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  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited December 2011

    Happy New Year to all my beachie friends!!  I am heading out to the beach in a little while!

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited December 2011

    Buoys from tsunami found on Washington beaches.  Some of the first debris to arrive.

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited December 2011
  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited December 2011

    Beachies, the very best New Year to each and all.

    We leave tomorrow for a 7 to 8 week vagabond adventure. Tomorrow is Naples, FL and then on to the Bahamas for a mini-cruise as a happy, happy to each others. A couple of weeks in and around Ft. Lauderdale/Miami -- then a road trip to New Oreans and on to Baton Rouge. Then back to Ft. Lauderdale. After that we're camping out in Daytona area for a while. We've rented our FL home and are going on a wander.

    Who know what sort of speed internet I'll have and how often.

    Thinking all good thoughts for each and every one of you!!

    xx00xx00xx00xx00xx

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited December 2011

    have a great trip, faith...

    chabba, wow on those buoys from Japan..

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited December 2011

    Happy New Year Beachettes.

  • Raj20
    Raj20 Member Posts: 783
    edited December 2011

    Hi! everyone ! happy to be back on the New Year 2012. Wish you all a very happy and blissful new year.The whole 2011 was very hectic for me with lots of obstacle,confused year, hope this year will bring new things in our lifes.

  • Marple
    Marple Member Posts: 10,154
    edited December 2011

    To 'our angel' who started this thread.

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited December 2011

    I wish BCO had a LOVE button, like FB has a LIKE button.  I'd love that picture Sharon50 & the sentiments with it!  HAPPY NEW YEAR BEACHIES!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited December 2011
    Cool
  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited January 2012
  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482
    edited January 2012

    Raj, good to see you. I join in the hope that 2012 holds health and love and peace for us all.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited January 2012

    Amen to that!

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited January 2012

    LOVE to all the beachies!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    What Sharon and Raj said!!! Cheers!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    Faith, you exhaust me. Seriously. I truly do NOT know how you do it!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012
  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 14
    edited January 2012

    Happy New Year all!

    I realized today that it's been almost a year since I was last here, but it has been a very difficult year.

    The day after my last post here my mother got very sick and I headed home to help care for her. Anyway, it turned out she had stage IV colon cancer and we got her on home hospice care immediately, but she died just six days after she was diagnosed. She had been on dialysis due to diabetes and her quality of life wasn't the best, so it wasn't as hard to let her go as I had feared. She was a wonderful, wonderful, woman and I was so grateful to have been with her at the end. So this past year has been full with selling the family home, working full time, and trying to self-manage my stubborn Lymphedema.

    My highlight was as a beach camping trip to Carpinteria last summer with my brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, and my mom's sister. The beach is such a healing place so that is where I took my vacations, & in May and Oct. I went back to Kauai. As usual, when I returned, my blood work was very, very, good. I try to get my Medical Onc. to write me a prescription for Kauai, but she just laughs. Anyway it's always worth a try! Here are two photo videos I made from my May and October trips to Kauai last year and I hope you enjoy them. Take care!!!

    www.youtube.com/watch...

    http://youtu.be/NN9hx2--XEw

    　　

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,357
    edited January 2012

    mab:  I'm usually a lurker on this thread, but have to jump in & say your Kauai pictures are gorgeous.  Is that Hanalei Bay?  I was there a couple of years ago for a wedding.  LOVE the North Shore.  If you don't mind sharing, where do you stay?  Just saw The Decendants today & I went mainly for the scenery.  Some of your shots are much better than the movie.

    I was raised in No. California with holidays in Carmel (in the 50's - long before Clint).  On my last west coast trip before BC my son & I hiked under the North span of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Vacation before that was a week in Bodega Bay & the one before - 10 days on the in Mendacino coast.  You can see where I try to spend my vacations.  It's been three years since I've been back to HI so hopefully that's up in 2012, especially since I have relatives who live there again.  Alas I live in Texas and the closest "ocean" is Galveston.  It just doesn't compare to the Pacific & I still miss having it in driving range after almost 50 years.

    Thanks so much to everyone for the gorgeous postings.  It makes my day EVERYDAY to sign on and see your ocean & beach pictures.  Happy New Year - or as I saw on one thread - "Happier New Year".

  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 14
    edited January 2012

    Minus Two,
    Yep, it's Hanalei Bay. I hope you'll be able to go back soon.
    Many of those photos were taken from Pali Ke Kua on the North Shore.
    I love the views from there and the great little beach.
    I love this topic, too - great group on here.  

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    It was ME that posted Happier New Year!! Someone PMd me with that and I LOVED it...

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited January 2012

    The cold front came though last night.

    Here's another great sunset.

  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 9,646
    edited January 2012
    Well, as I call it the "downside" of  things..............................I take each holiday as it comes, and do the countdown.........Valentine's Day,............St. Patrick's Day,................Easter.................and yea.............Memorial Da;y, and time to go back to my shore house........................Oh Lord, we are getting an Artic Blast tomorrow.....................thanks Canada...haha.............................and I will have to resort to the "pictures of my pool"..............................and my Vodka, and Red Solo Cup..................boo hoo..................I hate winter.......................think pool, beach, sunshine, ...................oh wait a minute........................traffic, sweating, air conditioning, sunburn, tourists, shoebees...................guess I can handle a little cold weather..........................................love ya ladies.........................stay warm whomever is in the cold.......................................we got a 9 degree wind chill coming in Pa............Yell
  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    Barbara, I'm painting with pastels now and could duplicate your sunset in a heartbeat, but no one would believe it was real!!! It would look like those pictures painted on black velvet....

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited January 2012

    Wow, pink clouds on black velvet...YES!!

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited January 2012

    Beautiful shot Barbara A.

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,262
    edited January 2012

    Love the picture BarbA.  Miss you girlfriend. 

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited January 2012

    {{AmyJo}} Been meaning to call but sooo busy.

    Thanks mum.

  • coonie
    coonie Member Posts: 2,582
    edited January 2012

    Hey all you Beachies!!!

    Hope each and everyone of you had a wondermous Christmas and have a healthy and Happy New Year - 2012!! That just looks so weird..................2012

    Wish I were here and each of you had one too...

    Hugs to everyone who's been sick or under the weather.

    (((((((((((((((((((((Beachies)))))))))))))))))))))))

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited January 2012

    Bless my soul!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Old and new beachies alike.

    Just waving on our way to the mini-cruisette outting tomorrow morning.

    Such a joy to see everyone before hitting the big ocean..... and the sun and the sand.

    Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Welcome aboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Got new set of batteries for the camera.

    Must off-load hundreds of pictures from fall school visits to memory card has space.

    Twill be thinking of each of you as I snap a picture + snap a memory.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

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