What a Fabulous Summer it Was.... *contented sigh...*

It actually hit 80 degrees on Saturday!!! AND it was sunny!!! Started off the morning with Therese, having COCONUT LATTES at Starbucks! While I was lounging around gabbing and sipping coffee, Stan was at home digging out turf from the yard where we planned to put in a walkway.

Then I headed home and Stan & I went off to dragonboat practice. In warm sunshine!! It was glorious, but also the biggest challenge I've had yet as tiller. The wind was also blowing pretty hard, lots of speed boats were out, and the river is still really high with the current running really fast. I was actually sore the next day from hauling on the till so hard! Anyway, the funniest thing was... Well, it seems every time we run a practice race there is some slow-moving vehicle that decides to park right in the middle of the race lane. We've had fishing boats, stand-up paddle boards, rafted speed boats, a sailboat, a paddle boat, kayaks, etc all decide to hover there when it's race time!! Well this time beats all, though...

A PLANE ended up sitting in our way!!! (This picture was taken before we went out on the boats...)

Then we went home and mostly finished the path project. I'd forgotten quite how warm 80 degrees is! (I'm NOT complaining!!) I say "we", but really Stan did most of the work. I mostly piled sod, went to the store for supplies and cooked dinner.

Sunday we got up and went to church. Then we did much work preparing the yard and cleaning house in order to host Patrick's birthday party at 5pm. I made some food, too, though Patrick's mom brought a lot of the food. It was actually quite nice! Let's see... it was Stan & I & Nick, Alex & Alix, Patrick & Alisha, and their friends Dylan & Nicki and their 2 little ones Devin and Elizabeth (they are 4 and 2), and Trey. Val and Teresa & Leo, Mary & Ladd and Edna. I'm so glad it didn't rain!! About 8 o'clock as the party was winding down it started sprinkling, then a distant thunderstorm!We sat in the gazebo for a long time watching the lightning. It never really did rain much here, but it was a good show.

Today I finished planting flowers in the newly constructed pathways. I also met with the faculty advisor for the Travel & Tourism certificate program at Mt. Hood Community College. HOPEFULLY I have everything filled out that I need from him now, as it took months (literally) to manage to set up a meeting with him. Then he was 35 minutes late to this one. But I'm excited to do this next year. Stan's off getting a haircut, Nick's taking his Physics final and I'm about to heat up some leftovers for dinner before we head off to dragonboat practice. (Rose Festival is this weekend!!!)

Now it's back to being drizzly and about 58 degrees out. Summer was great while it lasted...