Nancy's Notes

Close Up of a Shrimp Boat at Edisto SC

This is my latest lens for the contest and one that is very special to me. I just love Shrimp Boats and enjoy photographing them, painting them and just watching them especially at Edisto Island, South Carolina.

I hope you will drop by and nominate this lens for the Squidoo Summer Sunshine Award Contest for Charity to benefit Friends of the Park.
Shrimp Boats

Bevspaper Wins For Pendleton

Bev created a lens and dedicated it to me and the folks in Pendleton for Friends of the Park. It is the story of the 1961 Baseball Season when Roger Maris broke the Babe’s Home Run Record.

61 in 61 won the Summer Sunshine Award Contest today! Yippee! Friends of the Park receives $99 and Bev receives $99 plus 100% of her royalties are set for Friends of the Park.

Bev stepped up to the plate for Pendleton and we sure appreciate it!

Thank you, Bev!

I just love the name of Mimi’s new T-shirt line called Said On. She is so clever and is adding new sayings almost daily to her Said On Collection. She has all styles of shirts and she says that the sayings are things she has heard or seen on TV or hears in passing. If Mimi likes what she hears, it becomes a Said On T-shirt.

Mimi is also getting some pretty clever sayings from her readers, as well. Please stop by and visit this Said On lens. It is participating in the Summer Sunshine Award for Charity on behalf of Friends of the Park so your nomination would be appreciated, too!
NOTE: There is a new form that you have to use now instead of the email.

Said On by GrowWear is participating in the Summer Sunshine Award Contest and we would appreciate your nomination. Just submit this form when you have completed it:
Sunshine Award Nomination Form

Friends of the Park thanks you!

A lot of heart by SaidOn
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Ohme and Joan4's Dad

Joan4 is my sister and so when she talks about Father’s Day, I automatically think of our Dad. Our Dad passed away over 20 years ago but I still think of him often. He was a tall, big man but spoke very softly and when he spoke, we always listened. I remember that we almost always gave him Peanut Brittle for Christmas but I really can’t remember what we gave him for Father’s Day. I do have a book that I made for him. I guess I was in about the 3rd or 4th grade and I had asked our neighbor Mr. Bob if he would cut me two pieces of wood. I sanded them in his shop and he showed me how to bore the holes which I tied together with old shoestrings. It sure doesn’t look like it now but it was a lot of work, I remember and Dad loved this book.

My Father's Day Gift to my Dad

Inside the book, there are only 3 yellowed pages. One is a poem, one is a letter and one is a Thank You:

Inside My Book For Dad

Joan has created a lens with some Unique and Sentimental Father’s Day Presents and I hope you will drop by this lens and nominate it for the Summer Sunshine Award Contest for Charity. You see, my sweet sister created this lens to benefit my favorite charity, Friends of the Park.

Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there!

Forget Ice Cream Cones and Enjoy Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches Instead

What is better than a cone of cream? Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches, of course!

I love Cookies and I love Ice Cream so when I read Clouda9’s Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches Recipes, my mouth began to water. Oatmeal Raisin, Chewy Chocolate Chip, and Homemade Molasses Cookies are combined with Ice Cream for some delicious sounding Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches. They not only sound good but the pictures makes you want to lick your computer screen.

The only thing missing from this lens is the statement that when cookies are combined with ice cream, all the calories disappear. Now, wouldn’t that be nice! I think I will convince myself that this statement is true so I can thoroughly enjoy one of these mouth watering Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches.

Clouda9 added something very special to this summer treat lens when she designated her Royalties to be paid to Friends of the Park and entered this lens in Squidoo’s Summer Sunshine Award Contest for Charities. Friends of the Park would sure appreciate your visit and nomination.

To nominate, just send an email to sunshine@squidoo.com with this message:
I nominate http://www.squidoo.com/ice-cream-cookie-sandwiches-recipe

Glad you could drop by and read this SCOOP!

Tate Family Reunion 2010 - Group Photo in Pendleton SC by Ammons Portrait Studio

Well, this is embarrassing to promote a lens about me and my family and my hometown but hey, I don’t mind if you don’t so here goes:

Pendleton Is OhMe’s Town written by Kate Loving Shenk about our weekend together at the Tate Family Reunion. We all just loved having Kate join us for this special family weekend held in Pendleton SC. Kate did all the right things.

Never once did I hear her say “why don’t you do it this way” or “back home we always did it like this” or “your town needs to do this or that”. No, instead Kate offered glowing comments and gave us the distinct impression that she was enjoying every minute and I know it was sincere. Gee, how many people do you know could enjoy going to a family reunion filled with lots of people she had never seen or heard of before. Granted, our family is lovable!

Shortly after we met for the first time in person and were sitting on our beautiful Village Green, I asked Kate what she thought of Pendleton. She said “It’s been kissed by faeries”! Now, I have to tell you that was the perfect thing to say to someone who loves her town like I do. She went on to say that everything was greener and sweeter. Gosh, I do love Kate!

She may not be a southerner but Kate sure has the Southern Charm down pat as you will notice on this lens.

Thank you, Kate for creating this for the Summer Sunshine Award Contest for Charity on behalf of Friends of the Park! I hope everyone will take the time to read this yankee’s view of the south right here on Pendleton Is Ohme’s Town
Your nomination would be greatly appreciated, too. Just send an email to: sunshine@squidoo.com
with this message:
I nominate http://www.squidoo.com/ohmes-pendleton

Bless Yo Heart!

Enjoy The Simple Things!

Jeanie Sims Hunt grew up in Pendleton SC, my hometown. She is younger than I am so we really didn’t remember that much about each other as kids, but we actually lived in the same house in Pendleton at different times.

We reconnected on FaceBook and Jeanie shared some of her writings with me. I quickly found out how talented she is and had a feeling that she would enjoy writing on Squidoo. It didn’t take much convincing to get her to sign up and start sharing her talent.

If you enjoy reading inspirational, uplifting poems and prose, you will enjoy reading Jeanie’s most recent lens Lasting Happiness. Jeanie asks the reader to search within themselves for the answer to the question “What makes you happy?”. This wise lensmaster also provides Steps Toward Happiness which are really worth the read. She recommends that we all try to keep life simple and enjoy each and every day!

Jeanie has entered this beautiful lens in the Summer Sunshine Award Contest to benefit Friends of the Park. Jeanie is giving back to her hometown by doing this. You see, Friends of the Park is using any funds raised this year for our “Step Up To The Plate” fundraising campaign for the ball fields at Veterans Park. Thank you, Jeanie!

We hope you will take the time to visit Lasting Happiness and that you will also nominate it by sending an email to:
sunshine@squidoo.com
Just copy and paste this sentence in your email message with the subject being Nomination:
I nominate http://www.squidoo.com/lasting-happiness

Wishing you a life filled with lasting happiness!

A New Zealand farm On the Coromandel Peninsula

Kevin really has a way with words and when I read his Squidoo lenses, I feel like I am talking to him face to face. He writes straight from the heart sharing his struggles of living with deafness, loosing his farm in South Africa, his present home of West Cork in Ireland, his beloved family and more. His writings are filled with emotion.

While reading, you find yourself grinning from ear to ear or laughing out loud at his great sense of humor. While reading, your eyes begin to fill with tears as he shares his innermost thoughts. One can feel his love of nature as he describes the beauty of the places he has lived or visited. The love he has for his family just oozes off the pages. Yes, Spook writes from the heart and with heart!

His latest lens Coromandel Peninsula North Island New Zealand is no exception. He really exposes himself in this one.
That’s right, Ladies! Spook goes topless.

You will feel his excitement as he tells of his visit with kinfolk in the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula complete with great photos. This lens has been nominated for the Squidoo Summer Sunshine Award Contest for Charity and I hope you will take the time to send in your nomination.

To nominate: Just email Sunshine@squidoo.com including the following sentence as your message: I nominate http://www.squidoo.com/coromandel
That’s all you have to do. We would greatly appreciate it. You see, Spook has chosen my favorite charity, Friends of the Park, as the recipient of his royalties for this lens and the contest charity winnings! Please help this lens win so Pendleton’s children will win, too!

Thank you.