Beth Heads Home, Cloudy Skies and Rain Forecast

Morning with Granny

Rose at 5:45, surprised the sun was beginning to lighten the dark room, as three girls slept on the mattress in our room, limbs and covers array, as usual.  The reassuring summer sounds of fishing boats starting a fishing tournament, welcomed me as I walked outside.  Not many of them this year, as times change on the lake, fewer boats, tournaments, people overall.  Much cooler, 69 degrees out,  and the scariest of all, leaves had fallen on our backyard, the first sign of autumn, that summer is waning.  Amazing how time flies, devours the present.

Cleaning the Kitchen

Beth heads home today, may leave Marisa and Mitch with us for the week, but nothing is for certain as Marisa got cold feet last night.  So it's up in the air.  Beth must get home today, as Tyler heads off tomorrow to Dartmouth's crew camp.  Tom and Mary leave tomorrow, Jill stays the week, so we will have little girls around for the week, if not Mitch and Marisa.

Painting Rocks in the Afternoon

We had another great dinner, Lighthouse rotisserie chicken, and everyone agreed that it's the best they have had, better than Costco, Stew Leonard, and Weggies.  The corn was great as well, finally maturing and coming in to season, and we finished off Mary's tomato sauce with some sausage from the Lighthouse, to finish the meal.  We sat outside and talked into the evening, as the kids went to the playground, had their ice cream cones, read up stairs, wrote in their journals, and finally went to sleep, after fireworks re-energized them about 10:30.  Some how they manage to stretch an early bed time in to  a record setting late bed time. Unfortunately, three of them still get up early, as Hayden's the only one who sleeps in.

Memorial Rock, Summer, 2011

Re-energized by Fireworks

It looks like rain today, some cloudy and cooler weather ahead for the week, the kind we used to have at the lake, with highs in the 70's, not high 80's and I am looking forward to it, getting rid of the air conditioners, sleeping with windows open, a breeze rustling the blinds.

Beth and Tyler left about 9:00, Marisa and Mitch deciding to stay with us for the week.  Soon, Evie and  the girls are off to the Blueberry Farm, again, this time to help feed the chickens, play with the dog (he does tricks for treats), and pick a few more berries because we sent quite some off with Beth.  She has about a 7 hour drive, probably cloudy most of the way, but I hope no major thunderstorms.  It looks like it's been going to rain here for the past three hours but nary a drop for my new lawn...the gods are playing with me again,  No doubt when the rains do come, it will be a deluge.