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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.

Thanks for reading this blog as a journal of our lives.

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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!

This is my journal of life –

FAMILY – FRIENDS – US – AND OUR LIVES IN GENERAL.

This site is a place for future generations to see who we are –

How we lived-

Where we came from and those who went before us!

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OUR LIVES TOGETHER BEGAN 6-25-1982!

Papa’s World – Past – Present and into the Future!

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The PAST – Here we are with Pam and Bob on a kayak adventure off the marshes on the ICW –

at OIB – in N.C.

They were on a six-year RV excursion –

And each year would stop near us in an RV campground –

And we would spend a week –

doing exciting things – exploring the area

( they are interested in making this area a home base)

Bob and I grew up together in a little town called Eldred –

In the NW of Pa.

Here – we do shots of FIREBALL –

Which one of the groups had a whole bag of little bottles?

Standing on a sand bar at low tide –

Little crabs were all over the place.

We stopped once to get out and stretch our legs.

I believe we had 15 or 16 Kayaks!

It was a fun time that lasted about three hours.

A BLAST FROM THE PAST!

This past Fall –

Bob and Pam once again traveled here –

We spent another week exploring-

Looking at different developments –

Before they went on to Fla. for their winter stay just outside the Villages.

Time will tell if they decide to pull the trigger and find a place to call a home base-

Or – continue with their present home in N.H.

A NEW LOOK AT THE PRESENT!

Sherry and I are on one of our ICW pontoon boat trips!

She had won a day on the water on a pontoon boat –

And we went with family and friends.

Here – I am steering the boat and Sherry is co-pilot.

Before we retired –

our roles were reversed.

I hated driving anything!

She would navigate us through the DC and NVA traffic!

Now – in retirement –

I do most of the driving and she takes care of mapping and directions –

Along with the GPS!

A BLAST FROM THE PAST!

Today – we walk the beach when we can!

Together –

This has become our routine.

Our dream – our life together –

and often say to one another –

“WE LOVE OUR LIFE”!

A NEW LOOK AT THE PRESENT!

Cindy – Dottie and Sherry-

THE THREE AMIGOS!

Here are over forty years of friendships.

To this day, it is still going strong!

many trips –

all over the Country and overseas.

Friends that see each other often at each other’s houses!

Now – all of us live in N.C.

But in the past –

We all lived near each other on the border between PA and NYS!

A BLAST FROM THE PAST!

Today – we still get together with them and Debbie –

meeting up and playing golf for long weekends.

Extending friendships for the present and into the future!

A NEW LOOK AT THE PRESENT!

Who is to say what the FUTURE HOLDS?

Our lives still revolve around those past and present friendships!

Where one walks –

The others are soon to follow!

This is not a SUNSET-

But a SUNRISE on what is to come in the future.

LIVING LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME-

and LIVING LIFE TO THE PLUS!

Looking back to the PAST-

Living in the PRESENT-

And hope the FUTURE repeats from the PAST and PRESENT!

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and as always – HGD!

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Papa’s World – Time – pictures – memories!

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This past Christmas – decorations – lights and colors!

We had one tree outside on the covered porch –

One tree inside in the living room-

And one small tree in the enclosed Lanai!

Sherry does a fantastic decorating job!

I – do both trees that have decorations.

Just a picture for a memory of the holidays!

The same porch from the summer!

We always have flower pots –

but this year the deer have eaten everything we place outside!

I have used all types of sprays – none worked!

I ended up moving the pots inside the porch and near the walls.

That helped but it was always a pain to move in morning and night!

Just a picture of the past summer!

Posting positive thoughts – good vibes and sweet memories!

Papa’s World – for family – friends and a history of who and what we are!

Just a look at our life together.

A look back in time at a sweet memory!

All six grandkids are on the beach.

Memories to cherish –

A time in the past when they all were young!

Today – Maddy is 24 years old!

Just a picture of a time long past for a memorable memory!

A picture of the collapsed Kinzua Via Duct Bridge –

This bridge was built in the 1800s to ferry coal from the coal fields of Pa.

It also is where Sherry was raised a few miles away in Mount Jewett, Pa.

A tornado came through some years ago –

and took down half the bridge where it remains where it crashed to the ground!

Today – it is a Pa. State Park –

and has been converted into a walkway –

Where at the end is a viewing platform with a glass floor!

Here – you can stand on it and look over 300 feet straight down to the floor –

Of the Kinzua Valley where Native Americans once roamed!

Just a picture of Pa. – where Sherry is from!

Here is Maddy –

Taken two years ago at her senior year graduation from the University Of Lynchburg, Va.

She was the oldest in the beach picture of the grandkids!

Just a picture of how grandkids grow up!

A mother with her two daughters –

Debby – Sherry and Tammy!

Swedish genes run deep!

Just a picture of those I dearly love!

My blog each and every day represents to the future generations of us who came before them!

I want to thank everyone who reads these blogs worldwide!

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PAPA’S WORLD!

WHERE THE PAST WILL MEET THE FUTURE!

Papa’s World – CHOICE and CHOICES – your future is in your own logic – the path begins.

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Choose wisely – select carefully – and always think before you leap!

Life is full of many paths to take – one little change can result in whole different life.

Think about this for a moment- what if?

Had you selected a different place to go in your direction of life!

Today’s World would look much different for you.

Those grandchildren that you love so dearly – might not exist.

Those old friends may never have happened.

You might be married to someone else.

You may not be retired but still working and that beach chair never happens!

Dare to be yourself!

Many doors exist for you – either you open or close them. Go through or turn away. The choice you make is owned by you.

Roads are not only straight – but curves and ups and downs come at you fast or slow. You make that choice.

Look around and see where you are and then think – what would have been had I gone another way?

But – do not dwell on the past – look for the things to come – be they small or large – the choice is yours to make.

Choose your path – choose your future and make the best of it you can.

My life would be so different in many ways had I made this or that choice.

I have no regrets – I like where I am – and I like where I have come from.

I choose to write every day – to record family – friends and our life together.

I choose to be me – I own my destiny.

And I am grateful for those choices I or we made.

Choosing to be me – choosing to love – care – God – family – to record it all and preserve it for future generations.

You can choose – you have a choice and you can make Choices – it is all up to you. Be wise – careful and think.

Be brave – daring and look forward – open those doors – go forth or turn away – make that choice.

YOU have the ABILITY to make your OWN LIFE!

Whatever and wherever it leads you – is yours to choose – be kind – have belief – and go forward
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