The green has meant we have been busy getting gardens ready. Mary's flower gardens around the house look great, but some critter has already started on her flox. I have one more row of carrots to plant and then I can take a break and just watch everything grow.
There was a lot of green along Joe's 26 mile marathon route this weekend. Not sure he had much reason to take it all in, at least after mile 6 or 13. One man at the finish line asked me if it was Joe's first marathon. He then offered that this was a particularly hard one to do for the first marathon, with all the hills. The biggest hill I think started at mile 25. But he finished it, and has bragging rights. I had signed up for the half-marathon and toyed with the idea of running even though my toes and my back had stopped me from training. I chickened out the night before. Congratulations, Joe. Margaret wrote him and asked if he pooped in his pants. We drove home in the same car with him and can reliably affirm that he did not.
Annie was up here as well for the long weekend. She is getting ready for her cross-country train trip which she starts this week. Another marathon. She is planning many different stops, including Chicago. We hope to see her when we are in Seattle. Yes, next week we fly to San Francisco for a Peace Corps conference, and then take advantage of being on the west coast to drive up to Seattle. Only two states away, but two full days of driving. We miscalculated since we thought it would be like driving from DC to New Jersey, also just two states away.
Other big news were graduations! In case you missed all the Facebook photos her proud parents posted, Annie had two graduation ceremonies, one for Teachers College and then one for the whole university. She carried the banner in to the cathedral for her psychology cohort of 100 people! And Maura also had two graduations, one for her nurse pinning and one for the school. Congrats to both. Mary went down for Maura's graduation, and then stayed on to swim in a memorial for Dan at the YMCA, that Annie also came up to swim in. Patrick, Kathleen, Maura, Elsie and Mary Fort joined for that event as well.
Annie hopes to see the Dundee folks on her way out west. Andrew and Lur too will be traveling shortly after that, off to Myrtle Beach SC for some deserved R&R. Lur, by the way, is taking a pottery class.
Margaret traveled to Pittsburgh this week for work, and I told her to sabotage anything related to the Pirates and the Steelers. We also see on Facebook California travel by Melodie and Jeffrey. Fun, fun, fun. And a little work.
Nature notes - The quiet Sunday morning on the porch was interrupted by a quiet, but very healthy fox, wandering by. He eventually saw me and ran off, but it was the closest I've been to a fox. Funny thing is that the cat decided not to go out for the whole day. Wonder if he could smell what I could only see.
Summer reading this year includes lots of Shaker books, another Melville novel, four Shakespeare plays (finished my class on the histories) and hopefully something fun. I thought that would include listening to Great Expectations in the long car rides back and forth to Amherst. But I am not sure if I have any expectation that I will finish that one.
We had some birthday celebrations - Matthew and Sean! Congratulations. And whenever Matthew has a birthday, it means Peter and Janet have a wedding anniversary. Hope everyone had spectacular celebrations.
We close with two photos of hair, Daniel at his prom and Pop on his honeymoon with Mom. Am I the only one to see the resemblance in style across generations?
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