"Long Time Gone"

WHAT'S HAPPENING - Sorry I haven't blogged in forever! I have been keeping up real well with my book blog - HERE. You can see where my priorities are!
Not much has been happening really, maybe that's why I haven't been posting on here. I do have lots of pictures to catch you up on.

Only one more month of school, then I am off for the summer! Its going to be a very busy summer as usual. I am taking a couple of trips. My usual trip to TN to see my mom and stepdad, which is always a great trip for me. I always enjoy the stay there!
Then of course I will also be going to PA to stay with the hubby and visit all my friends down there.

My big surprise of the summer is that I am finally going to - Maine!!!!! I have always wanted to go to Maine! I am going with my friend Nancy from PA. We are going with a bus tour and we got the last two seats on the bus! We will be going to Booth Bay for the Lobsterfest, YUM! I hope to take a ton of pictures. I think we will be gone for 4 - 5 days (can't remember which). I am VERY excited!

 TV - Television changes over the summer :-(  I hate to say goodbye to all my wonderful shows till fall. But I do get to say hello to a couple of new shows and a couple of summer only shows.
Summer only -
So you think you can dance (SYTYCD) is just starting, yay!
Design Star will be back on 6/9
And The Glades started this week!- I was so excited to be seeing my hottie - Matt Passmore, Mmmmmm

and a couple of new shows -
Under the Dome (CBS) starts - 6/24, From the book by Stephen King
Cedar Cove (Hallmark) starts - 7/20, This is taken from the series written by Debbie Macomber, should be good!

 KNITTING - I have been doing a lot of knitting of course - here's some pics -

 We also have some new visitors for the summer!

 Hopefully it won't be this long till my next post!

Another weekend in PA

 So I got to go and see the hubby's new apartment. It is really nice! I like it better than his old apartment. Its new and modern and has that loft feeling. And... I hate to admit it... but I actually kinda like Williamsport. It is a city so there is lots to do. While I was there I went to Kohls, Starbucks, Panera bread, The Christian bookstore, the mall, a great winery, the original Woolrich store! and drove around and explored!

Here is the hubby's apt. -

Here's the awesome, HUGE, Woolrich store we went to, inside and out. -

Here's the winery we went to. It was about 8 min. from the apt! Yay, great wine too!
Bastress Mountain Winery, visit the website - HERE

Here are some pictures while we were driving around -

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New furniture!

About 6 months ago a spring broke in the bottom of my living room chair - aka "my reading chair". The chair was fine. I was not gonna fall through or anything. But after 17 years it just wasn't as comfortable anymore. So the hubby and I went to our favorite furniture store in Geneva - Lynch's Furniture to look at new chairs for me. I fell in love with the first one I saw! There are 4 floors of furniture and we did go up all 4 floors and looked at every chair and I sat in many of them. But I was still in love with that first one! And... it was on sale!
While I was looking at chairs I also fell in love with a couple of side tables, so we ended up buying those too!

Here is the old chair -

 Here is the new beautiful chair. The color is not good, it is more of a dark sage or olive green. -

And here is the VERY old table (I have had this table for over 25 years!) -

 And these are the new beautiful tables! -

 I like that they are long and thin, they fit perfect on each side of the couch.
Next trip we will be getting the hubby a new chair. And... shhhhh I am hoping to talk him into a new Tiffany lamp for the left side of the couch.
 
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Yarn expedition!

Expedition - an excursion, journey, or voyage made for some specific purpose (such as buying yarn at great sales).

This coming Sat. "Fingerlakes Fibers", my nearest and favorite yarn store in Watkins Glen, is having their annual - CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE!

The daughter is coming over Friday evening for dinner and she will spend the night. Sat. morning we will get up at 4:45 and get ready to leave the house by 5:30 to get to the store by 6:00!
Why, why such insane-ness?  If you get to the store between 6 - 7 you get 40% off your total purchase! So totally worth it! There is coffee and donuts and door prizes! One year I actually won a bag of yarn!  Its all real nice stuff too.
Then after the yarn buying the daughter and I will go out to breakfast to one of our favorite places.

Here's some stuff I have been working on -
Here is hat I made a while back -

 And  here is a scarf I am making to match. I love the colors and the yarn is so soft.

 This is an ear-flap hat I have been wanting to make for a long time. I kinda have a feeling it might be too big around. If it is I may have to rip it out which would be so sad!

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Vacationing in PA

I had a great time in Lewisburg PA as usual! I just love it there!
We went to this place called "The Country Cupboard" and Oh my word! why have we not gone there before? My friend Diane recommended that I go there, she just raved about it and now I see why. It is basically a restaurant/giftshop but the restaurant is HUGE and the gift shop is HUGE! Its like going to the mall. It was all decked out for Christmas. I could not even keep count how many Christmas trees there were, each one decorated with a different theme.
Here are just a few (remember you can click on the pic to get a bigger view).

 Christmas Day evening we took a walk through town. The town is so beautiful, with all the lights, gorgeous historical buildings and homes, and dressed up windows. Right in the middle of town there is a large park (I have shown pics in the past). In the middle of that park is a HUGE pine tree, it was covered with little lights. I don't know how they got them all on there, they must have used a ladder truck, but it was beautiful. None of my pictures really did it justice.

Here are a couple pictures taken out the hubby's window

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