Read and Knit---and Bake

It is ironic that when you have the most to write about is the time you have the least time to write.

Our family reunion is this weekend, and I spent some time making a banner, since the print shop wanted $95 to make a six foot banner---and I'm way too cheap to drop that kind of change on them! (The F is backwards on purpose. It's not a Michigan thing.)

I also spent yesterday baking bread that we, who knew my grandmother, remember so fondly. I hope it's as good as hers!

Then, when I wasn't doing that I knit a couple more inches on the prayer shawl in the picture. And read a couple stories from a collection by Annie Proulx, the author of Shipping News, and Brokeback Mountain. These stories are about Wyoming; the Wyoming of the past. Many people had some rough going out there while it was getting settled!

In the midst of the reunion weekend we begin our week of "vacation" at the lake. Brotherbob and his family started this tradition about 10 years ago when they decided to run in the Run Your Bass Off race in Crystal Falls, which morphed into renting cabins. A few years later our sons joined us and we rented more cabins and all had a week together as a family.

This year we've dwindled down to GoodGuy, Brotherbob and us wives. We will have some vistitors at times, but mostly we'll read and talk----and probably eat, if the past is any clue. We'll be back and forth from home because there's still golf to be played, and the garden to be weeded, and meetings to attend. It's hard to take a vacation from being retired, you know.

So I may not be around much next week, but God willing, I will return refreshed and full of interesting news! (Wouldn't that be novel!)

Revel in Summertime while I'm gone.