End of Summer

This really is the year that I’m thinking where did the summer go?  Good thing Mike, Hanka, and Marek came over from Prague and spent a week with us or I’d really be feeling like there was no summer.

We rented a big ranch house across the street from Lake Michigan in South Haven.  I found it on line through our favorite site, vrbo.com (vacation rental by owner).  College buddy of Mike’s, Steve and family, came over from Madison for four of the days.  We spent a lot of time on the north and south patios of the rambling rancher depending upon where the sun was.  Had salmon on the grill and a couple of great salads, both compliments of Steve and Laura. 

Kirk and Amy are near Towanda, Pennsylvania.  Their apartment is a barn recently converted into a duplex.  It sounded really nice.  He’s enjoying the change from inspecting oil pipelines, heat, and no trees of southern Utah to inspecting natural gas line installations in the wooded rolling hills of Pennsylvania.  Amy is going from full time office manager to doing both office duty and inspection duty.  Diversifing, always a good career move.  They plan to be there a couple of years.  They spent the 4^th of July with Amy’s family on the Gulf Coast, thoroughly enjoying their time there. 

BFF Kathy in Virginia Beach said they stayed dry.  Hurricane Irene gave them a lot of wind and rain, but they didn’t have any damage or flooding.  Their power was out for a couple hours, one of the luckier areas around Virginia Beach.

It was unusually hot summer.  Instead of a having the air conditioning on a half dozen days throughout the summer, it was on continuously for a good two weeks more than once.  We had a really nice couple of weeks in August.  Today it’s back to the high 80’s and high dew point.  That will end tonight when the cold front from Canada moves through.  



Hanka, Marek, Mike, Walter, Steve, Laura