Happy Birthday, Pat!

 SO in keeping with the idea of writing every day -  but changing it to posting a pic every day... here I am writing hahahahaha

Just to mark the day -  Patty's b'day is today!  Here's a cloud pic because they are fluffy and nice.

And here's a cool flowery thing!  Wouldn't it be great if I bothered to find out what they're called?  NAH.  That's work -  this is busy fill in time's all.
I love to make up words. 

With a couple of eyes and a nose, this could be a muppet! 

Catching Up (as usual)

 Here's the pic for 1/11/22

Lovely "Tree Orchids" -  my name for this flowering tree.  It's on the bend of the "campus" and I pass it every day.

New Direction for this OLD Blog!

 Someone said you should write something every day -  even if it's just a small entry about the weather.  I have tried.  I don't keep up -  so here is a new idea.

I will try and post one photo a day on this multi-purpose blog lol... while spending my days in Florida.

I would change the name of the blog... but instead I'll just name it in my head:  

Clouds and Birds and Sunshine and Flowers and Maybe Some Animals Too!

So -  here is the first post!  It was taken out the window on the lanai (yeah. nice word) on the day we arrived.  It was a L O N G drive.  We left on Saturday at 0-dark-30 and arrived on Sunday about 2PM.  Glad we're here, but not happy about this ongoing pandemic.  

TERROR under the house lol

 It's time to pay a visit to our creepy crawly friends
and turn off the outside water.

It begins -  so the cover and door have been removed, the welcome mat is out -  

It's really there so you don't cut your leg open while forcing a "too large" body

into a "too small" window.

Sure. Looks fine.  Clean and neat even if it is only 3.5 feet tall. 
But WHERE do you turn the water off?!?!?

WAAAAAAY over there!  See the red handle?????

There it is! 

But CRAWL OVER THIS TO GET THERE!

Hello, Spider friends.  I come in peace! 

(and hello to the billion legger the size of Long Island)

Now just have to wedge yourself out and climb up to fresh air! 

DONE AND DONE until spring!

BOREDOM

BOREDOM.
Tired old boredom.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Great start

The previous post WENT IN THE WRONG BLOG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

ok.  COPYING AND PASTING -  moving it to THE RIGHT PLACE!

NEW TITLE!?!?

I've decided to take on the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks "Challenge"... and what better place to do it than in my "old" 52 Wednesdays!

Interestingly enough-  I will get a prompt for the week on a Tuesday-  so maybe I won't even change the title... because I will probably create the post on a Wednesday.  I will have to think on this.

So... I've already missed two prompts-  I'm waiting to find out if I can get those and do a quick catch up.

Whether I can- or can't ... I'm looking forward to this little project!

Here's a great place to start- 

These are the Oltmer "kids".  One generation up from "US"   Back Left-  Uncle Billy; Back Right Dad - Charles Oltmer; Front Left - Aunt Florence (Oltmer) Inslee; Center w/ the hat: Aunt Mary Elizabeth (Oltmer) Giordano; and the cutie at the bottom right-  Uncle Chrissy -  Officially Oltman Christian Oltmer.

To put a few things in order:  Uncle Billy had 4 kids: Cathy, Carol, Celeste and Billy Jr.;  There were 3 girls in our family: Pat, Nancy and Mary Beth; Aunt Florence had 4 kids:  Chris, Tom, Marianna and Claudine; Aunt Mary had 4 kids:  Mary Catherine, Frankie, Billy and Charles and Uncle Chrissy had 2 kids Christina and Christian.  Everyone in bold can be found on Facebook!!

Now... all of this is available on our Ancestry account-  but here it is again lol.

WOW.. This is just a beginning-  relationships to post and tales to tell-

I will wait for the official prompt and carry on from here!   FIFTYTWO WEEKS!!  FIFTYTWO WACKY relatives! 

#52Ancestors

These are current pictures from St. Joe's Church in Demarest- a donation from Grandma and Grandpa Oltmer when the church was being built.  The original St. Joe's was where Mom and Dad were married - located at the end of Brookside Ave. in Demarest.  (They lived in Cresskill on Brookside Ave).