downton abbey started 5th season past Sunday.....

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MASTERPIECE Downton Abbey

Think I would have to say the Downton Abbey has been my favorite show on TV in 2014. 

If you have Netflix you can see first 3 seasons for sure and I know you would enjoy it.

When we were in Saint John at Christmas time Uncle Don showed us the album his niece gave
him mostly of his birthday party but Malcolm and I were so surprised when we seen this picture of
Nana MacKenney and their dog MacTavish.. Nana MacKenney brought up Malcolm and his brother
George and we were so happy to take a copy of this picture.

  
Everyone loved MacTavish, he was one of a kind for sure, When he died Nana MacKenney lost her
best friend for sure......

Then we looked at a book Donnie had that I had heard about but never seen and were we surprised
when we found a picture in the book Of The grandfather's grocery store....... I heard about it everytime we drive by in Saint John so was nice to see a picture.

MacKenney's store

Lower picture is Uncle Calvin and Malcolm and George's father - Big George as I always called him. lol

burr...cold temperatures

 

 

I had a cold and it was so  so cold last night and this morning so in the house we will stay.

Did go to clinic on weekend to get meds and nose spray to clear up this second bout of

cold, I had been bragging how I had not been sick for a few years, spoke to soon.. It is going

around everywhere.

 

Kate took Gilbert for a walk on the trail behind their house, he loves to get in the woods

for a good run and Susan snapped a picture of them.  This was a rather nice day before

it got cold.

 

I was so anxious to have a steak and cheese pinnini from Tim Hortons so Malcolm

went up and got me one, well I mainly tasted all burnt, so disappointed as they are

really so good.  Oh well  I  ate anyway.....

 

New Years wishes from Pumpkin in Virginia.....

We had a great laugh when we went on ipad and here was pumpkin with her crown

on for New Years eve, so cute... Laurie is checking into hotel and its all decorated

to make guests feel comfortable.  You see the hats on the desk for guests take.

One of my favorite photos taken at a wedding the kids attended in Ottawa, always reminds

me of New Years too..... 

Our first supper of 2015.................

Kate loves owl's, found this one on pinterest  and figured I could

enlarge for her room..

Happy Birthday Anitha

Happy birthday Anitha

Well Anitha starts the year off with a birthday and we are all wishing her the best for 2015 .

Hard to believe its a year since we celebrated with her last year and now its time to think about Myrtle Beach again , a great start to the new year.

Have a wonderful day Anitha....

Happy New Years

Happy New Year to everyone..............Out with the old and in with the new...

Last year on Christmas my daughter gave me a book, she bought it in Chapters and even though she did not believe I would ever write anything in the book she did like the cover.

Well I surprised her and wrote something every single day of 2014...never missed a day and I am so proud of myself.  So I have a new book from Susan to write in this year and another beautiful book from Mac to make notes in or whatever I would like so i'll be busy.

my written pages

book from Malcolm

I hope you make some good memories in 2015 to remember one day or for someone

to read about in the future.

Pat pays a visit

Pat was making a trip down to Moncton on her day off to do some returns so I figured it was a
good day to do mine as well.  Stores were really busy for a Tuesday but then again New YEARS eve is tonight so many people took the holidays through Christmas and New years making for a nice long vacation.

Trent was busy with a hockey tournament in Sussex and they were going back and forth all week, good thing Rob had this week off.

No plans for tonight.....just relax, watch a movie and bring in 2015

Anitha and Rama enjoy their family at christmas

We went up to see Anitha and Rama's family who were visiting from Ontario for Christmas,

the family were so excited to be home for Christmas but not near as excited as Anitha and Rama were

then when they went to Halifax to visit their 4th daughter Anapuma and her family to make the

best gift they could receive in 2014 for Christmas.

With both Mac and myself having been sick with colds before Christmas we had to

cancel 2 get togethers with them so today we had a lovely time and lots of laughs.

Weekend Visit from our little Neighbour

We had a great visit from our dear little Maika and her parents Nadine and Shawn.............they live right behind us and Malcolm loves to give their dog Chester treats when he is outside.

And a little girl is going to be 2 in a few weeks, she has grown so fast and its nice to see little ones again since our grandchildren are growing so fast .

Weather was beautiful this weekend and so Susan and Kate picked me up Saturday to go see a few stores for the boxing day specials, forget the specials.............the traffic was so bad we were just anxious to turn in anywhere we could to get out of it so East side Mario's was the lunch date of the day. lol 

Friends are packing this week heading south, going to miss my coffee buddy but catch you in May. lol till then hear from you on our ipads...

A great christmas for the MacKenney's

A visit from Uncle Stan, Ryan and Erin

 

Well Christmas came to our house and surrounded us with our  family again for another

year.

 

The joke of the night was when Malcolm put a sign on the door which read :

 

of course that upset a few people as seen here:

not a word, everyone eating

and then: lol......Susan ignores the glare, the others keep their
head down...speechless.


lol

I could not resist this and I know my phone will be ringing shortly telling me to get that off  my blog but for now
had to have some boxing day fun, after all I got my blog up and running again. Yeah...

Have a good day everyone

 

Positive thoughts..

For the past few years I have been enjoying one particular blog I try to read

whenever I can, its written by a person who has had a lot of tragedy's in life but

continues to live a very positive life.

A few days ago Tina wrote of celebrating the beautiful spirit of her son she lost years ago.

"I could have missed the pain, but I'd of had to miss the dance.." " When you lose a parent you

lose a part of the past, when you lose a sibling you lose a part of the present and when you

lose a child you lose a part of the future."  Beautifully spoken..

Tina Wallace Zarlenga... "Just a Minuts of my Time" 

Now being the Christmas season people are in the giving spirit, just the other day when

Malcolm went to pay for his coffee at Tims he found it was paid for, a few days later while

in the line up again a woman let us go ahead so we paid her coffee.. Really feels good.

Pay I forward.. 

Meet Liz and Gary at Swiss chalet

Well it's christmas and a time to get together with friends..


Gary and Liz will also be heading to Myrtle beach after Christmas and are so excited to hit the
Road.

I am unable to get into my blog the usual way so shall be ending my blog for now until it's easier to get into.... Blogger appears to be using our blogs to promote people into creating blogs and I do not want my readers to deal with this .  I have enjoyed my time here but shall post my pictures to Facebook.

Gals meet at casino

Another delicious meal at the Casino with the birthday girls (Feb) . We always meet in February but
decided we would get together for Christmas and we didn't realize the time till we left 3 hours later...lol. Oh well we don't get together to often so it was nice to see them.

Sheila made us lovely Christmas cards and did a beautiful job as usual, of course she had a little
treat in her goodie bag for each of us...

Came home and my husband is all stuffed up again, that's 3 colds this year, Susan calls, she has chicken pox, even though she had them as  child. They are really burning and itchy and she is so tired.