OK, now it's summer.

Perhaps eleven is an excessive number of photographs for one post. What the heck, though.

I didn't touch a computer for three days.

The kids made tye-dye shirts, cinnamon-chocolate ice cream, stayed up too late to mention, watching borderline-questionable movies, and slept like babies until well into the morning.

They bravely dove headlong into a muddy three acre pond, which this mother would rather not have to jump into to save them. (But I would! I promise!)

The grown-ups did a fair share of their regular work, then quit for the day, drank very good wine, made a lot (a lot) of really good food, and slept...well, maybe not quite like babies.

I read somewhere in blog-land recently (and if you are the one who said it, please remind me, because I can't find you now) that vacation is meant to be so much fun, but you really spend the time waiting to go back home. Or something along those lines.

I don't at all mean to imply that I didn't have the best time I could hope for, but only that, in the end, I do love coming home most of all.

I suppose that's the best I could hope for.

Glad to be home, but boy, was that fun. Thanks for reading.
tt

Hi and goodbye (until Thursday).

I'm stopping in here to say "hi" to anyone who may be saving a seat for me. Thanks. I'd love to sit down and chat, tell you about all the goodness that has come my way these last few days, see what you've been up to, and maybe share a drink and a laugh (or two).

But I haven't even packed yet, for myself or the one girl who (might) still need (let) me do so. I also haven't unpacked the groceries I just lugged in, for the one hour before we leave for our trip upstate. (I'm really cutting things close, here.)

I see my lack of preparedness, planning-ahead, and generally relaxed attitude about all things organizational for this trip as blissful progress. For me. To relax.

Yay, me.

I probably won't be back here until Thursday. Not that we don't have internet up at the farm, but because I will probably have to give my place in line to the nice people I'm travelling with who, you know, um...have jobs. And a little break from obsessively checking Flickr might be just the thing I need.

So enjoy the week all!

Goodbye for now. Thanks for reading.
tt