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………………….I was recently asked if I had a favorite picture. I knew what my answer was, but I did have to give it some thought….there are so many “favorite pictures”…..If my house were burning to the ground, and I could only take one picture…..I would probably burn with the house trying to make up my mind…..However……this is the picture I know I would save, for many reasons……This was the evening we let everyone know we were together as a couple….We certainly had our ups and downs before our relationship got to this point……but this was it when we declared our love for each other to the world, and never looked back….We look like we are in the Garden of Eden…….I don’t remember a happier time for either of us…..That evening the weight of the world was lifted, and we could just be us…………..YES…….this is definitely my favorite picture!

………………”Promises Kept”………….Since the very day that Jac’s Mom passed away Jac sat in her mother’s room in our home, in a wicker chair, looking out at the Long Island Sound and wrote on legal pads to her mother….EVERY DAY with out fail…years and years of them piling up…..Not only were there these legal pads, but she and her mother saved EVERY card and letter they had given to each other, and every card I gave to her mother and to Jac…..boxes of them. The cards were from her child hood up until she passed. The letters were mostly from when Jac traveled to Europe for work…..They even saved the envelopes!………When Jac became sick, and she was thinking about EVERYTHING…..she made me PROMISE that I would BURN every pad, every letter, every photo I didn’t want to keep and every card……She said she couldn’t bare the thought of any of these ending up in the garbage in some land fill…..She said it would break her heart….I promised her I would do this……It’s been almost six years since Jac’s passing and I haven’t touched a one of them………but…….when Chris and I sat by the firepit with the beautiful full moon that Jac and I looked at, and talked about a million times….I thought this was the perfect time to start……..I really didn’t make an impact, and it will take many sittings at the fire to burn everything, but it was a start….Christopher is aware of this promise, and knows what has to be done…..Now, what to do with these ashes?……Some I will spread in the garden, and some will go into the Long Island Sound with Jac’s ashes and all of my fur babies….and eventually me……….It feels good to to keep this promise.

…………………The SET OF THREE BIKINI BRACELETS…….J412951…… are back in EVERY COLOR, and EVERY SIZE!!!!!!…..If you love the look of fine chains than these are for you…….They sold out but now they are back…..Each chain is a different design so light sparkles and reflects off of them differently………They are UNISEX!!!! I wear mine every day. I have two sets on….the Sterling Silver, and the Sterling with the 18 Karat Gold Plate…….They make a terrific STOCKING STUFFER!

…………………………………….DRINK UP AND SAVE A BIRD!

Jac and I bought this Jack-O-Lantern TEWNTY NINE YEARS AGO in Marblehead, Mass….We were there for her sister Marianne’s wedding. We were looking at all the charming shops in Marblehead and spotted this guy. In all of these twenty nine years he has never stopped saying “HAPPY HALLOWEEN!………………A Happy Halloween to all!!