Who Does This Remind You Of????

This is Bev Garcia. We were good friends with Bev and Bob when we were first married and lived in Redford. We were all active in the Redford Jaycees together. When we had David and Sara, they had Kurt and Elena. Bev was a teacher and Bob was a State Trooper, then he quit and went to teaching. I stumbled upon them on Facebook, they are both retired now and wintering in Zephyr Hills, FL. I thought she bore a striking resemblance to someone I know!

Cyber Monday

Hi,

I'm trying to find out where I can post a comment on one of your blogs. I can post a new one, but not reply to yours in less I do it in the e-mail.

I loved the pictures. Those boats were beautiful, unfortunately, I do not have any recipes for papaya. The video is good too. I could tell Sara was thrilled to have her picture taken. Kayla looked like she had a nice day.

Kyla and I baked pie, corn muffins and stuffed the turkey. She and Rick made lemonade from the lemons in our front yard and then she talked him into washing my Mini Cooper. On Friday, I had Kyla, Rick went to Daytona Beach to look at the cars. Kyla and I made headbands and played a lot.

We started to do a little decorating on Saturday and Sunday, but the tree is still in the garage attic. We should have taken it down while Ryan and Ashley were here on Thanksgiving. Last year even though it is in three pieces we had to use a pulley to haul it up into the second floor. It will be easier to get down, but I should have thought of doing it while help was here.

I'm going to a quilting class tonight from 6-8 and again next Monday night from 6-8 to finish the piecing part. Just what I need, quilting classes during the holidays, but I want to learn this technique and it is only taught at this time.

We gave my old laptop to Ashley and I am using the one Rick used to use as he got a new one. However, he didn't transfer my i-photos and i-tunes, so Ashley will bring it back sometime and I'll have all my stuff again. This one is taking sometime to get used to. Luckily, I had already printed my Christmas labels because I think I lost all that in the transfer. It was an old program that this newer computer doesn't even recognize.

Today, I am going to go to Bealls, Target, Walmart and few others to pick up a few things. I stayed away from the stores over the weekend, although Rick shopped from 5 a.m. until 6:45 a.m. on Friday before he went to Daytona. That's why I have to go to Bealls, he spent enough to get $30 free bucks to be used yesterday or today.

It's going to be 74 today, but it's been down to the 50's at night. It's nice, no heat or AC.

Tomorrow, Rick's brother Bob comes home from Cincinnati. I'll pick him up at 1 p.m. from the airport. His car has been here for a month. I'll also go to Kyla's school and listen to the 1st graders read for an hour.

Okay, this is starting to look like a letter instead of a post, later, love, Marilynn

Baldwin Family Thanksgiving

Here's a movie I put together of 3 or 4 different videos. Playing with my new FLIP video camera and the editing software. This one has Stu, Sara, and Kyla in it.

The Jib is UP, but no wind

It's the day after the day after Thanksgiving and today is the second day of races. Yesterday was single handed. Today more. Just got home from more painting and cleaning to see all the jibs up and trying to turn the corner to enter Coral Bay.

"HANKSPIGGING AT SKINNY'S

Not all the gang was there. In fact, many of the usual locals were not there. We met some new people and saw old friends. It was hot, humid and everyone had bug spray because we have had so much rain and now, the mosquitos are beginning to hatch. Food was great! The whole of Skinny's bar was filled with dishes that everyone brought. They cooked several turkeys and put 2 whole pigs on spits in the yard. One of our friends made some great porter beer for all to taste. No worries about law suits or contamination here. In fact, the guy who put Thankspigging together asked, "Since we have no rules here in Coral Bay, I will just ask two favors, clean up after yourself and only take one plate"

We were home about 6:30.

Nathan's turkey turned out fine. Watch your email for what happened to it.

The picture here is of a papaya that has been growing in the yard by the grill for a couple of months. I think someone just dropped a seed - those little birdies, perhaps. Anyway, looks like we will have plenty of papaya to eat. Have any good recipes for papaya?

The Bird Is Done

Here is the bird (noon Wed) and it is cooked. Now to let it cool a bit and then carve and place in the crock pot in the fridge and turkey sandwiches for dinner tonight!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi you guys and Happy Thanksgiving!

Bert, I am really enjoying the posted pictures and videos. The donkeys are great too, Bets. I know how to send pictures, but we haven't taken any lately. Maybe I'll get some tomorrow.

Kyla is coming here today when Ashley gets off work. We'll have left-over ham. Ryan may come this evening too. I haven't heard from him yet. Kyla will spend tonight and tomorrow night with us as Ashley and Darin are working Thursday and Friday. We'll eat when Ashley gets off work tomorrow around 3:30 p.m. Darin will be going at 7 p.m., so too bad for him! I'll send some home with Ashley. Ryan is coming from St. Simons Island to work on the 5K run tomorrow morning that Outback sponsors in Jacksonville. He will be going to the San Jose restaurant around 6 a.m. to cut up oranges and prepare bagels etc. for the runners. Then they feed them gumbo when they finish. He usually has lots of left-overs he brings us. I imagine he will stay Thursday night and then go back to work in GA on Friday. I have no idea what Rick will be doing. He has been invited to go to the Turkey Trot in Dayton Beach on Friday (muscle cars and flea market at the track) and he also has been invited to go back up hunting. He went last weekend but didn't get a deer. I'd like to decorate for Christmas on Friday when Kyla is here. It would give us something to do and Ashley doesn't do much in the apartment. Ryan would be here to help put the outside lights up and the yard deer, bears, tree, etc.

It is raining like crazy all through the night here and all day today. It is supposed to clear for the holiday. I hope so, the runners don't really like to run in the rain. It's about 60 degrees which is the coolest it has been so far.

I'm glad to hear that you guys want to come to Florida this spring. I think Rick has a meeting the end of April and we have a wedding April 3rd (in town) I'll let you know his dates for sure so you can figure out what's best for all of us.

That's all for now.

Turkey's In The Oven

Turkey's in the oven. We roast it on Wednesday and then pull the meat off the carcass and fill the crock pot with the meat & a little juice. Plug in the crock pot tomorrow (David, Lisa, Bubby, Shania will be here) and that way we can concentrate on making the other food and not have to deal with the mess of the turkey in the kitchen.

I'll post another pix when it comes out of the oven.

Fall View of the Farm

Here's a short video of the farm on a beautiful fall day, shows a pretty good view of the new barn

Aunt Pauline

Betsy,
Read the obit in the Detroit News link you sent. (you can click on the title of this post and be taken to the obit)

I vote we donate $100 to the hospice she was being served by. Also, I think you said there would be a memorial service on Dec 29th and I think that is when you and Bob will be there. So Kathy and I could come up and go with you and see you at the same time?

easter vacation in GA

Looked up the school calendar. Easter break is Wed, April 1 thru Monday April 5 - only 6 days?
There is another holiday on the calendar, Spring break which is April 24-May 2. nine days.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Nathan bought a 15 pound turkey and is cooking for a few friends and Evan. Evan is having dinner with Julie early then on to Nathan's.
Nathan called me from Meijer's to let me know about the turkey. Now needs directions as to prep and making the gravy. at least with Evan there, I'm sure everything will come out o.k. I hope they take pics.

The Last Puppy

Went to the kids tonight to see the last puppy. Of the eight that were born 6 weeks ago, only one is left and they are keeping him and the Mommy (Jasmine). Just as we were leaving, a buyer drove in from New York (an 8 hour drive) to buy the Daddy (Glacier). David and Lisa made the decision to sell Glacier 'cuz he was starting to get aggressive toward the goats, which he's supposed to protect.

Herb & The Golf Cart

Click on the video above.
Brought the golf cart back home from the lake, going to "customize" it over the winter!!

Sunday evening

Very relaxed day today. Sort of forced. We are getting old. Worked the last 4 days at the house in Coral Bay. No renters in either unit, so we are CLEANING AND CLEANING, including power washing and vacuuming and wiping up mouse shit. I don't think any of the tenants ever cleaned cupboards. We hired two young, energetic kids to wash ceilings, fans and walls then we went in and continued on. Yesterday, we were invited to dinner at our friends' rental who are building below us. What a blast. There were 10 of us. she brought wild marinated salmon from NY. We had a little too much Pinot Noir and have crashed today.
good talking with both my siblings yesterday. Hope the Jaguars won.

Easy Saturday Changes Quickly

Well, we got up Saturday morning, drank coffee and watched the news wondering what we were going to do all day ... That changed in a hurry!

Lisa called and told us she was going to the auction to sell the puppies and David was supposed to watch Bubby, but he had to go back down to Columbus to help a friend of his install a new audio system in a church.

Bubby had a doctor's appt (sniffles) at 10am and so we rushed and got our showers and ran off and picked him up and took him to Mansfield (about 1/2 hour away) for the appt. He just has swollen glands, got him some Dimetapp and then we went shopping. Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Lowes ... all the cool places! Bubby liked riding in the shopping cart and Grandma got him a new book about farms and John Deere tractors. He loves the JD stuff.

Friday Morning

Took a Benedryl last night before bed and it zonked me out and I got a full 9 hours of sleep! It's been a busy week with work all day and meetings in the eves.
Meeting a buyer at a house this am, it's only about 1/2 built. He's looking for a good investment. We're meeting the building inspector there to make sure everything done so far is up to snuff.

After that, I'm headed out to the lake to meet a contractor. Earlier this year, we found that our storage shed had been hit and knocked off it's foundation. The contractor is going to jack it up and move it over and set it back. I have to get out there to empty everything out and then put it back in once he's done.

Then off to a Mt. Gilead basketball game tonight where Hospice of Morrow County is going to be recognized by the team during half time as they are doing a commuunity action project for Hospice and the board is supposed to be there to be recoginzed.

I guess otherwise it'll be a quiet weekend, no definate plans, maybe we'll buy a turkey!

nathan's new contract co

google this. Eicher Engineering. Looks like a great company.

Lets all go in together and buy this boat

Hi everyone, This is my first Blog(not sure if understand or want to understand what a blog is)-Even though it's been a tough year financially I thought we could all invest and buy a boat that we would keep here on St. John and use when next you come to see us. Find the link and let me know your thoughts. Bob

Yea, Marilynn

Don't feel badly. It took a phone call from Herb for me to get on and to post a pic. Isn't it cool?
Good news today. Bob has been appointed the line rep for CaRA, Caribbean Association which manages the Caribbean Integrated Coastal Observing System (CICOS). Everything here is appreviated. Anyway, there is a conference in Prerto Rico (PR) Dec. 1. They will pay for overnight and Bob's flight, so I am going for the ride. Interesting stuff.
Nathan's contract company with Toyota went out of business. He got a new company and got a raise of 2.30/hr plus benefits. It's so great. we are excited for him.
going to MI Dec. 26-Jan 9. Helping Nathan paint his house so he can put it on the market in Spring.
Did lots of weeding today as we had so much rain the past two days and you have to get out there while the ground is still moist.
Job for me still has not begun. I'll check the school calendar as to the spring break. I DID think we were planning on going to FL or GA for the reunion this year.

Kathy's Spring Break

Kathy says her Spring Break is the week of April 5-9
Chances are that won't work for Betsy -- If it does, that's great!

Marilynn's On The Blog!

Talked with Marilynn today and got her squared away and now she's "bloggin".

Stu and Sara are coming by for a bit soon (dinner time) but I won't have much time to visit, have a mtg at church at 7pm.

Don't know what we're going to have; leftover baked chicken, leftover meatloaf, or BLT's

Think I'll go and start frying bacon, BLT sounds good to me.

Wednesday Afternoon

Okay you two. I did this one myself after getting off the phone with Bert, couldn't rotate the picture. I think I should have done that before I posted it. This is us in Hawaii in front of the big kahuna at Wackiki Beach. (sp)

Hope to see Ryan today or tomorrow. He will be home again for the Jaguar game on Sunday. Ashley is off all week, she took a vacation, but has no money to go anywhere. She said she would be cleaning closets.

How about the Baldwin reunion. Are you guys interested in coming to Florida/Georgia in 2010? What do your schedules look like? Betsy, will you be working in the Spring?

Later, M

Test with Marilynn

This is a test image talking to Marilynn in Florida. This is cool, eh?

Test with Marilynn

This is a test image talking to Marilynn in Florida. This is cool, eh?

i'm on

Here's Kyla on the 4th of July. She was very proud!

Busy week already

Been a busy week already, work all day in and out of the office and meetings well into the night. I'm bushed, off to bed. Sales meeting tomorrow, tour new listings, do admin stuff in the afternoon. I just sent out about 350 newsletters today, glad to get that going again, hadn't done it for over two years and I needed to get back to that to keep my name in front of my past clients and prospects.
Oh well, g'nite.

FRIENDS

Are these guys hungry, or what?

BOB

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blogging my life away - test of the help page

RAINY DAY TEST

Hi All,
This is a test. Herb, there is no little picture to click on in order to insert the picture. It says Posting in purple, Settings, in blue and View Blog in purple. Then title: Under that, Link
Then a bunch of boxes, the first of which allowed me to pick my font. Now, publish post. I can see all your labels for your prior posts
Are you going to be on FB later or do you want to blog back?

Puppies Ready to Leave

Went to see the kids Saturday night and had a chance to see the puppies one last time before they're all gone to their new homes (6 weeks old now)

Sunday Afternoon

Church this morning, short chili lunch after service, pulled a SOLD sign, worked on cleaning up the Suburban. 214,000 miles and still going strong after spending $700 on radiator,oxygen sensor,plugs,wires,temp sensor,fuel pump,and fuel filter. But now she runs like a "*&%^$#", anyway, runs real good. Guess I'll keep it around for another 100,000 or so.

Fun Time With Bubby At The Park

A good day at the park with Bubby, it's 2:30 now, we're all going to lay down for a nap and then off to the kids tonight for a birthday party for Shania.

Saturday in Ohio

David and Lisa have gone to a "Goat Convention" in Columbus today and so we had dinner with them last night and then took Bubby for the night. G'ma and he are playing with a cool battery operated train.


Click on the video link image to see Bubby & His Train.

We'll probably go to the school yard and the park to play on the swings and stuff as it's going to be a beautiful fall day today (about 60 degreees). Then we'll take him home late afternoon and see the puppies (8 of them) one last time before they're all sold next weekend, they're six weeks old now and time to go.

Guess that's it for now, I'll post some pix later today,

Herb,
Bob wants to call you today re: web stuff. What would be a good time? Did you see Marilynn is on?

Love the pic of all of us. Thanks for sharing. good on you for closing both. What a relief, eh?
Say hi to everyone for us. Ask david, what does it mean if you own a domain?

They Both Closed!

They both CLOSED today! We knew one of them was going to close, but the other looked shaky, but it finally closed at 5pm.

David and Lisa are coming over and we are all (with Bubby) going out to dinner and then Bubby is staying with us tonight and tomorrow while David and Lisa go to sell and buy goats at an auction house somewhere.

Thursday Night

As I suspected, one closing is a "go" for 2pm tomorrow, but the other one is delayed until Monday and my sellers are understandably pissed because this is the third time their buyers lender has needed an extension. Oh well, it will close, just later than we hoped for.

Kathy did some Christmas shopping for Bubby today over in Marion. I got back from Cleveland about 3pm so had a chance to hit the office for a bit. I'll have to post a pix of the house we're living in so you can see our high-flyin' life style.

Hope Marilynn gets the email invite and finds this blog and figures out how to log on and write posts. G'Nite for now,

This is fun

Good news, good week, so far. Many good things happened. Life worked. got other house completely vacated and are now cleaning it. Found two young uns to help us. thinking of renting this house a week at a time and staying in the lower unit over there. Evan is doing great in school, but not yet admitted to the nursing school. Still taking core jclasses, but doing well and highly motivated. Nathan got a 2.50/hr. raise today. He is on cloud nine.
Going to MI Dec. 26-Jan 9. Much thunder and lightening last night and rain. Good. The garden can use it. Trouble is that that allows the weeds to grow along with the plants. Speaking of, we got a beautiful crab claw yesterday at the Ag dept. for only $5.00 and got a lemon grass plant for 1.75 Good deal.
Good luck tomorrow, Herb on the closings

Cleveland Road Trip Thursday

It's 6:18am and we're "up 'n attum" as Dad used to say. The morning news is on, Kathy's in the shower, I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee and checking my email, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.

My broker (Patti) and Nina and I are headed to Cleveland this morning for a regional RE/MAX meeting to hear Dave Linegar (President) speak about today's real estate market and how we can succeed in a down market. Headquarters is in Denver and Dave does these road trips annually. Our regional HQ is Cleveland.

It'll be fun on the way there and back as we get along real well and all have a sense of humor. We'll have a chance in the car for the "water cooler talk" that goes on in many offices but not ours due to the fact that we're all in and out at different times and when we are in we're often meeting with clients or on the phone. Not a lot of chit-chat at our office.

Kathy gets off work early today due to parent/teacher conferences this afternoon and she has her Christmas Club money and so is headed to Marion for shopping. I'll be home around dinner time I suppose.

I've got two closings scheduled for tomorrow Friday, but it's doubtful one of them will close. It's been extended twice now and looks like they'll need a 3rd extension because the lender is slow in getting the deal done. We're assured it will eventually close, but we'll see.

Hospice Today

Here's a pix of what our Hospice Home looks like today,

Wed Morning

For some reason was sick much of the night (Pepto helped) Kathy says it was most likely the Mickey Dee's Sausage McMuffin I had on the way home from Cardiac Rehab yesterday morning, duh!

Looking forward to two closings this Friday, but right now have to head over to our Hospice of Morrow County office building. We've had mold in the attic and the remediators have been there the last couple days and ran into a "situation" late yesterday and they want me to come by. I serve on the Board of Directors and am chaiman of the Facilities Committee so it's my job to stay on top of this. This picture was taken back in 2007 when we bought the building and were doing a lot of remodeling on it.

Kathy's off to work (she walks to work now) and I've got the Today show going in the background.

I'll check in later and see if Marilynn has checked her email to find out about this blog. I'll set it up where we each get an email if there's a new post or comment that way you don't have to go to the blog to check, it'll let you know.
Later, Herb

Morning,
Thanks for setting this up. bob has gone to water the plants. hving coffee before walking this a.m. going to the Agricultural station this a.m. Happy Veterans Day!!

2nd Post by Herb

It's been good lately, we've been moved into the "smaller" place since mid-August and we really enjoy being back in town. Kathy walks to work and I drive only about a mile or so (I should be walking too!) and it's so much closer to church and shopping.

Now with the extension of the homebuyers tax credit and the fact that we now can take advantage of the $6500 tax credit gives us more reason to find something to buy before June of 2010 when the extension runs out.

The cottage is closed for the season, the boat is out and the water lines are drained. I'm tired of typing for now, been at this computer since after dinner and it's now 8:35pm and my rear end is sore, gotta move around a bit.

I'll look forward to seeing you post something here! (I've included a shot of one of the 8 puppies from David/Lisa's group)

First Baldwin Family Blog Post

this is the first post (by Herb) on the Baldwin Family Blog. I need to get it set up so that family members can write posts without my having to approve as moderator.