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Sounds like a busy week. I remember being amazed the first time we drove through upstate New York. I had no idea it was so beautiful. The whole area is amazing. On a trip to Lake Placid we took a ferry across Lake Champlain to Burlington. We only drove through. I'd like to go back.

I've tried to figure out how to make hopping from one hotel to another each night go smoother. I use packing cubes, and sort by category, one cube had bottoms, one tops etc so I don't have to dig through all my clothes, just unzip each cube and take out what I need. My BIL and SIL traveled all over in their SUV. They had a clothes pole across the back of the hatch, and a lot of their wardrobe on hangers. When they arrived at the hotel for the night, they would open the hatch and pick out what they were going to wear the next day, and only bring that and their toiletries bag in. Or I could try to be like my son who has one of those deluxe backpacks for work trips. That and his laptop is all he brings.

The visit with my parents went pretty well. I made dinner Sunday night and BFF and my Aussie sister and her husband came so there was good conversation. Monday DH and I went kayaking on my parents lake. The lake was so calm, the sky blue, and no other boats in sight. The only snafu: my parents don't put a dock out anymore, so DH and I were scrambling down the bank (about 6feet) and DHs kayak got away from him and floated off. We VERY carefully launched mine so it didn't suffer the same fate and I was able to get in and go retrieve his.

Monday evening, we met up with some more high school friends to go to the corn festival in my little home town. Smalltown parade with lots of floats featuring the "royalty" from neighboring small towns, and of course our own Corn Carnival Queen, followed by pork chops from the Lion's booth, pie from the Lutheran Church stand and ice cream from the Rotary Booth. Sadly, the free sweetcorn didn't start until Tuesday night.

Tonight meeting some work friends for Happy Hour, and tomorrow night having dinner with BFF, her son, and his family.

We've strung together more than 3 days without rain, and the temps have returned to the mid 80s. Feels like summer!

Have an awesome time, Liz. Saratoga and Lake George are favorites from growing up in the capital district. I'm loving hearing about eyeryone's new chapters being started and current chapters being completed. Debby has finally, fully moved on. I'll post a picture of the FULL pond off my porch on TT. Grateful it didn't come IN my porch ! Sadie has had lots of rinse offs this week as she is a mud magnet. She just crawls on her belly and rolls in the muddy puddles. It brings her such pleasure ! I have court on Wednesday and believe my third case will be closed. My fourth is nearing resolution and I'm just picking up my fifth... a real doozie. I'd love to get some possible TT gathering dates on my calendar! This tribe inspires my heart !

Weight 120.8. It's 6 am and in a little over 2 hours we leave for the next adventure. We meet DH's daughter for lunch, then stay in Saratoga Springs for the next 2 nights. We go to the racetrack tomorrow and hopefully I will come out ahead with my $2 bets (last year I lost about $8). This will be my fourth time going. Thursday we drive to Lake George to stay with friends from Florida. Friday we move on to Burlington VT to stay for a night. Saturday back to Massachusetts but staying in Central Mass after the family dinner (the engaged couple's families). Sunday is a Woosox baseball game with some of the group from dinner, then back home after the game.

I'm feeling exhausted already. Justice is going to his fun place again - one downside of DS leaving is there isn't anyone here for Justice to stay with. Potentially he can stay with DH's daughter and husband in the future as they have offered watch him now that their dog and Justice get along well, but it wasn't convenient to do so on this trip.

And my car is still at the dealer waiting for a replacement part that the rodents chewed up! They don't seem to care that I will have their loaner car for another week. I sure hope my car is ready when we get back.

Time to finish packing. Have a terrific Tuesday!

Greetings all

Sunny slow day here. Thankfully the air show is over and it's quiet. I guess the show was a first time event for the area and was really great including veterans tributes and simulated air strikes with fireworks which caused people to call the fire dept.

Meanwhile I went to the studio to pick up new things and dawdle about. Our industrious technicians are power washing the walks and places to prep for paint. Amazing how much clay is about. After that, I took stuff to the gallery. The whole town is packed with tourists.

Paula loved your Door county pix on TT. Looks like a great spot.

Liz you are indeed the energizer bunny if you came home from a trip and rearranged furniture. More power to you!

I am feeling kind of achey today and no clue why. I expected to be sore on Sunday after the Bataan Redwood march with our friends but amazingly was not. It tells me for the zillionth time that sitting around is what makes me sore; not moving.

Didn't have steak last night due to availability of restaurant leftovers. It gets cooked tonight or it becomes dog's delight. They are basking on the deck (the dogs, not steaks).

We enjoyed the Olympics closing ceremony though there is no amount of money you could pay me to do what Tom Cruise did. Yikes.

Diane S

Weight about the same. Not much on my docket today either! Balanced 3 different checkbooks! Weather is nice and sunny. Took the puppies for a short walk and now just bored. DH went golfing and DC 1 is over but napping in one of the guest rooms.

Looks like my PCP is agreeable to prescribing Zepbound for me. Now to see if we make it through the pre authorization process. Hopefully it won't be too difficult!

Hope you are all having great days!