We had a great weekend at the lake, beautiful weather, good-natured people, lots of food, and this birthday to celebrate. Dan baked the cake, and all the excited people sang. He’s probably not a particularly excited person anymore. He used to be. But now he’s calm. Sweet, lovely Alicia: We love you so very dearly. […]
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The heat left us today, though I understand it will return next week. Today was overcast and soft, cool breeze, no hard edges of any kind. Kids came for lunch and Legos and these two cared for baby dolls and dug in bins. We walked up to the park and it was nice there today.
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The beaches in Jacksonville are stunning. Or maybe beaches everywhere just ARE. This was a surfing class, which was cool to watch. This is how students learn, with a teacher holding the board steady while waiting for a cute, little wave. It reminded me of holding up water skiiers by the life vest, steadying
After the boat tour, we toured this college campus, Flagler College. This used to be a hotel for very high end guests back in the day. In the late 1960s, it was re-purposed as a school. The dining hall. Yep, I love weird lamps. There was even a fireplace in the Ladies Room. And this
Today we went to see sights in St. Augustine. The morning was warm and bright, the waves and the wind, all perfect, That’s a big turtle in the water. This is the restaurant in the marina. The oldest fort in the universe, apparently. Very old. Anyway, a gorgeous morning. love, Val
Kirsten spent the month of July at home with us in Minneapolis. But now the month is coming to and end, so we accompanied her on the drive back to Florida and we’ll take a plane home in a couple days. After we had supper, she took us to the beach. Even though it was
The Little Pool is as blindingly bright and wonderful as ever. The babies are cautious and stay amused along the wall. The others are fish who swim and fight. There’s Kari, looking ghostly in the stairway as she headed down to sing Happy Birthday to Julia. They all went out for supper last night while
We had a big, loud party tonight in the heat. We haven’t had a party like this in quite a long time, it seems like. All these people I love so dearly were here, even including this little dog. They’re all into Pokemon Go, and there was some kind of Power Rangers theme happening too.
Is heading into his last year of homeschool and looking like not much of a kid anymore. I love you, Buddy, Mom
And summer nights. We went to the fireworks Sunday night, took these pictures before they started. The Little Pool is same as ever: Some kid bit hunks out of this soaker toy and spit the chunks all over my car in the backseat. Nice. We went out to Maple Grove for this. They have
