Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A Year...


Sigh...a year has passed since I started this blog and I am no clearer, no richer, and no healthier than one year ago. On the positive side, I have a new and dear friend who I am very blessed to know. This is my friend Noel, with whom I have coffee and share stories of our lives and families. Noel grew up in Dublin, worked in London, then emigrated to the US with his wife. He is the most amazing person and I have come to love him.





Here are some pictures since my last post in 2009...



Our dog Lucy, who doesn't realize she is a lab. She is just another family member with all the rights and privileges of us humans, including sitting wherever she wants, lying on laps, eating anything that she can reach, and loving the cats (which for her includes gently rolling their heads around in her mouth until they look like opposums)!


Here are said kittens just after they came to live here last April...

...and here they are now (too big for one photo so they are separate...)
This is Finn (14 lbs) on the left..............................and Folie (12 lbs) on the right.


In May, I turned uneventfully fifty, at least on the outside. It has been more impactful trying to find a job despite the promise of "age blindness" and I am freaking out a little that I am feeling physically and mentally slower.


The best thing about my birthday (other than my fabulous family and the surprise and low-key party they threw me) was that our garden and yard looked just beautiful! Always a wonderful present each year the first weeks of May!













Summer brought beautiful weather, visits from family, beach runs, barbecues, but no jobs...

Ellen and Alison

Marsh in Sandwich on the Cape

With the fall, we joined a small chorus on Cape Cod led by a fabulous director who also conducts the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. The music we did and are doing is wonderful and, much to my surprise, my voice has not disappeared but is actually dramatically improving under David's fine tutelage! I also joined a small women's a cappella group and discovered fabulous women with whom I seem to blend perfectly. All this is potentially leading to a move closer to the Cape and our new friends. I have applications in to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and hope and pray they might want me...

The inevitable first frost...


Kat's twenty-first birthday...

Folie enjoying pinapple yogurt...

Brian as Farmer Gilman...

Madrigal Feast singers...

And Thanksgiving with everyone...


Big pre-Christmas snowstorm...


And a blessedly downsized Christmas: instead of being depressing, everyone was happy to be with each other and we enjoyed good food and drink. Who needs lots of gifts anyway!!???


2 comments:

  1. Karin, How are you ? Even i stayed away from my blog for over 9 months. Hope you and the family are doing fine. Lovely pictures here full of love and joy. Yes i remember my 50th birthday, no big deal for me but for my family it was. Now i'll be 63 in January and i am not any wiser or healthier.
    Everything looks the same to me except i am not alone with a mobile phone. Enjoy your 50s Karin, best years in life. Wish you all the joy health and happiness in the world

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  2. Nice pitures and post.
    And Oh my god!! The cats are soooo cute! I LOVE cats!

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