Foggy and Overcast on Friday

6:40

Weeding the Orange Brick Road

New Vases and Holder, compliments of Beth

The New Porch Furniture and Fan...tres chic

Up at 6:45 and Beth's already up, making coffee.  Evie soon came down. It's  a warmer morning, around 67 and humid, as it has rained quite a bit over the past twenty four hours.  We have already started making menus for the week, as Jill and Tom's families arrive today.  The grocery list seems endless, as we try to figure out what we will need for the next four days, so we don't have to keep going to the store.  It never works; we always think of something else we need or forgot.

Yesterday was gray, rainy in the morning, cloudy and some rain in the afternoon, just right for organizing the upstairs bedrooms, ours so that four little girls can sleep on the floor, the others, one for each family, with the boys sleeping wherever, downstairs in the TV room, or on air mattresses in their parent's room.  It depends on how late they stay up watching movies.

Beth and Tyler went off to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh for the day and Rami left for NYC in the early morning so it was just Marisa, Mitch, Evie and I.  We did do some weeding in the morning, clearing our brick path of weeds and grass, with the big help of Mitch and Marisa.  Later in the afternoon, Marisa, Mitch and I went off to Sugar Grove, PA, to a grocery store to pick up Pot of Gold milk and gas.  When we arrived in town, the electricity was out, a result of earlier storms, so I couldn't get gas and the grocery store was dark.  Fortunately, if I had cash, I could get the milk, so the cashier gave us a flashlight and we went back to the cooler, picked out two half gallons of chocolate milk, one of whole, and a couple of smaller bottles of chocolate for the kids to drink on the way home.  This milk comes straight from the dairy and is amazingly fresh, creamy and good.

For dinner, we got a pizza and Caesar's salad from the Hadley House, ate out on the front porch, and finished just as Beth and Tyler returned from Carnegie Mellon.  It sounds like Tyler liked the school but it's not in his first five, too specialized in the first couple of years, perfect for someone who is sure of what they want to do.  He wants something a bit more open, in case he chooses to move from mechanical to electrical engineering, or something like that.  We had peach crisps for dessert and watched some TV before going to bed.  A cooler night, we did not need air conditioning though it was humid.