On the road

It's Friday!  I should only write on Friday since it means we made it to another weekend and we're happy!
 
Seems like everyone's on the road.  Somewhere in this city is Janet who is down here for a conference on theater for the blind.  Somewhere in this city is not Peter, who decided at the last minute to come. 
 
Somewhere in Chicago is Margaret, with strict instructions to call Andrew and Lur.  She went there with her friend and roommate Adam, leaving behind their two dogs, with specific instructions, I understand.
 
And somewhere in western Mass is Mary, who has been gone for two weeks; and somewhere in eastern Mass is Annie, who moved up to her new job and home last weekend.  She's leaving home.  I think there's a song by that title.  On her way up north, Annie stopped over at Grandma's for a break in the drive.  We got an e-mail from Annie after her first day on the job - "loving it."
 
Joe came over last weekend, to get a good night's sleep before he took the GREs.  He had a great time in San Francisco with some St. Andrews buddies who had flown over and were doing a Las Vegas-Grand Canyon-California-Seattle tour.  Why didn't we think of that?
 
His buddies were coming east and Joe rented a pick-up truck for the weekend.  Zip Cars.
 
Speaking of cars, we're toying with taking advantage of the cash-for-clunkers deal.  Because we do have a clunker.  Hope the program doesn't run out of money before we make up our mind.
 
And our big news is it looks like our big project may finally be getting underway.  The contractor says he will tear down the old parts of the house in a couple of weeks.  Yikes.
 
Tomorrow, I am back on the road, going up to Pittsfield (via Southwest Airlines.)  I had gone up with Mary two weeks ago when we played host to our friend from Seattle, Valerie.  We had a grand time, showing her the sites and sounds (Tanglewood), and all the area offers.
 
So, we're back here on Wednesday, and then poor Mary has to go to work the following week.  Vacation's over.  Only ten weeks off.
 
I'm jealous.  So, all the news.  Hope everyone is having a great summer.  Love from down here. .