OK...Till Peg shows up and fills us in on the harvesting and Farmer Joe and the sacred cows, lets, get reacquainted.

ANN and Mrs D and Paj and Craig and I have all been doing some vacating away from home this summer. Please let us know where you've been and what you would recommend if you've done something that is not just visiting family (or if you wish to recommend that!)

The first half of our summer was almost too busy. Our Rotary Club does their big fundraiser for the community mid-July with a goal to raise $100,000 for charitable programs in the area that fall through governmental cracks. We've been doing a Hot Air Balloon Festival for 28 years now and I've been heavily involved with it for the past 10. Finally trained someone to do my multiple jobs so that I can support instead of carry a lot of the work next year.

Dave and I went to a music camp in the White Mountains that we've missed for the last two summers but have been attending since 1990. Good food, good friends, good music. Dave's been doing a lot of kayaking this year and is playing around in the surf this year for the first time. Still sailing but not as much.

We are in the process of adding an addition to the house to be a therapy room where water exercise will reign but there is also space for mats (yoga anyone?) , treadmill, stationary bike and weights. I may have MS but my goal , now that the foot is as healed as it's likely to get, is to tone and get some stamina back and prevent further injury.

I hear from dayle once in a while. She's still having a rough go with her digestive issues and her daughter has been ill most of the spring and summer to boot.

Laz has bought (on craig's list or ebay...I forget) a good sized sailboat, refurbished it and is sailing with his wife during the summer vacation in the waters off Oregon and Washington. He's loving it!

Eli (kidoftheking) is in the process of moving from the south west to the north central part of the country at the end of this month.

ANN (stillstANNding) has spent some time on the Cape but has had some trouble with MS flaring with the hot summer we've had.

Dee is back on Tysabri and thrilled. She's fully recovered from her recent surgeries and looks great.

Howard has Pinky basically restored and is still writing poetry and is awaiting his annual visit from Sven.

How is laura doing with chemo...and paj's DIL? We haven't had updates in a while.

And Patrice? How is the foot?

Please, catch us up on what has filled your life while the Boards have been down.