WOW!

Worst Quiddler hand ever! I did manage to pick up an H and discard an A before Trevor went out. He won this game! His score was 318 mine was 295. ( I don't always win.)

I've been slacking about blogging!

It's raining today. All day. Summer's over. Boo hoo.... was wishing that since we got April for July that we'd get July for September or something like that but I'm wrong.

We had a beach day on Wednesday. We went to my new favorite beach, Rocky Neck Beach State Park in Connecticut. It's about 1.5 hours from here. The water was really warm, the sand super fine, and a bit windy (watch out for that umbrella!). I was so happy to be there I was jumping up and down in the water. Waves were good too! I got a few new freckles, too. Nothing like a beach day to cure what ails me.

I made a book display in the fiction department at the good old Springfield City Library where I volunteer once a week. This time my theme is "Culinary Mysteries". And, no, it's not mystery food. Although, that's what you sometimes find in the back of the fridge when you've forgotten about leftovers. Culinary Mysteries are cozy mysteries (the kind of mystery where you never read about the blood and gore of the actual murder) with a cooking theme. On Monday I'll make a book list to go along with the display. My last fiction display was quite popular with the patrons. I'm hoping this one will be too.

I'm not making any promises about blogging more often since that didn't stick last time.

Signed by the Artist

Every year, towards the end of the 2 week session at camp we have an auction of items from the sales table. The auction is a fund (and fun) raiser for camp. Some of the items aren't that special (meaning they've been sitting on the table for almost 2 weeks and no one has bought them), and go for more than twice their ticket price. Hand-made items are very popular at the auction. I really liked this small painting done by our friend, Anna Rich, so Trevor bid on it and won it! It's about 4"x6". And she signed it for me!

Anna is an illustrator for children's books. Her latest book is called Under the Night Sky. It's about the Northern Lights and it's gorgeous. We also auctioned a copy of the book and it went for $40! Her son, Otto, who is 10, told us, "it took a really long time, believe me".

Back to "Normal"

We just returned from 2 weeks in Maine. This photo is from last summer though. On the last day we were there, my camera got wet and it's not working properly. Last summer the Saco River was so high we never got a chance to swim in it. This summer it was quite high the 1st week, but by the middle of the 2nd week we were able to swim in it. On Sunday afternoon, Trevor and I enjoyed a leisurely canoe trip from camp downstream to Swan's Falls. If you actually paddle it takes 2 hours. If you hardly paddle at all, like us, it takes 3 hours. I prefer the latter.

We returned to stifling heat and a broken washing machine and happy-to-see-us cat.

More news about camp to follow.