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Papa’s World – Fun with pictured memories!

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Ella, Cassidy, Bode, Maddy, and Taylor.

This was Maddy’s senior year in high school, and Ella was a Sophomore!

For one year, they played together at James Wood High School.

They both went on to college and had successful soccer careers.

Both were named as captains for their teams.

The three younger cousins would go to their games and cheer them on.

Today, Cassidy is a cheerleader – a gymnast –

Taylor is a horse rider, plays the violin, and is trying out for basketball.

Bode plays soccer, flag football, and lacrosse!

FUN WITH A PICTURED MEMORY!

A little humor for today!

Papa and Sherry during the pandemic.

During this time and later-

We both caught COVID!

THREE TIMES!

But – we survived although very sick.

Being a SENIOR –

We try to protect ourselves as much as possible!

NOT A FUN TIME IN MEMORIES!

For TWENTY PLUS years –

We have been taking Juice Plus-

And running our home-based business.

Aging healthy and supporting our lifestyle monthly!

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

I learned a lot from him before he passed away in 2001.

A MEMORY OF A FUN TIME IN OUR LIVES!

Sherry’s mother ( Barb ) and father ( Bill ) taken about the time they were married.

Barb’s mother was born in Sweden –

And they lived in Mount Jewett, Pa.

A 1800s town founded and built by the Swedes.

FUN WITH PICTURED MEMORIES!

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Papa’s World – Memories – Pictures and fun times.

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A trip back in time –

Taylor- now 15 years old –

Sarah – now 19 years old –

And Cassidy, now 15 years old.

This picture was taken at the patio of our home in Brambleton, VA.

They were always playing dress up

Faries – Mermaids and many other characters.

I look back at this and wish we could all go back in time!

MEMORIES – PICTURES and FUN TIMES!

She reached for her MORMOR’s hand as they walked together across the parking lot-

At Community Lutheran Church in Staerling, VA.

Sherry ( MORMOR- Mother’sMother) and Taylor.

She has always been that way –

Reaching for my hand as we walk together.

I hope to never see this end

But as they get older, it may!

MEMORIES – PICTURES – and FUN TIMES!

Hoping this is true as they get older!

Andera and Troy – my oldest son.

On their visit to Crooked Hammock.

Making memories – and hoping we see them down here once more!

Showing them the area as much as we can.

MEMORIES- PICTURES and FUN TIMES!

Maddy is a senior and Ella is a Sophomore at James Wood High School.

The only season they were on the pitch for soccer at the same time’

In High School.

They both went on to play soccer in college.

Maddy at the UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG –

And Ella at RANDOLPH COLLEGE.

Here they played against each other for two years.

Both captains for their own teams!

MEMORIES – PICTURES and FUN TIMES!

Debby and Sherry at a Juice Plus event dressed in the 50s style!

Mother and daughter working in the health business-

Now going on twenty-plus years!

MEMORIES – PICTURES and FUN TIMES!

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Papa’s World – Fun times in pictures!

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Above – H.S. and Grade School buddy – Bob.

Pam is his wife, Sherry, and Diane is our neighbor.

They stopped by for a visit on their way North to N.H.

We see them at least once a year.

Here we are at INLET VIEW – for lunch/dinner!

FUN TIMES IN A PICTURE!

We were neighbors in Portville, New York, from the mid-80s to the mid-90s.

Cindy and Buck!

They sold their longtime home and moved to Wilmington, N.C.

Eventually, building homes in Magnoilia Greens, Leland, NC.

We stayed in touch and have traveled the world with them on vacations.

Today, we live about 38 miles from them-

and still get together.

This was taken at OIB FISH COMPANY on the ocean side of the causeway to OIB.

FUN TIMES IN A PICTURE!

A group of longtime friends.

On our way to Shakleford Island to see the wild horses.

I have known one couple – Jim and Dottie – in the middle –

Since before Sherry and I were married-

All three of us grew up in Eldred.

Craig and Debbie, we met through Jim and Dottie –

And Craig, seated next to Debbie on the left of the picture-

Grew up in Sheffield, Pa.-

Close to where Sherry was raised in Mount Jewett.

FUN TIMES IN A PICTURE!

We all travel –

and stay,

and play golf together.

And this is so true to all our games! LOL!

Troy and Shawn –

My two sons-

They still live back in Pa., where they were raised.

They have both been to visit us at OIB.

Looking forward to them coming again.

FUN TIMES IN A PICTURE!

Three couples who knew each other in the NVA!

Today, they live near us in OIB, NC.

The lasting friendships have now made their way to N.C.

Jim – Papa – Sherry – Ginger – Jason and Claudia.

FUN TIMES IN A PICTURE!

April and Brian, her husband-

Sherry and I worked with Brian back in Olean at Dal-Tile.

We left in 1999 and transferred to NVA.

The Olean plant closed in 2012, and Brian transferred to the Gettysburg plant.

We have seen them in our area and gotten together with them.

Soon, they will be retired and moving somewhere to a warmer climate.

FUN TIMES IN PICTURES!

When family visits –

Debby, Sarah, Ella, and Sherry.

I like to take them to visit “FAT HAROLDS” in North Myrtle Beach.

For almost 80 years –

The dance called “THE SHAG” has been the rage on the Carolina coast.

And “FAT HAROLDS” is in the center of it all.

Walk through the JUKEBOX door into the world of dancing.

North Myrtle Beach is the “SHAG CAPITAL” of the world.

FUN TIMES IN PICTURES!

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FAMILY – FRIENDS and where we live in Cameron Woods Community-

Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

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Papa’s World – Great times and memories!

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How true is this!!!! LOL!!!!!

My life has been full of doing things!

From after H.S. to playing basketball for a radio station!

Playing softball for over ten years-

Then remarried and played co-ed volleyball with my wife.

At one point in my life before remarrying –

I rode a motorcycle for 8 years!

And I even had long curly hair! LOL!

After volleyball, we took up golfing!

And we both attempted to go golfing today!

We have now been married for over 43 years!

We are living out our retirement in OIB- N.C.

In our time together –

We have bought and moved SIX TIMES!

Three of those times, building homes!

Our life together has journeyed from NYS –

To NVA –

And S.C. and now N.C.

We both retired from the same company with a combined service of –

79 years!

FRIENDS! We lived as neighbors to Buck and Cindy at Pleasant Acres Drive-

Outside Portville, N.Y.

We now live 38 miles apart in N.C.

In the forty years we have known them –

We have traveled the world on vacations!

Many adventures –

And to this day, we still get together to golf –

See entertainment-

Dinner -enjoying the company after all those years!

So true in our life together!

My two sons – Troy and Shawn!

They still live in NWPA in the area they grew up in!

Always on my mind!

FAMILY means a lot to us!

For us, it started on 6-25-1982 –

The day we were married.

Time has gone by –

But we still make memories.

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Papa’s World – Great days and Good times.

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Out to dinner at Inlet View –

With H.S. buddy – Bob and his wife Pam-

Our neighbor Diane and Sherry.

They were in the area looking for a place to do a year’s lease and found it!

Come October, they will move in and see for a year if they like the area.

We were in grade school, Jr. High, and High School together.

Reconnecting after all those years –

Now, playing golf and showing the area we found has become our home.

Great days and Good times are ahead.

LOL – you just have to have a sense of humor to play golf – at least I DO!

In the Fall and Winter –

We have options.

Walking – dressed warm –

Beach or neighborhood.

We left the snow and ice behind.

The sand and surf.

Yes- it can and is chilly.

But we chose this life here in the Carolinas.

MAKING GREAT MEMORIES AND GOOD TIMES!

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Ocean Isle Beach –

And in the distance –

North Myrtle Beach and Cherry Point.

We now call this our beach destination.

Making GREAT TIMES and GOOD MEMORIES with family and friends!

When two of our granddaughters visit-

Quality time overlooking the ICW!

A look back at making GOOD TIMES AND GREAT MEMORIES!

Staying healthy.

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Papa’s World – Moments in time with pictures!

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Debby – Papa – Sarah and Sherry!

She has since graduated from H.S.

And now enrolled in college.

Here – we visited her at her school when she was young!

That smile and her cheerful disposition-

Makes this a –

A MOMENT IN TIME WITH PICTURES!

On Sherry’s bucket list of places to visit-

EPCOT for the FLOWER FESTIVAL!

We finally made it in the Spring and were not disappointed.

The many brilliant flowers were just as we imagined!

THIS IS A MOMENT IN TIME WITH A PICTURE!

My youngest son won first place in a pool tournament.

One of dozens, if not hundreds, of times winning.

He is a ranked pool player who has often played in Las Vegas.

Proud of this young man!

A MOMENT IN TIME WITH PICTURES!

Sherry and I are in our third year of volunteering for the Protection of Sea Turtles –

At Ocean Isle Beach!

Here is one of many nests we have helped on to make sure after hatching –

The baby Sea Turtles make it safely to the Ocean surf and water.

Being retired –

Volunteering –

gives us meaningful activities as we get older.

A MOMENT IN TIME WITH PICTURES!

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Papa’s World – Summertime fun!

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We had a great summer –

family visited –

vacation – trip back to NVA –

Concerts in Sunset Beach-

and Ocean Isle Beach –

Endured a Tropical Storm.

Friends – golf – beaching –

I look around –

and I am amazed that we are here!

I always dreamed it-

but I thought it was out of reach.

We have made new friends –

Old friends have moved close by.

Other old friends come to visit.

We have watched the seasons come and go –

and we know this was the right choice for us.

The health care system for us is excellent.

Shopping – gas and food-

is only a couple miles away –

Yet when you enter our neighborhood –

Tall pines – lush undergrowth –

and yes wildlife exists here also.

We have a beautiful pool and community center –

we volunteer at several venues.

Ocean Isle Beach as seen from the Causeway Bridge spanning the ICW!

We are about four miles from this bridge –

We can come here whenever we want

We walk this beach for shells-

and Sunset Beach as it is more level.

We have open-air concerts at both beaches –

We have made friends here on the island.

We stay in contact each year with my grade school friend Bobby and his wife Pam.

We have visits with them for about a week every year.

LIFELONG BUDDIES!

Our old neighbors back in WNY-

and we now live some 38 miles from them.

We get together often for golf-

or just talking and dinners.

They were all friends back in NVA –

And now all are in either S.C. or N.C.

And close enough to come together –

for lunches and dinners-

or just visit each other!

We have made new friends with Diane and Steve-

who we found out

also, we are from WNY!

They have a cottage on Rushford Lake –

and knew the area we were from!

SMALL WORLD –

and now they are our neighbors here in OIB!

All these years –

and still to this day friends.

We are now all retired –

and still get together every four to six months!

We all now are transplanted from WNY & Pa. to N.C.

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Papa’s World – Remembering the GOOD TIMES!

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Papa – Sherry – Les and Ingrid taking the picture.

Les and I played softball together back in the mid-70s –

They had been on their way back to WNY and stopped at a campground nearby –

We got together for the day and here we are at Holden Beach –

We stopped at one of our favorite places to have ice cream –

THIS WAS GOOD TIMES once again revisited!

Tammy holding Taylor and Marcus holding Cassidy –

The twins were born on their mother’s birthday –

It was “TIME,” the doctor said!

They were so small – today at 13 Taylor is 5’71/2 inches and Cassidy is 5’5″ and gaining!

“GOOD TIMES ” revisited!

We have so much to be grateful for – living life to the plus – one day at a time!

Our neighbors who live but three doors from us – in Cameron Woods Community –

Diane and Steve – small world – they also are from WNY and have a vacation house –

On Rushford Lake – a few miles from where we lived –

And frequent Olean, N.Y. all the time as we did when we lived in Portville, N.Y.

New “GOOD TIMES” as new friends!

Bill and Marcea – our neighbors in Cameron Woods Community –

We took them to “FAT HAROLD” the “SHAG” club in North Myrtle Beach –

and they loved it – next time we go we will learn how to dance the “SHAG”!

New neighborhood FRIENDS – “GOOD TIMES”!

Solo Stove campfire in the back patio – with family –

“GOOD TIMES” in the making!

Not this extreme – but I have seen some that are! LOL

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Papa’s World – FUN TIMES in N.C.!

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True – but it seems it is always the last long shot I hit – that keeps bringing me back!

Golfing – we love to be out there in the air – green fairways and nature.

Mostly relaxing but at times frustrating! LOL

One of our many reasons for moving to the borders of N.C. and S.C.!

We both stand against RACISM – one of our core beliefs –

living here – we have seen it –

but – we also have seen the opposite –

giving our time to help others –

that is the way we are!

LOL – yes – this is true for me! But – I am also up to see the sunrise each morning –

I have been this way all my life – living life to the plus one day at a time!

We have so many memories with our friends over the years – we now all live in the South – in N.C.!

We try to get together every three or four months!

Friends since the 70s!

Two of my best friends – going back to the mid-70s and early 80s!

Many times we have gotten together – golfing and just talking!

Fun times!

Here is where we decided to live after searching – we found our “HOME”!

Quiet – five to seven miles of walking –

deer- turkey – and other wildlife –

yet we are close to North Myrtle Beach and Wilmington!

Our oasis in the South!

My son Troy and his partner Andrea – have been here once and will be back!

My son and his wife – Trisha and Shawn – have visited and will be back!

Family means a great deal to us –

one of the joys of our lives –

And FUN TIMES when they visit!

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Papa’s World – Good Times in Pictures!

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Three oldest granddaughters – at Lake Anna for my 60th birthday!

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Alawys a sunset from the park in Ocean Isle Beach behind the stage!

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Spending time with the youngest granddaughters.

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Christmas at home with Sherry and her sisters.

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Mount Nebo Lutheran Church in Mount Jewett, Pa.

Sherry attended this church growing up – built by the Swedes in 1886!

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Go to Sunset Beach clear on the West end – park and walk down the beach – this becomes Bird Island-

1 1/4 miles you come to THE KINDRED SPIRIT mailbox- take out the journal and write a thought –

People have been doing this for almost 1/2 a century!

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Always a good time with friends – trips – vacations – just get together.

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

Part of our family – grand dog MARLEY!

GOOD TIMES IN PICTURES!

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Papa’s World – Reflections of time and memories.

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Good day everyone – time for humor and reflections of times and memories!

Long ago – Ella – now 20 – Maddy – soon to be 23 and Sarah – soon to be 17 – in our eyes – Priceless memory!

Insert humor here! LOL!

Our granddaughters now – Ella – Maddy – Sarah – memories of today – into the future from the past!

My long ago memory of the first school I attended – grades 1 through 4 – past memory – a long time ago!

Living life in the valley – climbing mountains – sunrise and sunset – memories of life.

Our little twin girls – Cassidy and Taylor many years ago – memory from the past!

Today – memory from the present – Taylor and Cassidy – and into the future – memories to be made.

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Today MEMORIES are being made from REFLECTIONS OF PAST MEMORIES!

Papa’s World – Family time spent together.

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Family time – father and daughter – PRICELESS!

Papa – Ella Maddy ( her boyfriend Kendrick) Sherry – we stopped in Lynchburg, Va. on our way back to OIB to see them and have breakfast.

Both granddaughters are in college there and Maddy will graduate this year.

Fun time even though it was short – granddaughters!!!!!!!

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Marcus – Taylor – Tammy and Cassidy – both granddaughters straight “A” s for three semesters in a row!

Cassidy did this besides practicing for six months for the play The Little Mermaid!

Taylor – who loves horses and rides every week and sometimes works in the stalls.

They went out for a treat for the straight “A” s.

Cassidy – Tayor and Bode – grandkids – visiting them in Leesburg, Va.

GRANDKIDS – TAYLOR – SARAH – BODE – CASSIDY cousins!

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Papa’s World – Times gone past – our life together.

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In the nearly 42 plus years we have been together – we are thankful for all we have! BLESSED!

While living near the nation’s capital – we were at many Nationals games – memories of a World Series – division titles!

Before Bode and when grandkids were young! Taken almost 12 years ago – the twins were not walking then.

After Bode – the twins are now 12 and Bode is 8! Maddy graduates from college and Ella will be a junior in college. Sarah will be a junior in H.S.

Some SENIOR HUMOR – been there done that! LOL Living life to the plus one day at a time!

Papa and MorMor with the grandkids – a few years ago. Bode loves Ella! The memories of times past! PRICELESS!

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SHERRY AND PAPA – in wine country in California – living life to the plus one day at a time! MEMORIES!

Papa’s World – Family in Lynchburg, Va.

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Granddaughter Ella and Sherry – she is now taller than her grandma!

We came to Lynchburg, Va. for a family get-together and to watch both granddaughters play each other in college soccer.

Maddy is a senior at the University of Lynchburg and Ella is a Sophomore at Randolph College.

Both are starters on their teams.

Maddy is a senior.

Our daughters – Tammy and Debby.

Tammy’s family would join us later in the week – she came down with Debby and her family.

Family fun time.

Sarah and Ella – sisters – Sarah a sophomore in H.S.

It was a fun time exploring Lynchburg – family time together.

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Papa’s World – Part two – When you push pause – MEMORIES come alive!

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This is part two – when we pause the TV – all of a sudden the screen saver becomes MEMORIES –

Pictures start rolling through of the past and we find ourselves just watching them!

Fourteen years ago – the Myers family.

Today they are grown up – two in college – one in H.S. “MEMORIES”!

Today the Myers family – “MEMORIES” to be made.

Today – college for two – H.S. for the other – camping – hiking – sunrises – sunsets and campfires.

Seven years ago – Christmas past – all six grandkids
Today Christmas present with all six grandchildren.

Time has passed – memories and now new memories.

LOVE THIS!

So many memories – so many great times – so many thoughts – so much love – so much family!

Ten years ago – Tammy and the twins
Eight years ago – the twins
Six years ago – the twins
And now this past Christmas – the twins and Bode.

Past memories – present memories in the making – PUSH PAUSE – and sit back and watch!

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Papa’s World – Smile a little- Happy July 4 th.

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Every once in a while – you just have to sit back and see the funny side!

GOOD THURSDAY MORNING

As we prepare to celebrate our NATIONS BIRTH – have a cup of brew –

Take a sip and relax – read the paper or better yet – some funny stuff !

In the eye of the STORM !

Political ” STUFF ” is just that –

sometimes go to the back page and smile

At all the advertisements –

Release your inner self – look at the funnies !

Be creative

See what is in front of you and be creative –

Smile for it could make your day !

Guess he got fooled

Sometimes – you just have to know – you are smarter than them !

Look in the mirror – you own it – make the best of it – and make the change.

One of my hero’s

Don’t fool yourself – it is a waste of time –

Be proud of who you are –

There is only one of you !

No matter what – either one works !

It all comes down to the ” SPACE” between your ears !

You be the judge – you determine –

after all – it’s your mind – it’s owned by you

Your dreams are your escape – your memories are yours –

Think back to your childhood – the good moments –

They belong to only you !

Look at the bright side – at least you have one –

You decide –

But feel good – look positive – emotions play a big part of this !

Surround yourself with TRUE FRIENDS and FAMILY –

They believe in you !

At the end of the Holiday

Take this day and recharge yourself – family – friends –

But always remember – there is a funny side out there –

You just have to look for it !

You just can’t make up this reality into fiction !

Sherry and Tom

I hope this brings a smile to you –

A good vibe –

A HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY !

From us to you

HAVE A GOOD FUN DAY !

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