Halloween Cookies and Black Cats.

Well today we had our annual "Cookie, Donut and Cider" day,  we had cider and coffee and decorated cookies, we have done this for a few years now and it is a lot of fun.


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The staff bake about 700 Sugar Cookies, provide sprinkles and coloring and let us go.
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Above left is Doug in plaid, Doug is a Veteran.  Linda, Pam and Darrell,!
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Nathan, Bruce and Jim waiting for cider.
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Jim and Ellie with some of the frosting we used up decorating cookies.
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Edie and Kathy decorating cookies.
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Jean, Mary, anna and Mark.
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Al is a Korean War Veteran, Shirley works here and Pam.
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Bruce, Jim who is a WWII Veteran and Dennis.
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Some cookies we made then ate !!!
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Dave is a Navy Veteran and his wife Grace.
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These 2 "Cats" are our Building Manager and Assistant who do all these great things for us.
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Don't forget, Remember our Vets !!!
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What beautiful weather we are having up here in the "North Country",  is was 72, sunny and no breeze,  my daughter Sabrina and her Husband Ed went swimming in the Black River yesterday.
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I sat down and weeded and cut back the Glads, thinned the Hen's and Chickens, potted some coleus and hens and chickens for a lady upstairs and disturbed a bed of "wolly bears" !
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The "wolly-bears" say it is going to be a long snowy winter by the amount of brown and black on them.
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The hanging baskets are still growing and blooming .
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.Our ground plants are still in bloom and surviving, we have not had any killing frosts yet!
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We played for the Skilled Nursing Unit at Carthage Area Hospital and the residents enjoyed the music, Millie turned 105 years old, Richard, Paul and Fred enjoyed the music, David sang along and the ladies did some toe tapping and clapping, what a pleasure it is to be able to do this for the residents.
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HAPPY 238TH BIRTHDAY 10/13/13/ TO THE US NAVY.!

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Well another beautiful day, sunny, over 70 degrees, shorts and t shirts and a beautiful day to spend outside.    It is archery season but deer are no where to be found.
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We went down to the Black River  and walked the park to enjoy some quality time togeather.
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We re parked the Camper and set it on boards and tilted it for winter storage, will set it up once more to put moth balls inside to keep the mice out.
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I have never seen so many acorns as I have this fall, the trees are loaded with them, so many the squirrels and chipmunks pass them by, squirrels look really fat.
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We went to JHRECK Subs today and got a sub and went down to the Village Park and had a little picnic. 
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We drove around and noticed there are lots of apples, we found this tree right beside the road, normally the apples are small and tart, these were large, bright red, and sweet.
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The trees in our yard are turning and  going bare.
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                       Don't forget, remember our Vets!!!
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Visit to Old McDonalds

 

It is warm, sunny, above is what is coming, I hope I am healthy enough to get out and away from this for awhile this winter.
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Well as we end September and head into October next week it has been great weather, sunny, warm, very little wind, the leaves are changing fromm green to great fall colors.
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We took the Grandson and went to Old Mc'Donalds Farm in Sackets Harbor for our annual trek to the farm.  This year was as much fun as last year.

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Old McDonalds has animals, a corn maze, barns, cows, bunnies, chickens, goats, a camel, horses, donkeys, pigs, turkeys and all other types of animal, fish and foul.
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The Goats love popcorn, thankfully they did not bite but did grab my Honey's hand.
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Brent and I feeding the "Hog", this thing was huge and had some awful mean looking tusks curved around his jaw!!!
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Outside the Raindeer shed we stood in the shade, it was hot in the sun, but "Frosty" didn't melt.
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This Raindeer has been at the farm a long time, his antlers are in the "Velvet" and he is kind of mean right now and didn't like his picture taken as he hit the fence with his antlers.
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.Brent with some shed antlers!  We have been coming here for over 20 years and each visit is intere4sting.   They have a restaurant, ice crème shop and souvernier shop and sell flour, syrup, honey and other items.
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.This is our 12 year old Grandson, he is gonna be a "Big-Un" !!!   We love him !!!
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This is the only type of Golf  I play !!!
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We went on a "hay ride" out to see some more animals and the "Land of Oz" !
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This is "Daddy Long Legs", this thing is 8 feet tall, I forgot what type of a bull it was.
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Daddy Long Legs simply reached into the wagon to be fed hay, he is big !!!
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The farm has a big Corn Maze, it has the Wizard of Oz theme, it is easy to get lost in and also fun to wander around in,  the corn this year is big, over 8 feet tall and the corn has big ears of corn, lasy year was a drought and the corn yield was really poor.
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We finally met up at the castle.
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Anna Mae found the flying monkeys.
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I found the Old Witch!!
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We came out of the Maze, in back of us is the huge Pumpkin Patch, they had some monsterous pumpkins and the cost $$$$$$$.
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In the barns were donkeys, horses, miniature horses and they do bite.
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Anna Mae and Brent on the "Billy Goat Gruff" bridge.
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It was hot, the Alpacas layed down, this one is sunning his belly,  we noticed they would come and throw water on the huge pigs. they said they had to cool them down due to the amount of fat they carried around from eating all day.
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My Honey looking at the Koi Fish and 2 Mallard ducks with broken wings.
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We enjoyed the farm and being togeather.
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The Grandson showing off his muscles.
It was a good day, one Memory Maker for the Rocking chair later on!!!
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