We left Long Island Sunday morning. I rode with daughter Kate to New Jersey, and we spotted John on the road ahead of us after we went over the George Washington Bridge. We were in plenty of time to go to her church at 10:30. It was in the church library that I spotted these amusing signs. The first says “chillderen libery” with libery corrected to liblery. Can you read that sentence aloud without laughing? I suspect a child made the sign, and a “chilld” would be able to read it.
The second sign was more sophisticated. One thinner “A” was inserted in ARCHEOLOGY. To tell you the truth, I don’t read all caps easily. I would have missed that mistake if the correction hadn’t been so evident.
We had breakfast/lunch with Kate and Michael before starting home.
Thankfully, the drive to Virginia was uneventful, as were the last six hours home. The first thing I noticed when we walked in the kitchen was that Rose and John $pencer had cleaned all the counters. Things were much neater than I had left them. I count that as a gift!
John said we drove 2,345 miles in that one week we were away. I might have felt it if we hadn’t stopped to visit wonderful people every day. The first day and the last were the only ones that didn’t include other folks. It was a most satisfying trip, one that gave us many happy memories.
Mehrling Muse 
Thank you for sharing your memories with us. Your narrative made it sound like a great trip! Now for spring.
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It’s snowing here tonight. I’m disappointed, only because I can’t see it.
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No snow here. Just blustery winds.
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You must have left a lot of happy memories behind too. Thank you for the spelling lessons.
Huge Hugs
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I’m glad I don’t have to look at all the mistakes I’ve made in this blog.
xxx Wordy Hugs xxx
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Loved being with y’all – my very dear friends 💜🥰💚
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We are so glad we were able to see you. Special times!
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Thanks for taking us along with you! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and never left our cozy fire😊
Always enjoy your posts!
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Thank you, Ruthie. I enjoy your posts, too. Isn’t blogging great?
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Welcome back, Anne! 😀 What a fun week for you and that’s a lot of miles. The library sign has me smiling! My spelling as young was atrocious but always made perfect sense to me!
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We should just blame the English language for all our spelling difficulties.
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Exactly!! 😀 Not phonetic at all!
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What a nice trip, seeing your relatives and friends. I love those children’s spelling!
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The signs succeeded in communicating, didn’t they?
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They surely did 🙂
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So glad you arrived home safely after all that driving. What a great trip you had, seeing so many people. Love the signs!
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John planned a lot for us, and we were able to do it all.
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Apparently chillllderen neeeeed morrrrre spelllllling lessssssons! 😀
Re “archaelogy,” according to thefreedictionary.com (my online go-to), both are acceptable. I think the spelling with the a, as also in paediatrician, paedophile, etc. is the British spelling. No?
Lovely photo of your daughter & hubby! xox
Always good to get back home, I find that too!
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I asked Echo for the spelling and got the extra “a” version. I don’t know what dictionary it uses.
Today we drove about six hours to bring grandson Nathaniel home for term break. It’s wonderful to be home and have both grandsons with us.
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Lotta driving but all so worth it!
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I wish someone would come into my house and clean my counters while I am away! 🙂
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I wish you had cleaner-uppers, too. Mine are delightful.
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Welcome home. Have you ever written about why you moved from Long Island? Clearly you made lifelong friends there.
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We lived in the same house for 45 years, so Stony Brook was our home. We couldn’t afford the real estate taxes unless we both worked full time. After we retired, we moved near our son in NC. I always loved mountains, and John agreed to move here. As John says, we lived our first fifty years in NY, and we’ll live the next 50 in NC. We love our neighbors and church friends here, too.
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That is appalling about the taxes. I am glad you had a place you loved to move to.
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The taxes on our moderate house on Long Island were over $15,000 a year five years ago. Our present house in NC has more square feet, and our tax on it is $2,000.
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Holy Cow!
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Yes, it’s rather shocking. We have a little more spending money now.
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I can well imagine.
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You have it made Anne – a great vacation, and a clean house when you return. That’s a lot of miles and I was all proud of myself because I am at 7,200 miles on my 10 1/2 year-old car. 🙂
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We put on a few more miles yesterday, going to Charlotte to pick up Nathaniel. We were on the road between five and six hours.
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Oh, Nathaniel must be on Winter break … that’s nice he is home with the family for a visit. You really do travel a lot Anne.
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We might travel more than the average couple. Retirement means we now have time for it. For 25 years we never traveled more than two weeks a year.
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Yes, and the good thing for both of you is now that you are retired and feeling good, you have many relatives to visit or come to visit you. Your life is full. I remember my boss (at the ad agency back in the late 70s) telling me that he/wife went to Hawaii on their honeymoon and took several day trips and he was sad to see many older, retired couples visiting tourist attractions but their health was not good and most trips were too rigorous for them, so in essence they spent their life raising kids, working and now in their golden years, they could not enjoy their own lives.
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We’ve been blessed with the time and money to travel and see people.
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This was really a memories maker trip🥰
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