EMSS

Richard Manuel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hsp4SBwO4&feature=player_embedded

2 Pretty Gals

Gumpa sure loves these 2.

Thank you & Goodbye to Summer

Charlie and I enjoyed a few days at the shore with Jim, Marg, Will & Liz.

All enjoying the fine weather.

Castles to make the beach our home.

 Charlie actually went in the water.

 Our lovely hostess.

We got to celebrate Jim's b-day a few days early. I hope he got more cake on his birthday.

We spent a couple of days in NYC/Brooklyn and got to see Will & Liz perform.

Thank you all for a fine visit.

The Old Crocodile

The Old Crocodile par pixeltoo

2.5

Leah & Will worked up for their first day of pre school.

A little lovin

The Story Of Little Suck-A-Thumb

One day, Mamma said: "Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But mind now, Conrad, what I say,
Don't suck your thumb while I'm away.
The great tall tailor always comes
To little boys that such their thumbs,
And ere they dream what he's about,
He takes his great sharp scissors out
And cuts their thumbs clean off,-and then,
You know, they never grow again."

Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back
The thumb was in. Alack! Alack!



The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long red-legg'd scissor-man.
Oh! children, see! the tailor's come
And caught out little Such-a-Thumb.
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast,
That both his thumbs are off at last.

Mamma comes home; there conrad stands.
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands,-
"Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come
To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb."



Dad told me Nanny Brown/Simpson used to read this story to her grandchildren. Nice, huh?! The illustrations are great and I've got a whole book of them if you're interested in more charming ways to rear you're offspring. Or your offspring's offspring. One Snip! Snap! Snip! and they'll listen!

Also a few pictures from our visit to LBI. Once that hurricane Irene hit the road, we managed to get in a few beautiful beach days. Thanks to Marg and Jim for another fun visit.

comin off the bus... day one

emss, still smilin 8 hrs. later

waitin fer the bus... day one

emss, 1st grader

Family Values

the winds of irene

wallop treetops.

thought you old treetops visitors might enjoy seeing what irene did to the old homestead. power was out until this morning. four entire trees down. dozens of large branches. bushes ripped out of the ground. sections of fence crushed. basement of main house flooded.

all of us in this part of jersey are glad it didn't blow half as hard as predicted. some gal, that irene