"September, I'll remember"

Where's that quote from?  (Read to the end of letter.)

I hardly remember the last few weeks, another whirlwind of travel and activity.  And not just for us, but it looks like for many of you as well, taking advantage of the long Labor Day weekend to.....

Move.  Annie moved to her new apartment in Queens and while the move seemed more drawn out than it should have been, she loves where she is.  She came up over the weekend to pick up stuff she had kept here, and to pick up a car.  Because....

We bought a new car, or I should say Mary did.  It was also a more drawn out process than it needed to be, because over the course of the past two months we actually purchased three cars, and two of them fell through.  Anyway, Mary finally got to choose a car she wanted -- riding in style and comfort in a Honda Accord - leather seats.  I have to admit is nice.  We took it on a test drive over Labor day weekend to.....

North Carolina.  On the way down there, we stopped over and stayed with Andrew and Margaret and heard all about their trip to South Africa.  We headed south to Chapel Hill to visit our Peace Corps friend Charlie and his family and drove his son all the way back to Williams in one day.  I guess we do love the new car.  Sometimes I catch Mary out in the garage just hugging it.  We also went to a wedding for a young man whose parents we knew in Peru....

not Portugal which is where Joe was these past two weeks, traveling all around that beautiful country.  He came back after Labor Day, and spent this past weekend also moving, into his new house, also harder than it should been.  What has been easy, though, is....

catching up on Facebook news, with the Peter Dicksons attending a wedding for Kieren (sp?) and Sean going skeet shooting; Jeff and Melodie headed out to Minnesota, and some fishing, it looks like; Bill and Jen and family went up to Door County (been there?); and Janet marking the third anniversary of her broken leg (still hurts.)

Mary's friend Marj and her whole family were in Pittsfield this weekend for her mother's memorial service and then for Marj's sister's 50th wedding anniversary.  Nice to see a family come together for major life events.  Lots of singing, laughter, eating and love.  We'll have to get the singing together next summer in the Poconos.

What else?  We heard Matthew has started his graduate studies, so he will be a busy somebody in a busy household the next few years.  Margaret began her last semester of school.  John and Marilyn also have a new car, switching from the practical, politically correct Prius to the stylish ride of a Cadillac.  That's 180 degrees.  

Lots of baseball, with the Mets surging, the Reds eliminated and the Yankees closing in.  And football has started, but who's watching anything but Tom Brady's court case?

So, we have a whiff of fall weather right now, enough to know what's ahead.  Hopefully not for a few more weeks.  Hope you all are healthy, happy and safe.  Love from up here.

(and the quote is from Simon and Garfunkel "April Come She Will.")