"Harvest of Friends" Meet

Those pics are great Mariliyn....I can imagine that Mankato trip would be a blast! Judging by that picture of Dean with all the Divas, he looks like a really tall guy! How tall is he, do you think? He looks like he's at least 6'3!

Nice photos!!

lucky girl

I wish I could be you for a little while! Great pics, girl!

Vanesa.

Last Saturday, Amy and I had the lovely opportunity (finally!!) to get together again! It's been an incredibly busy week, so I hadn't had the chance to post about it here yet. We met at Wendy's for lunch, then drove to an antique mall where we spent HOURS talking and laughing, and looking at wonderful (and sometimes creepy!) antiques. It was such a delightful afternoon! And I had no idea how much I needed that. Amy is such a joy to know! And I loved every minute of the day. I hated to see it end! We talked about quite a few of you here on the board (in a good way, of course!), so many of you were "with us" during our day! SO....here is the lovely Amy, with the portrait of Jane Seymour...I knew it belonged with Amy :



And here we both are at the antique store (where they probably think we were a couple of escapees from a looney bin we really did laugh a LOT):



And then. . . Amy found. . . a pan. And for some reason she thought I should pose with it:



It's getting late, so I need to head to bed - but tomorrow I'm going to post a poll on the board, where we'll vote on which of the items we saw was creepier. We thought it would be a fun way to include the board in our trip to the antique store.

Nice pictures, Lisa. I love antiques store. Can't wait to see the creepier items.

I can't wait to see the creepy things too! You should've bought the pan!!

Buttercup wrote:

Nice pictures, Lisa. I love antiques store. Can't wait to see the creepier items.

Thank you, Melissa!

alexczarn wrote:

You should've bought the pan!!

I doubt that Rob will agree.

Great pics!

Lisa wrote:

I doubt that Rob will agree.

No, you did the right thing leaving it in the store.

Thank you.

Great pictures, Lisa and Amy!

Very nice pictures.

So glad the two of you were able to get together again......Gin and I are over due for another meeting.....but, as you said, life gets busy.......

Thank you everyone! Lisa & I are SO blessed to live close enough to one another that we can actually do this from time to time! Rhonda & Gin, I hope you two can meet up again soon! It's still my dream that we can one day have a meeting place and all meet up.

Lisa was SO precious to bestow on me my favorite sketch of hers EVER. (And that's a lot of sketches! ). I was in absolute shock when I started to pull it out of the gift bag and only got a glimpe of the hair (I knew right away what it was), and exclaimed, "No you didn't! You did not!!" I burst into tears and could have started hyperventilating! WHAT a special moment and WHAT a special gift to have. "Elise Mckenna" now graces a wall in my foyer/living room.

This time was even more fun than that last, I'd say (and I didn't think that was possible!) but the 'first meeting jitters' were over and now we're like old friends shooting the breeze (well, we ARE old friends....but not that old. ). Lisa has such a great sense of humor and it's such a delight that we both 'get' each other and even share several common interests. Pretty neat! Can't wait until the next time, Lisa!

Oh, and yes, Lisa's not lying about the laughing bit....the antique storekeepers must have thought we'd escaped the looney bin! Who else stays in an antique store for 3 hours whoopin' and hollerin'?! My jaws literally ached when we finally left!


Thanks for posting the pictures! Looking forward to the poll!

And here's a close-up of just how amazing that Jane Seymour picture actually is! (The one with me posing with it doesn't do it nearly enough justice! ). Even the framing/matting are exquisite! I couldn't be more thrilled!

That one still blows me away too!


Rhonda....one of these days I want us to go to Mansfield. I went with Clay and the boys but they had no idea what they were looking at. Three goof balls putting on bonnets in the gift shop was a little much. SO, I need a true LH heart to go with me when I do go again. Maybe we can find a way soon....

Sounds good to me....my driveway is 30 miles from Laura's driveway.....

Gin wrote:

I went with Clay and the boys but they had no idea what they were looking at. Three goof balls putting on bonnets in the gift shop was a little much.

What a riot!


(Gin, now THAT would be a fun place for us all to meet up. I know we always talk about it....sure would be cool if we could make it happen one day. ).


Rhonda, you are such a lucky girl!! *jealous*!!!

Wow, you girls are both soooo pretty!

Sav....Lisa, I love the pic of you and the pan. I can see that you were thinking of Rob as this was taken, lol.

Amy, when Lorrie and I met in WI years ago we went to an antiques mall and had a blast there looking at all of the treasures and laughing the whole time. I found Mr. Edward's jug and she had to take a pic of me with it.

Amy wrote:

Rhonda, you are such a lucky girl!! *jealous*!!!

When I was making plans to go down to Missouri to visit my Grandma, I had fully intended on meeting Rhonda there! My schedule didn't let me go, though - and it ended up working out for the best, since that's when Mom's aortic rupture occurred. I can't even imagine if it had happened while we were traveling!

LIWnut wrote:

Wow, you girls are both soooo pretty!

Marilyn, thank you!!

Marilyn wrote:

Sav....Lisa, I love the pic of you and the pan. I can see that you were thinking of Rob as this was taken, lol.

How did you know that??

Marilyn wrote:

Amy, when Lorrie and I met in WI years ago we went to an antiques mall and had a blast there looking at all of the treasures and laughing the whole time. I found Mr. Edward's jug and she had to take a pic of me with it.

Have you posted that one yet? It sounds adorable!

LIWnut wrote:

Wow, you girls are both soooo pretty!

Aw, thank you, Marilyn!

LIWnut wrote:

Amy, when Lorrie and I met in WI years ago we went to an antiques mall and had a blast there looking at all of the treasures and laughing the whole time. I found Mr. Edward's jug and she had to take a pic of me with it.

Ah, so you know!! I want to see that picture! I don't remember ever seeing it before!

Lisa wrote:

When I was making plans to go down to Missouri to visit my Grandma, I had fully intended on meeting Rhonda there! My schedule didn't let me go, though - and it ended up working out for the best, since that's when Mom's aortic rupture occurred. I can't even imagine if it had happened while we were traveling!

Someone was definitely looking out for you all. If you ever attempt to make the trip again, I'd be more than willing to be your passenger!

I will post it tomorrow when I have the pc on. Posting now from the iPad.

Maybe we should make plans to go to Laura's in the next year or so. If we could get a wagon train going it might be fun! It would need to be in the summer I think, but oh I would love to see FALL again.

I love the photo with the pan!