The old red barn

Vermont is beautiful. We had 22 people here today all relatives, 2 nieces I've never met and they are my age! crazy. They are wonderful. the kids went crazy jumping, running and playing all the outside games then jumping into the ice cold pond. the pond

Everyone took very long to say goodbye because it was a special day.
A good friend died this week (very sad) and this quote is for her and my extended family.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.
John Irving