What's been happening

    Today is the first day since July 28 that shows an empty square on the calendar.  It's good to be busy, out with friends, doing and going, but after awhile it's sensory overload!  We are lucky, PH and I, we have friends who like our company and want to be with us.  Grandkids who are active and healthy.  We've spent a week at the old neighborhood at the beach, and back a few times to meet with friends for dinner,  there were concerts and lunches and the AQS show with Dodie and it's all been good.     
     We are always happy that we moved to this town and even though it's small there is always something happening and we are lucky to be able help our daughter at museum events.  We cook and pop popcorn during the summer concerts, set up chairs and tables for the big fundraiser and later attend that event, help with school tours, bake cookies for events, I joined the Friends of the Library, and then school started and I spend one day reading to and with kids.
     That doesn't leave much time for dusting and vacuuming, sewing or reading.  All of that slows down. Especially the sewing.  IF we are home in the evening I'm often too tired to think of straight stitches. I do wish the elves would come in the night and take some of my ideas out of my head and do them for me.  We often find ourselves curled up in a chair watching episodes of Longmire or Death in Paradise or Sherlock. My marathon late night reading sessions sometimes have to go by the wayside if I have an early morning the next day.
   We tried having a plot in the Lowell community garden this summer but won't do that again. The cost wasn't horrible if we actually got some produce.  It was a hot summer - very hot - and thus dry and if you weren't out there everyday watering the plants just didn't produce. It wasn't just us with a poor showing, none of the plots had what one would expect and a friend of mine who planted 65 tomato plants in her home garden harvested just one and a half bushels. She planted two long rows of squash and got ONE. Who ever gets just one squash!  The most we got was sweet potatoes and they look good but we've finally given up and come to the realization we will be supporting farm stands.  We found one that sells wonderful things for really cheap prices. 
   But again, I'm not complaining, PH and I tell each other all the time that we could be sitting in the house waiting for someone to notice us. 
    So, that's where it's been this summer.  It's come and gone and the leaves are beginning to turn a little, the breeze today is bringing cooler temperatures, it will soon be socks on.  Fall quilt retreat is soon and I look forward to seeing my quilting friends again. 

 We've seen our friends from the old neighborhood in South Haven a few times.


Bob and Carolyn got married in a beautiful ceremony on a boat. 

 What little stitching I've been doing.  This is a map of Lowell from 1952 and I'm going to make the border setting up as I go along. Not sure how long this will take but the project is a good take along.  I have SO many things I want to work on.

    Today I've opened the windows wide to let in the cool air, I won't leave the house for a minute, and am making Adelaide's birthday treat for school - whoopie pies.  Her momma is swamped busy and this is an easy way to help out.
     OH! and the worst part of all??? The computer died.  The hard drive with ALL of my pictures, ALL of our documents, ALL of our life that they tell us to live via a  computer is gone.  There was a HUGE hissy fit on my part when PH came home with THAT news.  New hard drive is bare naked.  I have to remember (isn't that such a  funny word?) everything we had on it and in my techie ignorance try to put things back on.  I did have the foresight a couple of years ago to back up the pictures on a flash drive and I did that, but they aren't all there.  I lost all of my book reviews.
   When we got the new hard driven computer home it still didn't work and after two more trips back to the store and one to the library for techie help and several phone calls and hissy fits where I was throwing everything from cupcakes to anything with a knife edge around the room  (poor PH) and hours more with remote help, the computer and monitor are now talking. In my defense, it took the techies a long time to admit that what was wrong could actually happen.  That's another reason why I haven't posted anything after the yo-yos.Girls, forget marrying a plumber or electrician.  Velcro yourself to a techie and your life will run smooth.