Memories are so Precious to Me!
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Lake Huron
Lexington, Michigan
My Gram's Lake Home
... and lots of red roses
blue waters and
LOVE |
Memories
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| My Sweet Gram |
My favorite memories are from my childhood and going to Gram's house
the beautiful blue sky and water
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my dad and sisters and cousins
swinging together by the lake |
The Lake Birch Trees
we lived in Michagan
our first house was small but filled with relatives and fun times!
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Grandma Gignac far left,
maureen, Sandy Me and Janet and my Mom
I am the scowling little girl
my sister Maureen's First communion Celebration (1962) |
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There's my mom and dad and my Gram Shaughnessy's
walking down to the lake from her house.
Don't you just love that blue dress my Mom is wearing? |
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| My Beautiful Mother, Margaret |
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| My cousin Barb and me at Grams |
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Playing whiffle ball
I have the beautiful bowl cut |
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| a day at the Family beach |
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| Me and Barbie my cousin and friend |
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| Sister and cousin |
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| back when they made metal sand pails |
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Back when everyone bathed the baby in the kitchen sink!
I think that is me.
I love my Bubble Baths to this day! |
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| Gram and some cousins in the fall doing leaf clean up! |
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| our tire swing |
The highlight of my memories is my grandparents lake home on Lake Huron
...I mean right on Lake Huron
they had a little sandy and stony beach front that the aunt, uncles, cousins
would all visit in the summer and fall and enjoy together.
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| dad, walking on the beach |
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| Back of house |
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Gram tending her flowers
See her green rain barrel?
We kids would get a dousing of rainwater to get the sand off of us after a day on the beach.
I hated the cold rain water shower in my birthday suit no less! |
Lots of good memories even though I was very young
I can remember so much.
It is amazing!
Grandpa died right before I was born so I never knew him .
Gram kept the lake house for awhile then sold it.
I never understood why they didn't keep it in the family
why didn't the relatives all pitch in and buy it together?
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Mom in the blue dress and aunt and cousins and sisters
I'm not in this photo |
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Great Aunt Meme
emptying the sand out of her shoes/ or are they boots? |
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| Grandpa and lots of the cousins |
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| My Sister |
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| my dad sitting on the stony beach |
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| aunts...birch trees ...my favorite trees |
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Oh Those Beautiful Roses
Janet and JoanE |
The old house full of great memories,
and the lake
so blue and mysterious
spectacular to just look at.
ships far off on the horizon,
large boulders sticking out of the beach and into the water.
The sounds of laughter,
the good times the smells
(peaches, fresh ground coffee...just the smell of the old house!)
The beauty of the place is overwhelming to me. ..... and I miss it
