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We would like to welcome you to Cathy and Chuck's blog. We try to make at least twice monthly entries but sometimes get lax and neglect our blog. BUT we try to make up for it with hopefully interesting and informative articles. Happy Reading

About Us

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I'm Cathy, a 67 year old retired Navy wife. Spent 24 years as a Navy wife until my husband retired after 27 years of service. We traveled all over from Washington D.C., to Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Maartin, Martinique, Japan and Korea. We re-located to this beautiful state of TN from Central FL. We live in the mountains on 5 acres with our 10 cats (5 indoor). I'm Chuck, the Other Half of the equation. I'm a 68 y/o sailor at heart. While in the Navy I was a Cryptologic Tech (Intel type). My most memorable tours of duty were in Submarines (Scorpion, Skipjack, Triton & Ray), as Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Deputy Director National Security Agency (RADM C.F. Clark), and my last tour as Operations Chief at NSGA Homestead, Fl during Hurricane Andrew. It was a good time to retire. We have been looking for this home since 1965 and thank the good Lord that we're finally here.

Sunday, October 30, 2016

More Pics

Finally got this blog to where it would take photos from the iphone but had to load them onto the HP photo program first.  Anyway......

These are pictures taken when we were in Florida attending our Grandson's birthday party.  Kai was 2 years old.


Steven has a 15 foot above ground pool in his backyard and managed to squeeze this inflatable enclosed jump and water slide between the pool and fence.  It's funny because there were 7 kids at the party but there were 27 adults.  They all had a good time.


My brother Bob and I hadn't seen each other in about 6 years so we cracked a bottle of Maker's Mark Bourbon to celebrate.  Don't plan on letting that much time pass before we get together again.




Left to right, Steven, Kai, Cathy, Me and my brother Bob.  Bob and his family had just moved to Florida the previous year and he came up for a short visit.  Steven's wife, Lisa was taking the pics.


Jynna Mae and Kaylee, our oldest Grand daughters were at the bday party as well.


Before we left Brooksville, we stopped by "The Main Street Eatery" restaurant where Kaylee works.  It's right across the street from the County courthouse and gets a lot of business from the locals.

Saturday, October 29, 2016

WOW - WHAT A HIATUS

I knew I'd been missing in action as far as this blog was concerned but some people may be thinking I'm dead and gone.  But those in the know, know a lot has been happening in our household these past few months.  Our Summer has been a whirl wind.  Cathy has undergone 2 back surgeries and recovered quite well - our daughter and her two chillins moved in with us until she can get her feet on the ground.  It's been quite a transition for us old folks having two kids around but it's for the best.

We enjoy outings on the lake and either stop at one of Dale Hollow Lake marinas or eat lunch on the boat. We didn't get to spend as much time on the water as we would have like to but we were out more than last year.

Cathy was in the canning mood this year and we put up bunches of stuff.  She made pickles, both dill and sweet, corn, tomatoes and tomato products such as salsa, spaghetti sauce, whole tomatoes etc., 
green beans, peaches, and pickled and plain beets.  All this and frozen vegetables and fruits as well.


Took a short trip to Florida for our Grandson's birthday - he's 2 now.  We really had a good time and the trip was a welcome break.






Lisa, our daughter-in-law made Kai's cake.  It's a Power Ranger theme


Steven, Jynna Mae, Cathy and Kaylee.  I've got more photos but they're on my Adobe Photo Shop and I can't get them to upload yet.  Seems Photo Shop isn't available for this website.  I'll keep working on it and post them later.  Enjoy...




Back Porch View

Back Porch View
Eastern view off our back porch