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My cousins left at 6:15 this morning. We had a wonderful weekend visiting with my aunts and cousins. Saturday we went to cousin Jan's. Her family was down from NY state. They recently bought my aunt's house and they are busy doing renovations and landscaping. Nate has planted some beautiful flowers around the yard and trimmed up some of the bushes. The carpets have been removed to show the beautiful hardwood floors.
Aunt Jean came over and more cousins came to visit at Jan's house. I left to take Danny Boy to my brother, Don's and stopped in to see my sister-in-law, Sylvia. She had just come home from the hospital from knee replacement surgery. I took Danny to Don's and changed for dinner. I returned to Aunt Jean's house so I could take her to Sam's Restaurant. Cousin Scott was singing at Sam's which is mostly an Italian. In came 22 of us. I thought of it as the Irish Invasion as it was the Irish side of my family. We had a nice dinner while we enjoyed Scott's singing. Aunt Jean got up and sang "Always" and the people wanted and encore so she sand "Because of You." She got a standing ovation for both. Another man in the audience got up and sang and then did a Rodney Dangerfield impersonation. He was good and had everyone laughing. The band played a little Philadelphia Mummer's string band music and Don's friend, Evelyn got up doing the mummer's strut alone so I joined her strutting around the dance floor. I had not intended to stay long but our group stayed until closing when everyone stood up and sang two rounds of "God Bless America" Dave, Gloria, and family stayed at Jan's house. Jan had 14 people staying overnight there. Aunt Jean had invited me to stay with her but I had Danny Boy and her condo doesn't allow dogs. I stayed at my brother, Don's.
I got up early and headed for home so I could go to my church. Our new pastor was starting on Sunday. I had Don go to Jan's as we were invited to my other cousin, Rosemary's Sunday afternoon. I drove to Rosemary's from here and Don led Dave and Gloria from PA/
Rosemary lives in a country town in PA. She had a lovely spread of food with fresh garden vegetables grown by her husband - beets, yellow zucchini and watermelon. she also had strawberries, raspberries and black berries. Norman grilled the yellow zucchini on the grill and Rosemary made a yellow squash casserole. Yellow zucchini is yellow like the squash but has a fat green stem like a Puccini. When cut open, it also looks like a zucchini. They also served bbq chicken, burgers and hot dogs. Rosemary made homemade potato salad and baked beans. Other relatives brought dishes. I brought a potato salad. It was cousin Michael's birthday but his 3 year old daughter wanted it to be her birthday so she told her grandmother, Rosemary what kind of cake she wanted. Rosemary is my uncle Cook's daughter. Aunt Peg was there along with cousin's, Cookie, Lou, Bill and family, and Carmsie. Cookie's wife was there also with her mother. Some of Rosemary's neighbors were there, too. Dave and Gloria got to meet many of his cousins that he did not know as they always lived far away. They now live in GA.
When we got back here, we rested for a bit and then went down to the marina. Meaghan wanted to take some pictures of the boats and canal. We stood on the dock for a while watching the boats and then came back here. We had some ham sandwiches and then turned in for the night.
We all had a wonderful time connecting with our aunts and cousins. They are all such wonderful people.
I will download my photo's when I get my hard drive freed up.
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Posted by tedkarol at July 4, 2011 9:39 AM