William and his friend Nathan play a video game at our room at the Windrifter.
Danny takes a big bite of one of our latest concoctions: an elongated burger patty mixed with marina and mozzarella, served on a sub roll with extra sauce.
Karen discovers an interesting storage cabinet at the local hobby/craft store, but wants to build one herself so that she can decorate it just as she pleases.
Gordon stands by the fallen remains of our temporary (yeah, temporary—for seven years) back deck, which has to make way for the remainder of the new deck.
Thomas had abandoned this gray blanket. We washed it and set it aside to give away, when Sukkie decided that it belonged to her, and a new cat bed was born.
William runs in to defend at a home game. William put in a good second half, but the Knights still lost 6-2.
William and Daniel getting ready to get to the bus on a rainy day. It cleared up enough later in the day to allow for soccer practice, though.
While the rest of the family plays Uno, Gordon brushes up his guitar playing.
William, Thomas, Karen, Erin, and Danny (in the foreground) play Uno with Alec, who is one of the regulars in our camping group and loves to spend time with Danny and William.
Thomas, William, and Karen play Uno with Thomas' girlfriend Erin; Tom and Erin joined us the first night while we were camping.
Gordon tries one of the snickerdoodles mixed by William and baked by Karen for the campout. Good stuff.
Gordon whips up some hummus for our weekend camping trip.
A rainbow greeted us from over the house as we were waiting for the bus.
Daniel with his lime green backpack, ready for his first Friday hike of the season. The program he's in in middle school goes out on hikes most Fridays, rain or shine (or snow).
William and Daniel get ready to board the bus on their first day back at school. William's a high-school sophomore, and Daniel is starting the eighth grade.
Thomas prepares some salad to go with our pork Adobo dinner.
Some white fluffy clouds and their shadows during our flight from Salt Lake City to Detroit.
William looking handsome in his new suit.
William tries in vain to hear the "Doctor Who" episodes he loaded onto his tablet in the noisy jetliner. His Uncle Andy bought him some better headphones that helped for the trip back.
William looks out of the window at the Great Salt Lake. He was fascinated by the terrain in that part of the country; we've never flown into Salt Lake City before.
Gordon grabs a quick selfie aboard the first leg of his and William's flight to Fresno.
William waits at Logan for the long two-leg flight to Fresno.
Karen and William shop for a suit for the trip to Fresno.
Daniel plays a game at the GameStop near Karen's store. We had to take Karen to work to get Daniel to a medical appointment, so we made an afternoon of it.
Karen's fancy new nail polish. I think the color is called "pecan."
Gordon is building this doorjamb in the basement. It's the first time he's done anything like this, but pre-hung doors are expensive, and we got the door slab free from a friend who's downsizing.
Karen sprucing up the cabinets in the basement. We're setting the kitchen back up.
William cuddles with Sukkie, who's doing much better, though she still needs a lot of medication, much to her annoyance.
When Karen and Gordon were out at the gallery checking out a friend's showing, this amazing truck bed caught Karen's eye. Turns out that its owner/built is a teacher at the local private school.
Karen enjoys a meal with Gordon at one of our favorite places, Lone Oak in Rochester. Delicious burgers and sandwiches and (of course) ice cream.
Click the picture to see the full vertical panorama of Gordon's very long shadow on the beach.
William tried to win a stuffed Pikachu (a Pokemon character) at the ring toss, but kept winning a tiny little plastic lizard instead.
Karen used Gordon's phone to grab this selfie at the beach.
Daniel was the only one who braved the waters at the beach in York. For August, the water was decidedly chilly.
William and Karen take a stroll along the beach in York, Maine.
William rides one of the go-carts at York Amusement Park. He went because Danny wanted someone to race with, but at over six feet, William barely fits in the cart.
Daniel sets up his new tent on the back deck, not to camp out, but to make sure he can set it up easily, and that he fits in it. He does, barely, and probably not by next camping season.
Karen looks at some old Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell. The museum has a display on Rockwell's work during the war and post-war years, including a lot of things that neither Karen nor I had seen before.
Daniel watches one of the many informative videos at the Wright Museum, and museum devoted to American history during World War II.
Gordon and Sukkie sit on the sofa. Sukkie has been hiding in William's room a lot lately, suspicious that we're going to do some kind of medical procedure on her whenever she leaves, so we bring her out to socialize whenever we get the chance.
Danny grates some zucchini for chocolate zucchini bread, which is delicious and very unlike regular zucchini bread.
Gordon gets in a little practice with his Gibson Maestro guitar that he picked up for camping trips. For a cheap guitar, it sounds very nice!
The bread board had to share the kitchen table with tools and materials while Gordon worked on trimming out the kitchen window.
Ambush gets distracted from her view out the window by something in the house. Probably, this time of the year, a bug of some kind.
