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Moodus, Connecticut

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We arrived in Moodus last Sunday and enjoyed our first week here. We have done a little bit of sightseeing but seemed like I couldn't get my act together and we went to the grocery store four days in a row. Part of that reason I will share with you in the "Keeping it real" segment.  I saw a fire tower on our way to Moodus. This is our site for two weeks. The flowers here and the views are amazing. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."  Ferris Bueller's Day Off "They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;  You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy." Psalm 65:8 (NASB) Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians.  The names of three of the inhabiting tribes are known. The Wangunks , the Mohegans and the Nehantics  were their names.  The name was derived from the Native American name for t

The Garden State

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We arrived in Cape May, New Jersey on Mother's Day. We set up for the week and then we headed downtown to celebrated Mother's Day with dinner. We went to The Mad Batter Restaurant, and it was pretty good. There were warnings of rain, but that didn't happen, I enjoyed the blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Downtown is so cute it is hard for me to put it into words. We walked around after dinner, and it was so much fun and so cute. I don't know how I imagined New Jersey, but it is totally beautiful. Our site for the week. It was a nice Mother's Day! Lots of cute shops, homes and rentals in this area. This is one of the rentals and it was being worked on. Love this house! Our Lady Star of the Sea circa 1878. Inside the church. Beautiful  stain glass windows. The other side. The Confessionals.  "Keeping it real" as we were walking by the church a woman (who most likely had a little bit too much wine, but hey, it was Mother's Day) asked hubby where some plac