here and say hello to those who walk by or wave to those riding by.

You can say it is my little place of heaven as a senior!

Our journey brought us here as seniors.

Today, we have no plans to sell and move on!

This is our final home.

WE ARE BLESSED to have been able to do this!

FRIENDS – FAMILY have all shared our home here.

That is why we designed it to do just that!

Health – well-being – senior living!

All factors into this.

Every year, we reset our healthy living!

We maintain a healthy lifestyle so we can stay in our home.

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Papa’s World – Sunshine – blue skies – beach life!

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A view of Ocean Isle Beach from the “GROIN” area looking SW.

The area behind the “GROIN” pictured here –

It is eroding fast!

The dunes are almost gone, along with the trees and vegetation.

The surf comes in and pulls the sand out.

The “Groin” was put here to stop that from happening where the houses are.

A beach replenishing pumped acres of sand in from dredging operations.

First and second avenues had disappeared, and third avenue was in danger of vanishing!

At high tide,

The ocean water actually was almost under the white house-

But for huge sandbags –

Surrounding it!

Those bags remained there, and sand blew in over them.

Such is beach life –

We chose to stay on the mainland –

And commute to here when we want to!

SUNSHINE – BLUE SKIES and BEACH LIFE!

This is the OIB public park on the island.

Open-air concerts are held here from mid-May to the beginning of October.

After October, there are festivals held here!

It is one of the perks we knew of when we decided to build our home in –

CAMERON WOODS COMMUNITY!

SUNSHINE – BLUE SKIES and BEACH LIFE!

Our home –

The driveway looking toward the sunrise in the East.

This part of the coastline faces almost due South-

Because of the curvature from Charleston to the Outer Banks.

The storms tend to come up the coast and veer out, but sometimes –

They hit.

We have had one Category One storm.

It was scary, and not sure if we will stay for the stronger ones.

We are back some two to three miles from the coastline.

It is the wind I worry about and the protected nature trees we have here.

We have protected wildlife areas here and large trees behind the house.

But – the wind seems to come sideways, and the trees move in that direction-

And not toward the house.

The beauty of all the trees is one reason we chose this community-

Instead of all the clear-cut ones.

And in the picture, you can see a little part of all the trees!

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2024- on the beach celebrating our 75th birthdays with family!

We have now going on five years-

Being in our current house.

We are living our best senior years here.

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Papa’s World – Family times!

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A picture of Sherry and me with five granddaughters!

Left to right: Sarah – now a freshman in college-

Maddy – Graduated from college –

With Enviormental Science degree and is working!

Sherry – holding Cassidy, who is a freshman in H.S.

Papa, who is holding Taylor, a freshman in H.S.

Ella, who graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Physical Education!

This is before Bode, and the twins were not even walking!

FAMILY TIMES!

Marcus, Bode, and I are at a restaurant for lunch!

Bode is now in 5th. grade about to go to middle school.

Marcus runs his own company in NVA doing insurance claims.

This was at the OLD ANCHOR BAR AND GRILL in the Villages of LEESBURG!

This is a franchise and a Buffalo Bills bar and grill!

BUFFALO CHICKEN WINGS!

Papa – holding Taylor and Cassidy!

Taylor and Csssidy with MARLEY –

First day of H.S.

FAMILY TIMES!

Ella – Maddy and Sarah –

All grown up!

FAMILY TIMES!

Debby – Maddy – Ella – Sherry and Sarah.

SWEDISH GENES-

FAMILY TIMES!

We all take this supplement –

The kids have had almost all their lives.

And the younger ones, while in the womb!

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Papa’s World – one last day at our daughters house!

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We spent a last day before we leave and go to South Carolina

at the house of Mike and Debby’s

with the two granddaughters!

Ella pushing Sarah on the tree swing

And we spent the entire day outside – chilly but bright sunshine.

This is how they live – hiking – sports – outside – campfires!

Their home is beautiful – set in the fringe of the woods.

The girls have lived here for 15 years

He has a complete backyard with different skill learning activities

A fire pit

There is also a zip line and in winter – a run to slide in the snow.

A trampoline – hiking trail –

Soccer practice equipment

It also was the second weekend of the community wide garage sale!

We helped them set up and take down.

Had to wear my jacket as it was in the low 60’s!

We planned this so we could spend one last time before we leave.

It is never easy to say goodbye

but the upside will be a place to come and visit

and being retired we will come back often

we are keeping our doctors – and dentist –

Mother and daughter
Bonding mother and daughter
This goes for both daughters Debby and Tammy! LOL!

We took them out for dinner the night before

sharing one last meal

missing our oldest granddaughter

who is away at college!

Sarah you just never know what she will do! LOL
Ella and her mother

Life is never easy – leaving will be hard – but – it is time.

We have all been close in NVA.

For over 21 years.

Proud of Debby – she gave up creamer!!!!

Our last day was spent just like we expected

outdoors – blue skies – sunshine –

a little chilly – campfire the night before

eating healthy –

loving life and watching the girls

have so much fun togehther

laughing – playing –

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Papa’s World – Past memories – family and friends!

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My journey through life these past 45 years has been amazing!

You see –

That is about the time Sherry and I started seeing each other, plus a few months.

Our lives together have spanned all that time.

We raised two sets of children –

Her two daughters and my two sons (they still lived with their mother).

Those days were a struggle as money was just not there.

But we made do!

June 25th. 1982 – our wedding day.

The early years were spent living way out in the country!

The daughter’s school was about eleven miles away,

And my son’s home is about fifteen miles away.

We were constantly driving the kids back and forth.

Our driveway was 1/10th of a mile long!

Good for sled riding in winter snows –

But had to be plowed often.

We could just see the neighbor at the end of the driveway,

And the same across the hill at the other neighbor.

Cindy and Dottie –

Two of our earliest friends,

Along with Buck and Jimmy, their husbands.

Cindy – Dottie – Sherry – Buck and Jimmy!

Our friendships have lasted since the end of the 70’s and into the 80’s!

We have vacationed together and traveled the world.

Our children were all involved with us as friends!

Today we are all retired –

All have grandkids.

Life has been good-

And as seniors –

We live as healthily-

As we can.

We have taken a supplement for over TWENTY years!

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Which, in your senior years, is so important!

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Papa’s World – Living life one day at a time.

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Living life for me is one day at a time!

After experiencing a major heart attack-

I have learned life is short, and unexpected obstacles appear.

That being said –

I now only look ahead to the day in question and live it to the fullest.

Sherry and part of her “TEAM GENERATIONS”!

She and her two daughters –

Twenty-odd years ago –

Formed “TEAM GENERATIONS” –

To help grandchildren with healthy eating and lifestyle –

To go toward “GENERATIONS” to come.

Mothers who teach their children the concept of FRUITS- VEGETABLES and BERRIES-

Nutrients in daily consumption.

As “TEAM GENERATIONS EXPANDS –

All up and down the EAST COAST-

Families are entering their children into the Juice Plus Childrens Reaearch program-

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If an adult purchases the Fruit and Vegetable nutrient capsules –

As long as they continue –

They can sponsor one child –

Between the ages of 4 and 19 –

And if in college, 19 to 25-

FOR FREE – just pay shipping!

These capsules are loaded with the dry powdered nutrients of 30 fruits, vegetables,

And berries if you also take the Vineland capsule.

Plus – if the child has trouble swallowing the capsules –

It is available in GUMMIES!

They are all entered into a database by the parents-

And their health is tracked for years –

The research program shows the health benefits of these nutrients.

TEAM GENERATIONS – twenty plus years –

Getting healthy one day at a time!

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Tammy – Sherry and Debby – Mother and Daughters –

Over Twenty Years ago –

Started “TEAM GENERATIONS”!

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Papa’s World – In our world – family-Friends!

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Andrea and Troy – my son and Sherry on the pier!

FAMILY is so important to us.

My sons have driven some 15 hours to come and visit us!

Trisha and Shawn – my younger son, Sherry, and Papa.

They have been down several times –

And want to come in mid-summer to see the Sea Turtles hatch!

Having family stay was a major consideration when we built this house.

We have room for them.

LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN THEY COME BACK!

FAMILY TIME!!!

FRIENDS are also important to us.

We have lifelong friends whom we see two or three times a year.

Cindy – Debbie – Dottie and Sherry!

We try to get together for long weekends and golf.

The four guys –

Waiting for the gals to tee off.

No – they said to go first! LOL

We play a scramble against them –

And after much discussion –

Strokes are given –

Not many because it is close without them!

And we won by “ONE STROKE”! WHEW!

It is always a fun long weekend.

FRIENDS ARE AWESOME!

FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

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Papa’s World – Life in general!

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In this year –

We have reset our goals.

As aging seniors –

We take care of one another.

Our goals are to age healthily as long as we can.

For me-

I do not drink sodas – and have cut out milk entirely.

I also have cut way back on having the occasional beer!

I limit my intake of red meat –

I watch out for starches because I am borderline diabetic.

I take meds for that.

I blog every day –

For this is a journal of our lives!

BUT –

It keeps my mind active in memories!

Writing them down and storing them on my WORDPRESS site.

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Taylor -Cassidy and Tammy.

Youngest daughter and granddaughters.

Debby – oldest daughter!

Debby – her husband Mike and the three oldest granddaughters –

Sarah – Ella, Maddy, and her boyfriend, Kendrick.

The six grandchildren with Bode, the only boy!

Marcus – Bode and Tammy!

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The grandkids were raised on it!

They all got it for free as they were sponsored by one adult!

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LIFE IN GENERAL is mainly for GENERATIONS of grandkids and great-grandkids to come.

To see who we are and how we lived.

Our families –

Friends and where we lived.

From our beginnings –

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Papa’s World – One day at a time – LIFE!

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Living is far from simple!

Living healthy is not easy!

So – I have taken this for me –

“TO LIVE LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME”!

When you have ailments that prevent you from walking long distances-

At least in my case –

I still go out,

Although I take shorter walks.

My problem is my right calf.

After a walk –

It starts to hurt, and I begin to limp!

There is a 50% blockage there –

But – it is calcified and will not break free.

I just have to work through it until I can no longer endure the pain afterward.

I am monitored by a vascular doctor-

My heart doctor and my GP!

All those early years of poor eating led to this.

I still maintain a healthy lifestyle –

Eating healthy –

For the past twenty years.

I still walk short distances –

With no pain and no problems.

But – I am learning –

I am doing what I can –

And thanking God that I have lived my life –

I am closer to 80 than 70!

I still golf as long as I have a cart.

And it still is fun for me!

LIVING LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME!

I am blessed to have a wife who coaches me –

Watches over me, and we are growing old together.

After twenty years –

I still need to take this supplement-

To help me on my journey!

Those early years – if only I had them back!

But I am committed to this every day.

I believe it is helping me!

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I am enjoying every day –

I love my life-

I am still here-

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Papa’s World – All things past!

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Sherry and I both believe we should care for our neighbors-

Friends – Family and all others –

We do not hate – we believe in the teachings of our religion.

We care for the less fortunate and try to help where we can.

Volunteering – helping to raise money and goods.

That is who we are.

We are grateful for our life together after all these years!

Soulmates- friends –

As we are one.

Five granddaughters –

One grandson –

They all are older now-

But-

Much joy comes when they visit,

And we visit them!

ALL THINGS PAST INTO the PRESENT!

Today, we capture the last time we were all together,

The past to the present-

Grateful to have the time to spend together.

Past – FRIENDS –

And still friends to this day-

Decades and decades of friendships!

Always laughing –

Present – the friendships are passed down to the next generation!

Mothers and daughters.

ALL THINGS PAST TO THE PRESENT!

A HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM!

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To make the world a better place!

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Papa’s World – “The Lords Food Pantry”!

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Sherry and I volunteer through our church-

Saint Luke’s Lutheran Church – Shalotte, N.C.-

For the ministry of the South Brunswick Interchurch Council.

Our congregation is responsible for the second Saturday of every month-

To provide volunteers to dispense food to those in need.

For over FORTY years –

What is known as “THE LORDS FOOD PANTRY” –

Has been a community partner –

In addressing the issue of food insecurity in Brunswick County, NC.

To give you a scope in size-

Brunswick County, NC. –

Is roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island.

A population of 166,866!

Brunswick County is one of the fastest-growing counties in the USA.

Brunswick County has a poverty rate of 14%!

That is over 23,600 individuals.

The number of clients The Lords Food Pantry served in 2024 –

Was 32% higher than 2023 –

And in 2024, served over 23,000 individuals.

2025 most likely was even higher.

During the first six months of 2025 –

The Lord’s Food Pantry –

Provided life-sustaining food for three days –

To an average of 642 children, 987 adults, and 573 seniors per month!

NO ONE WAS TURNED AWAY!

The food given will feed them for three days of the week.

I usually check in the cars and get them parked.

What strikes me most are the Seniors.

Many can not get out and walk.

Yet are grateful for the assistance we give them.

In talking to them –

They have many aliments and some have breathing problems.

It breaks my heart to see them in such shape.

The Lord’s Food Pantry has outgrown the space they now have,

And the lease is up in a little over a year.

They have moved to several locations in the 40-plus years.

Outgrowing each other as the population of the poverty level increases.

Today, the need for support is more than ever.

A plan has been put forth –

Seeking donations and grants –

THE LORD’S FOOD PANTRY is seeking a long-term location –

One that will not require a year-long lease and provide the space needed to serve-

The Brunswick County poverty level.

If you choose, you can support with the following information.

The Lord’s Food Pantry

3610 Express Drive

Shallotte, NC 28470

Phone number- 910-477-3430

email: thelordsfoodpantry@gmail.com thelordsfoodpantry.org

Mailing address – P.O. Box- 1461

Shalotte, N.C. 28459

The new fundraising drive to find a permanent place to call the Brunswick Food Pantry –

Is – ” FEED MY SHEEP”!

A ministry of the South Brunswick Interchurch Council!

If you would like to learn more and or donate –

The address and email above are for you to consider.

The area churches are all involved, and more are added as time goes by.

Sherry and I welcome all the support for this endeavor.

Volunteering in our own senior years –

Reaching out to those in need through our own church –

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Papa’s World – Refelctions of the past!

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And then the sun sets in Cameron Woods Community!

Our three oldest granddaughters are jogging down the street toward us!

Sarah – the youngest – is now a freshman in college!

Maddy – graduated from college with an Environmental Science degree-

Now works for a national Environmental firm.

Ella – graduated from college as an Elementary PHYSED teacher-

And now teaches in Loudoun County, VA.

From Sunset to walking the beach at sunrise with family!

It is not often that all three granddaughters are here at the same time.

But the family came for a visit before they all became really busy.

Thus, these pictures are –

REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST and for future generations of the family to see!

That same view facing SW as a storm approaches.

These storms roll in off the coast –

From a westerly direction and sometimes –

From the SW.

The coastline here is unique.

Because of the curvature from Charleston to Wilmington –

Our beaches face almost south!

We are somewhat protected from the major storms as they steer off in a NW direction.

BUT – major hurricanes have hit here in the past 75 years!

The Myers family –

Oldest daughter and her husband,

And their three daughters.

This picture was taken behind the church on OIB –

The sunset across the marsh!

CREATING FOR US –

REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST!

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Education on health –

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Papa and Sherry –

Living our dream by the beaches!

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Papa’s World – More memories – friends!

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The high school I graduated from-

It was in 1967.

Otto-Eldred H.S.

I have many long-time friends from that era of my life.

I stay in contact with –

Some I see yearly –

Others through social media.

But the Memories are still present –

The times we spent together as youths.

MORE MEMORIES – FRIENDS!

Bobby – Pam – Sherry and Papa.

Here is my longtime friend from grade school – Bob.

We have stayed in contact all these years.

They have traveled the country for the last six plus years in an RV.

They decided to lease a house some nine miles from us for a year.

So – we play golf together –

See shows and have get-togethers –

Time spent in friendships!

From childhood friends to senior living friends!

MORE MEMORIES – FRIENDS!

Here we are –

Buck – Cindy – Sherry – Papa – Dottie and Jim.

Dottie – Jim and I grew up in Eldred, Pa.

Buck and Cindy were our neighbors in Portville, N.Y.

But knew Jim and Dottie.

We have all been friends for decades and decades!

We all now live in N.C.

Jim and Dottie in the North of the state, and Buck and Cindy-

Some 35 miles from us.

We still get together –

We still stay in touch after all those years.

MORE MEMORIES – FRIENDS!

Three friends and their daughters.

GENERATIONS OF FRIENDSHIPS!

For our health, twenty-plus years –

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Sherry – Adam and Peggy.

We worked with Adam at American Olean Tile in the mid-90s.

Adam was my boss.

He went back to Armstrong before we were acquired by Mohawk.

They vacation yearly in North Myrtle Beach, and we get together –

MORE FRIENDS AND MEMORIES!

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Papa’s World – Writing for family!

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Sherry’s father – “Bill”!

A WWII vet –

And a master craftsman in building furniture!

He made three Hutches –

One for each daughter –

They come in two pieces –

The top has glass fronts and doors.

The bottoms have wooden doors and shelves.

The upper also has shelves where you can display your fine china, etc.

He was self-taught –

And would use a small piece of paper to roughly draw his creations –

And then from his mind –

Cut and plane the wood –

Making dove tails and smooth surfaces for staining.

He was also a union carpenter.

We have three of his pieces in our home.

I write this for all the great-grandchildren who did know him.

A journal of generational information for future generations to come.

Here is Sherry’s mother and father –

Barb and Bill.

Her mother’s mother was born in Sweden.

There are still relatives over there.

Barb was known to the grandkids as “GIGI”!

She married Bill when she was 17.

They had three daughters –

Sherry, the oldest, then Debbie, and finally Bonnie.

They all lived just outside Mount Jewett, PA.

On several acres of land, farm animals were growing up, including horses.

Mount Jewett was a Swedish community-

Built by Swedes in the mid-1800s.

Her father was Scotch-German.

Many fond memories of both her parents.

Bill was raised in Ludlow, PA.

And enlisted in the service for WWII.

A JOURNAL OF GENERATIONAL INFORMATION.

When friends gather on the beach.

We live near two beaches-

Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach.

This is a view from Sunset Beach looking North to OIB and the tall building!

We often meet folks and sit and talk near either pier.

We both wanted a warmer climate-

And as little snow-ice and freezing weather –

We still have four seasons here, but much milder.

Marcus and Tammy were early in their marriage.

They now have the twin girls –

Cassidy and Taylor –

And the only boy grandchild – Bode-

The twins are in High School,

And Bode is finishing elementary school

Going into middle school.

Golfing with decades-old friends!

Buck and Cindy.

We now live 38 miles from them and often get together.

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Friends Pam and Bob.

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Papa’s World – Positive writing!

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Cassidy – Bode and Taylor when they were little!

Today, Bode is about to enter the 6th grade. grade-

The two girls are about to be Sophomores in high school.

This picture evokes a positive thought and memory of the past.

Most likely will not happen –

But – you never know – just maybe it will!

THINK POSITIVE!

Spending time with Trisha and Shawn when they came to visit!

Always a POSITIVE THOUGHT!

Three friends –

DECADES OF FRIENDSHIPS!

DECADES OF LAUGHTER!

DECADES OF BEING THERE FOR EACH OTHER!

A POSITIVE THOUGHT!

We have-

And we will continue to do!

POSITIVE THOUGHTS IN OUR LIVES!

LOL – SO TRUE!

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Sherry – on our honeymoon in 1982!

A VERY POSITIVE MEMORY FOR ME!

Top picture –

Bode when he came home –

Middle picture –

Taylor and Cassidy when they came home!

POSITIVE PICTURE ON BOTTOM-

ALL THREE AS THEY WERE GROWING UP – MEMORIES!

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Papa’s World – Memories of good times!

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Papa- Buck and Jimmy!

My longtime good friends.

Many memories of both golfing and vacations!

MEMORIES I CHERISH!

My life has been a roller coaster of ups and downs!

BUT – I would not change it in any way!

MEMORIES I CHERISH!

Sarah – the youngest granddaughter of the Myers family!

Here – she is shown in her Senior year of H.S.-

Standing under one of the two designs she made for her school.

They were commissioned and painted for the 75th anniversary of the H.S.

Thus, it will be here for years to come.

MEMORIES I CHERISH!

Cindy and Sherry –

We were neighbors for years on Pleasant Acres Drive in Portville, NY.

She and Buck moved to Leland, N.C.-

In the mid-90s.

But – we maintained contact and throughout the years –

Went on vacations all over the world.

Today, we live 38 miles away from them and still get together!

MEMORIES I CHERISH!

Sherry and Papa –

On one of the many trails we walked back in Brambleton, VA.

We lived here for 14 1/2 years and thought this would be where we retired to!

That all changed in 2020 with the Pandemic!

We sold our home and moved to S.C. and N.C. –

Building a new home in Cameron Woods Community!

MEMORIES I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH!

When friends get together and go to an island to see wild horses!

This was off the northern coast of N.C.

All these years we have been friends!

Golfing – get togethers –

MEMORIES I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH!

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Our happy place – THE BEACH!

MEMORIES I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH!

My happy place to sit and watch the world go by!

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Papa’s World – Humor – Positive thoughts!

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LOL – In this case, I love vegetables!

But – it is also funny!

Yes, it is!

We both live life one day at a time.

Family, friends, and events.

Our home is now the center of all of this!

Before Bode-

Family with Sherry’s mother –

Known as GIGI!

Here – grandmother –

Mother and two daughters –

And FIVE granddaughters!

The Swedish genes run deep!

FRIENDS – for decades and decades.

Cindy – Dottie – Sherry –

Buck – Jimmy and Papa.

We have known them for decades.

We try to get together from time to time.

FRIENDS – lifetime memories!

Kindness is free – so is love!

Well –

Mine would be too short and to the right! LOL

Dottie – As I knew her when she married Jimmy.

Both were raised in the same little town of Eldred, Pa., as I was!

FRIENDS FOREVER!

WWII museum –

In the little town of Eldred, Pa.

MEMORIES!

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BLOGGING – I have always blogged about family, friends, humor, and Good Thoughts!

The purpose of my blogs –

To write a journal on our lives so that future generations –

Know who, why, and what we are!

With story lines and pictures.

Past generations – events – special occasions and vacations.

Where we were from –

And the places we have lived.

Cassidy and Taylor-

Fraternal twins –

Now in HS.

Taylor – cousin Sarah and Cassidy in our courtyard in Brambleton, VA.

All three were always playing together and dressing up!

Today, Sarah is a freshman in college, while the twins are in high school.

Maddy with Taylor and Cassidy.

I love the look on Cassidy’s face as she looks at Maddy.

Today, Maddy has graduated from college and is working as an Environmental Scientist-

For a national environmental firm.

Sherry – top left-

Debby, Maddy, Ella, Sarah, and Mike are behind them.

Family came to visit, and we went to OIB Park for an open-air concert- Free!

Cherish – the reason for my blogs- to see and read –

GOOD THOUGHTS-

Our favorite NFL teams.

I lean a little more to the Commanders-

While Sherry leans a little more toward the Bills!

But – we cheer them both on –

And when they play one another, we can’t lose!

The supplement we have taken for more than twenty years!

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Sherry – driving the ball – you can see it!

This was on OHAU –

We vacationed there with our friends –

Cindy and Buck McBride!

Sherry and Cindy!

Buck and Papa.

Decades and decades of friendships!

We have traveled the world on vacations together.

Things we have carried through 2025 and now 2026!

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Papa’s World – Humor – Positive thoughts!

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LOL- Some smiles to start your day!

Buck – Cindy and Sherry –

On one of our many golf outings!

Friends for decades-

Traveling the world and golfing!

A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY FOR US!

Sherry and I lived this era in our lives!

I actually rode a motorcycle and had long curly hair!

A part of my life that I fondly remember.

LOVE – PEACE – and HAPPINESS!

Yes, I am! LOL – In our home –

That is called teamwork!

My view after we drove ten minutes to the beach!

A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR ME!

My oldest son, Troy

Was on his visit here-

A couple of years ago.

A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR US!

Papa with his youngest son, Shawn.

A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR US!

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LOL – HUMOR FOR THE EARLY MORNINGS!

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Papa’s World – Growing old – living healthy!

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In our senior years – closer to 80 than 70!

Our journey began in 2005!

We had moved to Fairfax, Va., and then to Brambleton, Va.

Sherry had been searching for a food supplement.

We had given up several unhealthy items in our diet.

She found a three-day vendor for health at the Convention Center in Washington, DC.

Known and sponsored by “NBC” for your health.

Hundreds of vendors –

Healthy supplements and food plans, including diets, etc.

Me – I took in the entertainment and the food courts! A NO-NO!

She found me later and said she found something –

That could change our lives!

JUICE PLUS – Fruits – Vegetables and Berries in capsules!

THIRTY OF THEM – two capsules of each every day!

And the research that backed up the claims of what it said it did!

PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS!

However, I was skeptical.

I am sort of PROVE IT BEFORE I BELIEVE IT!

Well – she did –

She ordered a three-month supply –

This is the recommended supply because it takes that long –

For every cell in your body to change.

Regenerate with all those nutrients working to make you healthier!

After two and a half months –

I saw improvements.

Her complexion – her hair was shiny, and her fingernails were growing faster.

She had what I would call a glow.

And she felt better.

That was when I decided to join her and ordered my own supply!

She was not getting sick as often,

And neither did I after three months!

And when I did, it was not as bad as before.

I was feeling better!

NBC for your health –

Lucky she found it,

And lucky to come across a vendor selling the product!

We also found out it had been in existence since the late 80s !

I wish I had known about it then.

I felt the change.

My hunger for more fruits and vegetables –

We change what we eat.

I no longer drink soda!

I no longer drink milk!

I have almost completely eliminated fast food.

I have cut way back on sweets,

And I actually control my weight better!

I now weigh ten pounds less than I did when I graduated in 1967!

I drink mostly water –

A beer once in a while –

No wine or hard stuff!

And it actually is sold in over 25 countries!

We have changed since we first started –

I feel we are healthier today –

Then back when we started!

The journey to better health is never-ending as long as you are living.

It takes commitment –

As when you make New Year’s resolutions –

It is hard to do.

Temptations are there.

We have made a difference in our family and friends.

No regrets, and I have never missed a day!

Here are our grandchildren –

For every adult order –

You can sponsor one child –

Ages 4 to 19 –

And if going to college –

19 to 25!

THEY WILL RECEIVE IT FREE AS LONG AS THE SPONSOR CONTINUES TO ORDER!

All six are Juice Plus children –

In the Children’s research program. FREE!

PAPA and SHERRY – closer to 80 than 70!

If this interests you –

Sherry has had a website for twenty years!

You can read – search the research –

See the price and order if you want!

And remember,

The children are free with each order.

NO OBLIGATION!

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Capsules and powder drinks!

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Papa’s World – Present days and past memories!

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Hard to believe –

The six grandkids are growing up!

Bode- the only boy –

Is in fifth grade!

Next is Cassidy and Taylor-

Both are freshmen in HS!

Then Sarah –

Freshmen in College!

Maddy and then Ella –

Have graduated from college and are working!

It seems like yesterday they were all at the beach –

Little Bode and the rest were sitting on the sand.

The present is upon us-

The past is memories!

Bobby and his wife Pam.

Sherry and Papa.

Bob and I go back to grade school.

Staying overnight at each other’s house –

Playing sports together.

Growing up in Eldred, Pa.

Today, they are spending one year near us in a rental –

After over six years on the road in an RV!

FRIENDSHIP of the PAST –

To FRIENDSHIP of the PRESENT!

YEARS OF MEMORIES!

The date-

6-25-1982!

After a year and a half –

We were married.

Combining two sets of children.

In those days, we were poor.

But we made it work.

Living way out in the country –

The driveway was 1/10th of a mile long!

Great for sled riding-

In the winter snows!

But days and days of mowing all the lawn and along the driveway.

Money was tight –

But we did what we could on packing food for long weekends camping in a tent-

Or her parents’ fifth wheel!

Four and a half years we lived out there-

In the country.

Many fond memories, and we do go back when we are up there –

To just bring back the memories and see it from the end of the long driveway!

PAST MEMORIES AND NOW THE PRESENT –

OCEAN ISLE BEACH – CAMERON WOODS COMMUNITY – N.C.

The present – Cameron Woods Community – Ocean Isle Beach – N.C.

Making new memories –

For family and friends to visit.

Senior years – growing healthy together.

Aging as healthily as we can.

Our support system-

We have been on a mission for THE PAST TWENTY YEARS!

To bring health and well-being to our FAMILY first-

And then FRIENDS and COMMUNITY all up and down the East Coast.

TEAM GENERATIONS was formed TWENTY YEARS AGO!

Mother and two daughters – all the grandkids(GENERATIONS)-

And today it has grown –

Families and children and their children-

Healthy living –

FRUITS – VEGETABLES – BERRIES and OMEGAS!

INGESTING THE RECOMMENDED AMOUNTS directly into the BLOODSTREAM!

CAPSULES – GUMMIES and POWDER for drinking!

For each adult who subscribes and orders –

They can sponsor one child, 4 to 19,

FOR FREE!

And in college –

19 to 25!

Just pay the shipping!

That is a deal to help your generations of children to age as healthy as you can.

I will post the website –

YES, SHERRY has her own website-

No obligation –

Just to read – see the research-

And order if you want to.

TEAM GENERATIONS –

TWENTY PLUS YEARS –

YOU TOO CAN BE A PART OF IT!

AND YOU CAN OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET JUST AS SHERRY DOES!

HER EMAIL and PHONE NUMBER can be found there,

And how to do this for $50.00 a year!

WEBSITE: www.https://sfitzsimmons.juiceplus.com

THE PAST HAS CONTINUED ON INTO THE PRESENT

PAPA and SHERRY – GETTING CLOSER TO 80 THAN 70!

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