Yesterday I had 4 conversations with 4 different people about the hour of 3 AM. Two younger and two older:

1. I didn't see you at the dance party last night....what time did you leave? Oh I must have just missed you I got there at 10:30. I left at 3:00 I'm tired today.

2. I was up at three worried about my boat, Hurricane Dan is coming and I needed to get her buttoned up, I worked till 6:00 then came here. I'm tired.

3. I couldn't sleep again, I was up at 3:00... and did useful things in the basement. I got a lot done but I'm tired.

4. I think I went to bed at 3:00, just got up a little while ago, still.... I'm tired.

AHHHH sweet life I sing of thee.

A few pics from the past week:

Yesterday was 90 degrees out. An occurrence that will only happen a rare sweet hand full more times this year I'm sure. Savor...

So...we got up early, sat outside with coffee (6:30) and watched the birds at the feeder. Then we walked and swam, I mowed, went for a bike ride, we ate salad with fresh cherry tomatoes under the tree, a nap in the hammock, I fixed a broken fan, went to work for a few hours, came home ate popcorn and ice cream and drank cold white wine (w/TT and CAF).

CAF and I lay in the hammock again under a quilt under the stars watching the last of the Pleiades meteor shower.Well I did anyway while she snoozed, waking up only long enough to say "what was that???" several times, squeeze my hand and then back to sleep. The Annoying buzz of the mosquito's finally was the thing that sent us to bed (11:00).

Well it's been almost a month since my last post so I thought i should check in. July is a busy month when you live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. We've had lots of guests, Nancy and Larz, Randy and Mary (a first visit from them) and J-Fay and the D.

dowstudio gallery has had 2 open houses, and a visit from the Society of Arts and Crafts Boston crowd. CAF had her thumb fixed so she hasn't been able to use her right hand for the last week but the stitches are coming out today. TT took her to Elsworth.

There has also been a lot of activity at the School. The big summer auction, the board meeting, the Conference and 2 sessions.

I also experienced a lot of personal loss in July.

My Ipod died (old friend of 4 years), our cell phone had an untimely death (Steven's juggling episode), our faithful electric coffee pot stopped working (please) and both of my cameras died, one I dropped and one fell in the ocean (see happy boat ride 4th of July). Oh and my computer crashed.

So here we are several weeks later and I'm trying to put all the pain behind me. Thanks to on- line shopping we have a new coffee pot (first things first), I have a new Ipod (120gig-a tough decision to go with room for lots of music or the slick cool Itouch. I am pleased with my choice -room for 28,ooo songs since I maxed out my 30gig a long time ago). One camera is repaired (seems it was a Sony recall, so fixed at no $. The other I replaced and last weekend I drove to BGR and got a new cell phone (same #). Steven fixed my computer, although I lost some music picture and doc files as well as some $.

That catches you up.

Oh and the sun finally came to Maine after 100 inches of rain (maybe).