Well..... I hadn't realized it had been so long since I last updated. You know the old saw, time flies when you are having fun, it is true. Life has been pretty busy.

Usually for the Fourth of July, my family goes over to some friend's house and we have a pretty decent private display. But this summer being in Maine and all, where all fireworks but sparkelers are illegal, I didn't set off a single firework. Instead I went with the Bouchards and spent a couple of days on the coast near Arcadia National Park and saw a fireworks display in Bar Harbor.  It was quite nice. The sky was overcast the whole time we were on the coast except for a couple of hours. But it didn't rain until near the end of the fireworks display. 

This summer it has apparently been rainier and colder than usual, but last weekend it was sunny and warm. Warm being about 75 degrees. :-)  So the Bouchards and I went to a beach. Quite fun. It was the first time I had actually swum in an ocean that I can remember.  

 Today we were going to go Whale watching, but one of the Bouchard girls wanted to go when we went, but had something else she was doing. So I got to just spend the day hanging out with the rest of the Bouchards.

 I finally closed my FaceBook account. A couple of months ago, I got fed up with all the junk on FaceBook and quite using it. So today I decided that I really didn't need to have an account if I wasn't using it so I totally deleted it. 

 I don't like the whole social networking thing. Rather than have 200 "friends" on facebook who I hardly know and rarely talk to, I would rather have two or three friends in real life who I talk to a lot and know well. On top of that I didn't like the applications that would ask you to rate your friends against each other and then go to your friends and say something like, this friend said this about this other friend, click here to see what he said about you. That is just one way in which it is too easy to get someone mad at you.  I may have friends I think of as closer than others, but I am never going to tell someone where they rank. :-) 

 So that is my life besides work. Which goes on and is fun. 

 Ciao!

Sam officially graduated. He was second in the line up out of a grand total of eight or nine people. That was a week ago Friday.  Sunday we scattered. Sam left for Alaska where he will be working on a fishing boat for the summer. My eldest brother and his wife went back to their house in PA. My second oldest brother went back to his job in Illinois. Dad and my sisters went back to Missouri. Mom went to Birmingham, Alabama where she attended a geneology conference. And I flew back to Boston and took a bus back to Maine. Quite a long trip. I had an hour and a half flight to San Francisco then a three hour layover then a five hour flight to Boston, then a seven hour wait for the bus then a five hour bus ride. Yay! I got back at ten AM the day after I left.

 This week Anna and Stephanie got back. Stephanie went to visit her brother in Arizona and to drive back with Anna from Texas. They arrived Friday evening.  Then yesterday evening the Worship Radio Network helped to sponsor a concert with Joel and Janna, a brother and sister who sing, and Rush of Fools, a Christian worship band from Alabama. It was a good concert. About a hundred and fifty people showed up.  

 Goodbye, goodnight, guten tag, buenos noches, and all the rest.