But it is not all about me. Can you believe how fast these last 4 weeks have gone by? The month started, and we were outside working and playing and swimming, and now we have the heat on, and fires in the fireplace. This weekend, we started shutting down the summer, moving the grill into the garage and perhaps putting away the lawn mowers. Time marches on.
The photo is another sign of mourning. It was Peter's last jar of Mom's chili sauce, which we enjoyed last week end when Mary and I headed down to NJ to check in on the recuperating Janet and her live-in caregiver, Peter! We had burgers and cleaned out the chile sauce, and Peter found a couple of store bought replacements we will have to use.
Janet is (and has been) surprisingly upbeat about her leg and loss of mobility. She's going to work, to the theater (a cast party!), to stores and restaurants. It's a lot of work for her but it is admirable all she is doing. We helped do household chores, and enjoyed lots of conversation about the election and school and jobs. Peter and I went to a soccer game and we watched "The Hunger Games." Johanna was arriving the day we left, so more help was coming. She and Sean and a former student of Peter's had gone Saturday night to see Bruce Springsteen at the Meadowlands. Or whatever it's called these days. And, prior to that Johanna had spent the week on Martha's Vineyard, at Janie's house.
Mary came back and got a call for substitute teaching, which she did twice this week. A start. She came to Northampton one night as I had to stay over, and she checked out her old college haunts,including her old rental, just steps away from the railroad tracks. Oh to be young.
She has been busy as well doing landscaping around the house, so we are filling in the beds near the foundation. Hope the deer leave it alone. Mary saw a wolf when she drove in the driveway one day, so maybe we won't need a dog to keep the deer away. But, what would you rather have, a wolf or deer? Or Little Red Riding Hood?
Annie was supposed to be going to Myanmar today for a brief vacation. Wow. She had looked into changing jobs, but then decided to stay where she was. Margaret and Andrew had tickets last week to the Patriots game in Baltimore. They made some new friends with wierdos with purple, spiky hair. And Joe spent last weekend at Ann Arbor, where he saw a college football game. He sounds busy at work. Good.
This weekend, we had a houseful, with Marj and Lew, and Marj's mother here for the night. Friends dropped by for birthday cake. We think the big attraction is Bubbles, our new, very social kitty. Two weekends ago, we had another houseful with friends of Mary's from her school in Maryland, and brother Dan, who came up for his high school reunion! We love visitors!
The leaves are turning here, and we're almost at peak foliage. The rain has made things a little dreary but what's not to love with the change of seasons.
Hope you all are well. Love from up here.
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