"Beautiful and boring Vermont"? I disagree! Vermont's just beautiful, not boring! I like quiet....

hi, i just wanted to say hello, but maybe a little more is okay, too. i just spent a week in san francisco. it was mostly work, but a few days of fun as well. i did real tourist stuff. i have before and probably will again. san fran is a fun place to do that. i went to the haight-ashbury street festival. i can tell you that there was nothing average about the average person there. wow! many wore black because there is no darker color. bands rocked LOUD. in contrast, the museums were wonderfully quiet and interesting. also, i saw starship (was jefferson starship, after being jefferson airplane) in an outdoor concert that was super. so i am back to beautiful and boring vt. good thing that i am boring too. next week is arizona, yahoo!!

Happy Summer Everyone!
Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine and warmth. It was a perfect day here. High 70s and a little breeze with lots of sun. It just makes you feel good....having the summer off helps too! All my kids and grandbabies will be home this weekend. It will be hectic but fun. Alumni weekend here too...next year will be ours again. How time does fly. Enjoy family and friends.....Happy Thoughts!

I will be available to meet with you. I don't have any big plans this summer. My kids are coming this Friday. Suzanne and her friend John will drive up from NYC on Friday night. I pick Amanda and the kids up at the airport on Friday morning. Not sure if Andrew can get this weekend free or not. If not, he'll be up the weekend of the 4th for sure. It is hard to find time for the "adult" children to all be unbusy at the same time. I really value those times. I am trying to get my house put together again....painted Andrew's old room....I told him its now a guest room...got to hang curtains and shades...We had big storms this afternoon. It was 90 here at noon, very hot for us. The rain has cooled it down which is good. I really try hard not to complain when the temperature gets warm because I really don't like to be cold. The state released lots of flies to breed on the tent caterpillars and they are very annoying outside. It did cut back on the caterpillars here so I guess its a good thing. They were really eating many trees.
Here's to getting together, family and friends...Happy Thoughts...

Good, Patti, I'll be looking forward to that weekend! What do you say, Kathi? Will you be around at that time if we drive down to Springfield?

We went out for Father's Day. First we went to see my son's apartment in Santa Monica. He moved there recently with a friend (the son of our best friends). We walked from his house to Main Street where they have all kinds of restaurants. My son's girlfriend and daughter's boyfriend also came. It was nice to be together--we seem to have a hard time sometimes finding a time that suits ALL of us, so it's a treat when we do.

Dave and I generally enjoy our sons more as adult kids than we did as real kids. It's apples and oranges I suppose though. Different stages of life, they're really different people now of course. Most of the time we love having them here. Sometimes though when they're out of work for example; just helping out around the house isnt' enough if they're not actively looking for work. But what good does forcing them out of the house really do. Some peoplke say we enable them to be less than. Less than what I wonder. I'll miss Colin terribly when the time is right for him to be on his own again It'll be good for all of us I'm sure but Im not rushing the moment.

Enjoy the lake Karen, sounds like you can use some serious rain in your area. We're living with hazy, hot and humid, high 80's, expected rain and thunder but no sign of the wet stuff yet.

Looking at the weeknd of the 18th to head over for a couple of days in August Lori. Kathi will you be available then? If so, maybe you could call Janice and see if she's available for the four of us to meet? Sure wish you could around too Karen. I'm looking forward to it!!

Summer is definitely here in Vermont. It is 85 and sunny. BBQ time today for Father's Day, just Neil and I.
We have our house back. My sister-in-law left today to go to NC to wait out hearing about jobs. It was okay with her here some but it was time for moving on.
My daughter and grandbabies come on Friday for 2 weeks. I will go to Hartford to the airport to pick them up. It will be fun. They change so fast. Suzanne will come up from NYC for a few days and Andrew will come up from Concord to see them. Next Saturday is the alumni parade. It will be Amanda's 10th reunion....they are having a picnic at Plymouth Lake on Sunday....remember how our class went there for a classtrip....so exciting!
I hope all of you enjoy the day relaxing....Happy Thoughts.........