looking towards the future, we were begging for the past, well we knew we had the good things but they never seemed to last, oh please just last

this past friday trisha picked me up with dane and morgan and we headed to oneonta to visit carey, kristen and owen. we used our magellen gps to lead us there easily. i have nicknamed the woman's voice on the gps "madge", short for magellen. at some point in the trip madge was talking to us quite a bit, telling us to prepare for a left turn, blah blah blah. morgan was talking to trisha at the same time. so trisha replied - "morgan, honey, i am trying to listen to madge" morgan replied with "who the hell is madge???"

dane and owen showed us their dance moves to michael jackson's "thriller"













saturday we all packed in the family truckster and headed to cooperstown. we did the baseball hall of fame. half way through we wanted to go to the third floor but there was a huge line of people waiting to go there too. we knew we just wanted to walk around up there and did not want to wait to see whatever they were. but we were afraid to venture up there past everyone and make people mad. it turns out hank aaron was there and they were all waiting to see him.

later that day we went downtown oneonta for their annual OH fest. it is a festival on main street put on by the colleges. they closed down the road and had face painting, vendors, games and music.

into saturday evening we had some adult time. carey made my favorite drink that kristen's parent's introduced me to at his college grad party several years ago. they are called pain killers - rum, orange and pineapple juice and cream of coconut. they pick you up from wherever you are and place you on a sandy warm beach. these are going to be the drink of the summer!
sunday we headed to the park for a bit before we drove home. the kids had some run around time before we got in the car. cousins young and old........

update from a cold april day

it's a snowy day in april. yes, i said that correctly. life has been pretty normal here at the bristol household. we are just gearing up for summer to be here, and soon.



this past week i emailed some of my photos and poems of the river to a website called thousandislandslife.com. if you have never been there you should check it out. it is a website "magazine" of many different publications from many different river people. i am keeping my fingers crossed that some of my stuff shows up there someday. i also cannot wait to continue with my photography this summer. hopefully i can work on improving it.



and for those of you who get the thousand islands sun, look for a tribute to grandpa in the easter week edition. it will be a year on april 12th, which is hard to believe.

and my love goes out to aunt carolyn and family....

i will be joining mom for easter sunday, hopefully i will see some of you soon.

awakening waters from winter's freeze

clear night river sky

the pieces of our life
are burning bright in
a clear night river sky

and as fast as a bright
summer shooting star
sizzling across the
hot august river sky
you have gone

a million tiny memories
of you and me
are spread along
the changing currents

if i knew now
how fast our time
would fade against
the black night
and burn into the water

if i knew now
if i knew now

i would have taken
every waking moment
and thrown it back
into the starry sky

so when i look up
into the clear night
river sky
you and i would be
easy to find

sometimes i can still see
little pieces of our life
burning bright in
a clear night river sky

look for me
look for me

my everyday....

i know i have not posted much in a long time. mainly it is because billy and i have just been hanging out and dealing with the winter. it would not be very exciting to document shoveling snow, which is how many of our, or should i say billy's, days have been spent. my camera has been safely sitting in it's travel bag for the majority of the winter. but recently the weather has turned very spring like, which hopefully means winter is over! i heard the sounds of birds today that i have not heard in many months as i sat on my front porch drinking coffee with a t shirt on.

so, we are doing very well. we are still here! our weekends have consisted of watching the syracuse basketball games and trips to sams club. very "everyday" stuff. i washed my car yesterday, very exciting! maybe i should post a picture of that?! anyways, hopefully in the near future we will both make the drive to the river, with camera in tow. and perhaps with the top of the porsche down? wishfull thinking! see you soon!

it's ok

it's coming on a year
since you have been gone
and although i miss you
it's ok, it's ok

time is a blessing
to pass so gently
i can feel the healing
with each tear that
doesn't flow
and it's ok, it's ok

with my little dreams
i am sure i still see you
every once in a while
if that is all we have now
it's ok, it's ok

it is coming on a year
since losing you
but we all know
that all is not lost
we are just tucked away
in a different place
for you and i to find
each other

and we are ok,
we are ok

it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, and i'm feeling good

so it is mid winter. we have both been sick sick sick. hopefully it is all behind us. i have lysoled and clorox wiped every touchable surface in our home. and i have the saving grace of antibiotics running through my veins. i have not been this ill this frequently in my whole life?!

last weekend we decided that since we still have dibs on the opera house september 12th that we are going to stick with the plan and get married this year. i don't think i enjoyed the idea of putting it off AGAIN. all of my plans and ideas are already in my brain. it is just all about executing them. so 7 months to go. time to lose some weight and grow out my hair! woo-hoo! who wants to go dress shopping? i do! i do!