Our camping group, Seaport Sams, just came back from Oak Embers...

Click the title link to view a Picasa photo album from our Oak Embers camping jaunt we just returned from.

Alice's mom passed today, September 24th 07....

Sept 25th update: Click on title for transportation to the Newington Memorial Funeral Home website for the posted obituary.


Alice’s mother (Nellie Lenart) passed away peacefully this morning at Haven Health Care in Jewett City. Alice was there with her brother Joey and our daughter Joanna. Arrangements are pending but she’ll be interred in her home town of Newington CT….Alice is going there now (Newington Memorial Funeral Home) with her brother to make arrangements. The obituary will be published in The Hartford Courant.


Update 26 Sept 07:

Nellie T. (Paliki) Lenart

LENART, Nellie T. (Paliki) Nellie T. (Paliki) Lenart, 93, of Newington, died on Monday (September 24, 2007). She was the beloved wife of the late Charles M. Lenart. Born in Ludlow, MA, daughter of the late Peter and Theresa (Hadalska) Paliki, she lived in Newington for the last 63 years and was a member of St. Mary's Church. She was employed by Keeney Mfg. Co. in Newington for many years. Nellie is survived by her sons, Carl Lenart and his wife Christine of South Windsor, Peter Lenart of Newington, and Joseph Lenart and his wife Trudy of Atlanta, GA; and her daughter, Alice Payette and her husband Robert of Preston; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her funeral service will be held on Thursday, 9 a.m. at Newington Memorial Funeral Home, 20 Bonair Ave., Newington, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Church, Newington. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, New Britain. Family and friends are invited to call on Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at Newington Memorial. Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl., Memphis, TN 38105. To share a memory with the family please visit www.newingtonmemorial .com.
Published in the Hartford Courant on 9/25/2007.

Deer Haven Lobster Cookout Sept 2007

The highlighted link will bring you to a Picasa Web Album of our Deer Haven Campout with the Seaport Sams Camping Club.

we're camping this weekend

call the cell or email if you need us!!bob and ALICE

Going South in March :)

This note was sent to our friends in the Seaport Sams Camping Club

Alice and myself have decided to attend the Good Sam Rally in Perry Ga, March 12th thru March 17th, 2008. We’ve sent in our reservation, and now have our first 2008 campout booked which should help us get through the winter. I’ve blind-cc’ed this note to all our Club members who have E-mail, as it occurs to us that it would be a blast if some other Seaport Sam members decided to come, and wanted to convoy along. The time frame for this Rally is good, in that the worst of Winter should be behind us so exiting and re-entering New England shouldn’t be too much of a problem. We’re probably going to make this a two week jaunt as we want to spend some time in the Savanna Ga area (we were there last year but on a tighter schedule) and also visit with some relatives in the Atlanta area. My thought was that we could work out departure and arrival dates with whoever was also going, and a loose itinerary. I know some folks don’t like to travel alone long distances (it’s about 1100 miles to Perry, Ga) and this might be a good way to break out of Winter into Spring. This past winter when we went South (it was a bit earlier, in February) we stayed winterized until Savanna and then flushed the water system at camp and had no problems.

Right now we’re looking at the Optional Tours http://www.therally.com/events/tours.cfm and getting ready to make our decisions on them….some look VERY good and interesting.

So, if anyone out there is interested click on the links above and call (860 892-5484 or cell 860 460-7945) or e-mail us (r.payette@snet.net) and we’ll talk!!

Best, Bob & Alice