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Papa’s World – Beaching it with family!

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We all journeyed to OIB –

for a beach vacation –

twelve of us all together once again on vacation!

Our last beach vacation was before the Pandemic –

This one – Sherry and I –

picked out a house just across the main road to the beach on OIB!

It had room to sleep in 12 –

and 3 1/2 bathrooms-

plus an enclosed outdoor shower under the house!

Here is the beach house we rented –

and the front deck was fantastic to sit on in the early to late evening!

NO SUN!

Underneath – we parked two cars –

and two golf carts.

We wanted to leave room to wash off –

plus put the carts on charge each night.

So we parked two other cars in the driveway –

and just off to the side.

Sherry and Papa celebrating together-

our 75th. birthdays.

Mine was two months earlier.

But – this porch was the center of family group time outside!

At the end of the driveway,

the kids had sparklers –

it was near here that we parked the other two cars

plus another car when her sister and her family visited!

Sherry’s birthday celebration –

Ella – she designed and made each shirt –

twelve of them!

She is so talented and will be a senior in college this year!

Family bonding time on the deck for cocktails!

All in all,

it was a great vacation time to spend with a far-away family.

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Papa’s World – Friends times in PICTURES!

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For years and years – these three have been best friends – DOTTIE – CINDY and SHERRY!

The many times they have had a little too much wine – LOL – have resulted in cherished memories!

Today – when we get together – GOLF is involved – they get a couple strokes –

and are hard to beat – often times one stroke separates the GALS vs. the GUYS!

A lot of laughter results in crazy antics!

Get togethers are usually three times a year – at each other’s houses-

Today we live 32 miles from Buck and Cindy –

And Dottie and Jim just built a house in Edenton, N.C.

About 3 1/2 hours from Sherry and me in OIB-N.C.

Buck and Cindy live just outside Leland, N.C.

LOL – and again I say to Jimmy – “GIVE THEM NO STROKES”!

We are all retired except Dottie who is very close – JIM AND DOTTIE grew up in Eldred. Pa.

where I also grew up!

JIM – SHERRY and I all worked for the same company and retired from that company.

Buck and Cindy were our neighbors in Portville and knew Jim and Dottie from before that!

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Papa’s World – That old house and phone number!

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Funny how that remains in my mind after all these years – that home has been in our family since around 1944!

I grew up there and my mother was almost 98 years old when she passed away.

My mother Mary – everyone knew her – everyone honked their horn to her as she sat on the front porch.

Many – many people would stop just to sit down and talk to her,

That old front porch with the family I grew up with – sister Donna and her husband Bill – my mother and my brother Roger to the right.

When he left to go to college – I moved into his front bedroom when I was eight years old.

There were railroad tracks behind the house and the trains at night with their clack-clack sound would make me sleepy.

Out front was the main street and I could hear the traffic at night.

And to this day I still know the phone number and the post office box number.

Somewhere in the deep recess of my mind is the combination of that P.O. Box!

I left that house in 1967 and in 1982 married Sherry – now here we are 41 years later.

My memories of NWPA and WNY where we spent the first 50 years of our lives – remains in my memories to this day – just like that house and phone number!

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PAPA’S WORLD – THAT OLD HOUSE AND PHONE NUMBER!