Join me

November 1, 2016 Tuesday
From: Brett
To: Sassy  
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: Sassy day
Sassy,
Still busy…my project at work has lots to keep me busy.  Boss hasn’t been too bad lately but still making some odd decisions.
I didn’t really do anything special for Halloween, what a party pooper I am!
Anyway, I’ve decided to take Friday afternoon off.  Hope you might be able to join me, but if you can’t, I’ll have to settle for something a little less sassy.  
brett
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From: Sassy
To: Brett
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Sassy day
Hiya Brett!  Are you watching the World Series?  Wow… it is something! 
Friday!  Yay!  I should be able to make it.  What time are you thinking?  Do you have time for lunch?  
I made a reservation.  So great to have this to look forward to and get me through the week!  
-S

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Halloween hello

October 31, 2016 Monday

5:59 PM
Randy
Hey there Miss Sassy,  
I am sorry that I haven;t been around much.  
Work has been kicking my butt!  
I hope you’re having a very Happy Halloween!
Sassy
Hiya! 
Hope you’re getting more treats than tricks!
Randy
Thanks 
work has been full of tricks…  
I will get some treats tonight with the Daddy Tax.  
Sassy
Do you get kids at the door?
Randy
Yes  
a lot of new families moved in this year.  
What about you?
Sassy
Nada
Randy
No kids in the building?
Sassy
Not really…. 
A few babies but most folks move by the time the kids grow
Randy
Oh IC.  That’s too bad.  
My dog is going crazy she wants to chase the kids!
Sassy
Your kids dressing up?
Randy
Yes they still do it 

Sassy
Cool!
Randy
I’ve got to run and take them out.  
I’ll try and be on later
Sassy
Have fun! Mwah!
6:08PM
Randy
Thx you too

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NHMan remembers

October 31, 2016 Monday

From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:43 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Hiya T, 
Hope your week got off to a good start.  
Aha… so this is about more than stories?  😉
Hubby says he can scram for awhile Thursday night, so drive around to my garage door and I’ll plan to let you in to park about 5:30 pm?  Let me know if you need the address again. Mwah!
-S
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:49 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
I think I remember the building but send the address anyway. I may be getting senile. You never know. 
We could just sit and tell stories but I don’t think we would last very long before we started groping each other 😜
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 9:53 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
[My street address] – will that get you here? 
No senile!  no no no
Mmmm…. groping.  Do you remember my chest? 
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:17 PM
Subject: Re Hey!

How could I forget😋. 
How are they doing?
No more treatment needed I hope!
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:23 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Awww… You can check them out yourself. 
I remember your talented hands. 
Had my final 5 year check-up last Thursday.  All clear.  
Only have to go once a year from here on.  So relieved! 
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:30 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
That is spectacular news. Best of luck with that. 
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:38 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Thanks!  
Your body holding it together?  
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:43 PM
Subject: Re Hey
I will always be half a cripple. 
I just started taking a yoga class. Good to work on flexibility issues. 
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:50 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Oh dear… sorry to hear that T!  Hope something helps.  My older sister and her beau are big into yoga – taking classes, going on retreats.  They say it does great things for their bad backs, knees, hips etc. 
I’d better get some sleep… hope you have sweet sexy dreams!


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Love you back

October 31, 2016 Monday

7:25AM Sassy
Good morning!  Mwah!
7:28AM Phil
Good morning!

7:29AM Sassy
Good weekend?
7:34AM Phil
It was. My pal called yesterday to let me know one of our closest friends passed away suddenly. He was a great guy and we enjoyed many adventures and always thought we had many more to go – dreamed of taking trips together.   

Reminds you that tomorrow is not promised to any of us. I have not really lost anyone close to me other than my Dad and a very few other family members but it was their time, they had lived full lives. This sucked, this guy should have had many more years.

7:37AM Sassy
Oh no!  So sorry to hear that.  Hugs.  

I know that feeling.  
Always makes me want to live life to the fullest.  
And tell people things now.  
I love you, Philip!

6:17PM Sassy
Amazing supper at All Seasons Table in Malden
 Hot & sour soup

 Crispy honey ribs
Scallion seafood pancake


7:57PM Phil
Love you back.  XXoo
thank you


NHMan reappears

October 30, 2016 Sunday

From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sun Oct 30 2016 6:27 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Still out there Sassy Lassy???  
You still owe me a story about getting caught….
Tom

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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I didn’t know who this was at first… not an email I’d seen before.  I did remember someone asking me about that story, so I scrolled back through my email and almost two years ago, the NHMan mentioned it in an email.  What brings him back now?!  I haven’t seen him since February 2014!  
It’s another one of those times when I am desperate to hear from a guy (Brett) and I end up getting email from some other guy!  
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 6:39 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Hiya Tom!  How the heck are you?  Hope life’s been treating you well.  
I’m still here.  I was thinking of you this week as I passed your exit on the highway.  You know I adore telling you stories and hearing yours! 
-S
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sun Oct 30 2016 6:47 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
You had a story about an AM guy that got caught…
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sun Oct 30 2016 6:50 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
I’m well. I got a boat…spend a lot of time now in Maine cruising in the boat. And you?
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 6:50 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Yes indeed.  I held his hand through the worst of it.  Even saw him once again awhile later, so I know how it worked out.  
-S
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sun Oct 30 2016 6:59 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
It’s raining now here so the little trick or treaters have stopped ringing the bell
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 7:22 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Oooh… Maine is so pretty!  You liking the retired thing or did you jump into some other work?  
I was up at Lake Winnipesaukee this week.  Rainy, cold, and still beautiful. 
I’m rolling along, working, doing some work with the community group.  It’s been an odd year… four close relatives and a close friend died in the past six months, and I was executor for two of them.  You ever done that?  Shocked me how much time it takes to close an estate.  
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sun Oct 30 2016 7:34 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
I still do some work but just when I feel like it.  Would rather be on the boat in the summer 
Never acted as executor
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 7:40 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
That sounds like a great life!  I am looking at retiring in a couple of years… keeps me going.  
Stay away from estate work if you can!  
You still prowling and playing?
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 7:51 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
More prowling than actual playing. 😎

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 8:21 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
that sounds familiar.  
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 8:46 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Still have your roommate?
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 8:50 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Oh yeah… you? 
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 8:56 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Yes and the prodigal son has returned once again from his failed relationship in NC. He can’t drive right now, so I drive him to work. Wife is still in Boston during the week. 
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 9:05 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Wow… you are so good to your kids.  
Are you still popping into Boston to drive the wife too?  Would be fun to see your smiling face and tell stories sometime. 
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 9:10 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
I will be in Boston Thursday afternoon to pick up wifey
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 9:15 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
You around early Thursday evening?

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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From: Sassy
To: NHMan
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 9:40 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
Yes.  That sounds fun!  
Do you know the timing?  The mall still a good spot? 
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From: NHMan
To: Sassy
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 10:04 PM
Subject: Re Hey!
I could be at the mall 5:30 ish.  
Your place would be better 
if your roommate could find something to do. 😜

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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Safe conveyance

October 30, 2016 Sunday

9:51AM Sassy
From Sally Bedell Smith’s Facebook page:

The Queen at 90, out riding yet again, in beautiful autumn weather yesterday along the Thames near Windsor Castle, with Terry Pendry, her head groom. As always, her mount was a Fell pony, described to me by Sir Michael Oswald, her former stud manager at her Sandringham estate, as a “safe conveyance.” Still, her fitness is astounding!


11:36AM Sassy
Happy football day!

So many good moments

October 29, 2016 Satuday
9:43AM Sassy
Happy Saturday and one last look at Lake Winnipesaukee til next time!

10:21AM Sassy
Good morning Philip!
Mwah!

10:48AM Sassy
It’s kielbasa time!  We’re at Kitchen Cravings in Gilford NH!  

11:00AM Sassy
Quiz time!  

I got “100% Upstate NY.”..no duh. Even if I guessed on half of them!

How well do you actually know upsate New York Slang? 
https://www.women.com/talia/quiz-how-well-do-you-actually-know-upstate-new-york-slang?


1:36PM Sassy
Drinking an iced chai latte from Starbucks to keep me awake on the drive home.

3:24PM Phil

[photo of the Thai Pavilion restaurant at National Harbor]

Good place

3:27PM Sassy
Yes!  I was just looking at their paper menu.  It’s still in my luggage
What takes you there today?
3:28PM Phil
Ha! Walked by and thought of you. 
Having beers on the water

3:29PM Sassy
I remember so many good moments

3:34PM Sassy
A silly girl who pulled you into doorways there 
and kissed you that first night after 35 years apart!
3:35PM Phil
Ha ha
[devil emoticon]


Happy Friday from Lake W

October 28, 2016 Friday

6:21AM Sassy

Happy Friday!
7:47AM Phil
Happy Friday kiddo

10:49AM Sassy
Happy Friday from Lake Winnipesaukee!

12:51PM Sassy
I ate pizza for breakfast. Pizza Hut buffet lunch in Laconia NH – $6 a person!

Pizza buffet
Apple pie pizza – the highlight!
Salad bar
Desserts on the salad bar
My salad – I adore non-lettuce options!
Pizza! And pasta!
6:34PM Sassy
Lakefront dinner at the Lyons Den in Gilford NH
View from our table
There are lions everywhere!
Hubby’s French onion soup
Crab cakes appetizer with spicy remolade
Hubby’s steak au poivre with a garlic parmesan twice baked potato
My baked stuffed shrimp with rice pilaf and peas
Pumpkin mousse cake

8:47PM Sassy
Fun way to start Halloween weekend at a performance of War of the Worlds by the Winni Players!

 It’s a beautiful refurbished barn

 The box office
 The black box theater with a stage on the flat and ramped seats 

 Closer view of the stage 
 The seats
The foley table with sound effects gizmos

Tapas time

October 27, 2016 Thursday

10:24PM Sassy

Terrific tapas at Tavern 27 in Laconia NH
Free sweet potato fries and white bean dip
Hubby’s fall sipper and my hibiscus iced tea
Scotch eggs and mustard aoli
Potato leek soup with sourdough toast
Hubby’s French onion soup
Interior – bar in the left corner, piano bar on the right
Assorted olives and sourdough toast
Duck confit egg roll and spring roll
Seared scallops with garlic and potato crostini