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Thompsons Lake

On Monday, March 16, I wrote the news and took it to Altamont.

Later in the day, my granddaughter, Kassi Neal, drove me to the Berne Reformed Church to the NEAT dinner at 5 p.m. This time the menu was fresh vegetables, Irish stew, Irish bread, cupcakes decorated with four-leaf clovers, and ice cream.

Thompsons Lake

On Monday, March 16, I wrote the news and took it to Altamont.

Later in the day, my granddaughter, Kassi Neal, drove me to the Berne Reformed Church to the NEAT dinner at 5 p.m. This time the menu was fresh vegetables, Irish stew, Irish bread, cupcakes decorated with four-leaf clovers, and ice cream.

Altamont

As a young girl, when my family and friends wanted to go to an exciting adventure park, we would pile in the car and go to Lincoln Park near New Bedford, Mass. This was a family owned amusement park similar to Hoffman’s Playland.

Altamont

Having a child can be a very exciting, nerve-wracking, wonderful, and awful experience especially when you are having your first child. We do not really know what to expect, even though we have had loads and loads of advice and counsel from our friends and family.

Altamont

During discussions with new friends there is one question that frequently comes into the conversation. That question is, “Where do you live?” When we answer with “Altamont, N.Y.” we can never be sure of the response.

Thompsons Lake

Monday, Feb. 23, arrived with a temperature of minus eight. I talked on the phone a lot to Kathy and then Pat.

Kassi and I tried to coordinate our dates because birthdays come and we always celebrate them.

Altamont

Cindy, our daughter was in the next room catching up with Christa, her sister, on the phone, when I heard Christa, who lives across the river, say, “Mom that is a nice hairdo.” I am accustomed to hearing compliments from our daughters because they always notice other people and are very quick to let them know that there is something ab