Who feels like a Threadkiller....Take 3!

[pixie dust 112]

Misty watered colored memories!

That's cause you are from Barbra's neighborhood!

 

[Hollyann]

Hi Threadkillers!

Colleen - nice pics....you have the eye! (o)

DU - sorry to hear about Coney Island...I've never been there, but your memories (misty water colored memories) sound lovely and I'm happy you have them. So...are you Irish? Or Italian? Or both?

PD - I'm checking out Mohonk on the other web page open. I am a menu shopper! I LOVE to read menus for fine restaurants and then see what I can re-create (if I can find a recipe).

I'm also checking out stuff to do for mine & Tom's cruise. I think we're going to do the couples spa treatment and we're eating at Palo's on the night of our 25th anniversary.

We're not sure what to do about our excursions. Everything that we want to do involves seafood...dolphin & stingrays and feeding them, snorkeling, etc. With my allergies - I just can't...and I SO don't want to spend time in another country's hospital - I'm only taking 3 epipens with me. Neither one of us are huge beach people or shoppers. We might just stay on-board and consider the ship ours for the day....we'll see.

Anyway, that and reading is my night...so far! Although we did go out for ice cream earlier!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[DISUNC]

That's cause you are from Barbra's neighborhood!

Or is she from Disunc's Neighborhood???

Tawk amungst yourselves....I'll be right back!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Aisling was very proud to show me Coney Island during tour of NY

When I visited her last I got a driving tour of every landmark in the city

seriously.

 

[DISUNC]

So...are you Irish? Or Italian? Or both?

Irish Catholic from moms side.
Scotch/English Protestant on Dads Side.

Back in the day that was a MIXED Marriage!

This was before MY time! Get a load of those clothes

 

[DISUNC]

Aisling was very proud to show me Coney Island during tour of NY

When I visited her last I got a driving tour of every landmark in the city

seriously.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

That looks like a really fun ride!

About as dangerous as some of the others they had at the time, but fun

 

[DISUNC]

That looks like a really fun ride!

About as dangerous as some of the others they had at the time, but fun

Thats what made it MORE Fun! No whoosie rides for us Brooklynites!

 

[Hollyann]

Irish Catholic from moms side.
Scotch/English Protestant on Dads Side.

Back in the day that was a MIXED Marriage!

Sounds like my parents! Are you another brother - I have LOTS of brothers! My mother was Irish Catholic and my father was Swiss/French Protestant. My mother DID consider it a mixed marriage - until he converted.

It's funny, my mom & dad were blind dates and they married soon afterwards and were a very happy couple. Then my mother died when I was in my teens and he was devestated.

Soon after, my dad had this blind date in Michigan (he was going to a friends b-day party) and met this woman, fell in L-O-V-E after THAT date and married her, too! 27 years later, they're like newlyweds...holding hands, googlie eyes the works!

They, too had a mixed marriage - until she converted!

No more blind dates for him!

 

[Hollyann]

Thats what made it MORE Fun! No whoosie rides for us Brooklynites!

Yeah.....no.

The girls in the south aren't happy with rides unless we have a clear exit strategy and a life preserver!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[DISUNC]

No more blind dates for him!

My Father never converted. They were married by a Priest, BUT could not get married in Church. They had to get married in the Rectory and Dad had to sign a paper declaring that all the children will be baptised & raised Catholic.

Yeah.....no.

The girls in the south aren't happy with rides unless we have a clear exit strategy and a life preserver!

Scaddy Cats!

 

[Hollyann]

I am a safety girl!

(I am also Kitchen Gadget Girl....but that's my secret identity!)​

 

[pixie dust 112]

My Father never converted. They were married by a Priest, BUT could not get married in Church. They had to get married in the Rectory and Dad had to sign a paper declaring that all the children will be baptised & raised Catholic.




Scaddy Cats!

My grandparents were a mixed marriage, nana was catholic and grandpa was protestant...got married in the rectory and had to sign the paper about raising kids catholic; my mom is catholic and my dad was protestant, they let them get married in the church, but not on the altar. Had to sign the catholic kids pledge. I was catholic and Dh protestant when we married and they let us get married on the alter! It was a major breakthrough! My grandparents, parents and DH and I all got married in the same parish. DH and I signed something, but I don't remember it being as strict as the "pledge". Something about doing our best to raise them catholic. Well we did our best...DDs were all baptized Catholic, but after a few years we stopped going to Mass and started to go to a protestant church.

 

[PrincessaC]

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[DISUNC]

back to Grindstone tonight!

 

[Cruisin]

Hello everyone

Can i join you? I'm a over the pond threadkiller!

Hello there. I am also from a Chatham, but across the ocean from you in Canada

DD(14) and I went to the Vanderbilt mansion today for a picnic.

I've been to a Vanderbilt mansion too but it was in South Carolina (maybe North Carolina??) I think Or am I remembering the wrong family name?

Enjoyed the photos.

I'm a perfectionist, but I don't think so......

I really don't think so

I was playing with Photoshop today...

Lovely effect, Colleen.

GOODBYE CONEY ISLAND!


closing day of SteepleChase (in '65...shhhh).

So sorry about the loss of your childhood landmark DU.

But ...... somehow I'm thinking the math does not add up here




Hi all. I have returned once again to the home of the threadkillers.

It was a long trip back last night and I drove most of it because I was with 2 guys who can't keep their eyes open after it gets dark outside

To get to Montreal it was an 8 1/4 hour drive without stops. We did it in two days on the way there because we left kinda late and came back all in one trip.

Got home last night about 1am.

Got our cruise documents this morning