Summer Fading, Fall Looming...

Wow!  The summer has been fabulous and fast.  So many projects and trips.  We are home now and both starting school.  It will be good to get back into a school routine.  For me that means just a single class because I needed to take a break.  I will, however, be working a few days a week but will also have a couple of days home to take care of family things.

The weather has turned very cool for this time of the year and it is awesome.  We took the dog on a great walk this morning and then Ken and I did a 3 hour scooter ride on the back woods roads to Caledonia.  We had lunch at Mi Toro - WOW.  The Mexican food was wonderful, the restaurant was clean and the wait staff were very attentive...other food establishments could take lessons.  Definitely going back - one of the best eating establishments we've discovered in a long time!  You go Mi Toro - good luck.  

The house on the hill beside us is coming along very fast.  They started in May and the brick is going on now and the sheetrock was done last week.  It is a lovely house and the Faulkners are going to enjoy all the great windows they have to look at the views all around them.  

This is the first time since December I haven't seen my CA family and Owen at least every 2 months.  Seems strange...they should be here in November...very exciting.

Mulligan is enjoying the cooler air and continues to follow Ken around and pretends I don't exist - how can this be, I rescued the dog!  Doesn't she remember???  It is all that bonding time they had together in Maine this summer.  I think I will get a cat...

Later.

Across America!

The trip has started - Maine to Mississippi!  We have a day and a half on the road and so far everything is going great - just a few quirky things happening here and there!  It rained some today in CT and NY but then cleared up.  Maine is as beautiful as ever but we are ready to return home to MS, enjoy the rest of the summer and enjoy the fall.  

No blueberries this year!  First, not enough sun and then, too much rain.  There were quite a few berries, but they dried up on the bushes.  I can't believe I won't have my frozen Maine wild blueberries over the winter.

I flew back to Maine the end of July and had a great week and then we started shutting it down.  Nicole and Joshua drove up from Boston to visit with us.  We had a great time and it was wonderful seeing both of them.  Josh was a real help with some heavy lifting - way to go!

Thats about it for now - happy trails.  Later.