Reunions...

Summers are filled with reunions and this one has been no different. (We're already making plans for next summer!)

The first photo shows cousins Cate and Katie on Sunday, and the group photos is of the CHS Class of 1978, 30th reunion. I'm proud to say that as one of the shortest classmates, I'm still in the front row.

There's been slow knitting progress and I'll take pictures soon.

I'm currently reading Jeff Alt's, A Walk for Sunshine, about his journey on the Appalachian Trail. We enjoy hiking segments of the trail in Shenandoah National Park, and live vicariously through writers such as Alt and Bryson. recently read Priest by Ken Bruen, set in Galway. Bruen's mystery is a bit rough, but it was nice to be back in Galway. Other recent reads: Monster of Florence (that deserves its own blog entry!), Cape Wind, and Donna Leon's Fatal Remedies, and Barbara Delinsky's, The Secret Between Us.

"Hell Week" begins as we enter the last week of summer -- the week with erratic schedules, no camps, many forms, and a long to-do list!

Ski, Knit, Read.....Eat, Pray, Love?

The girls had a long weekend and it was filled with activities. Tubing at Liberty, Futsol in Alexandria, Field Hockey in Rockville, and Skiing at Bryce.

My 30th High School Reunion is coming up and I'm having fun trying to locate folks. It was great to find Gary Umholtz -- because he has an easy name to Google!

The knitting projects haven't changed. I'm not sure if the red vest will be the right size, but I'm going to knit a couple more inches before making the final decision. Right now, the red scarf is the most satisfying because there's no fit issue, and it seems I will have just the right amount of yarn. It's a great stitch pattern and the yarn is Classic Elite's Wool Bam Boo. It's a perfect red, a Talbots blue-red.

Current reads have included Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (I really wanted to know more about her first husband! Where is his blog?) and Adriana Trigiani's Queen of the Big Time (I cried buckets at the end). I'm now reading a book of Katie's: The Diary of Melanie Martin or how I survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Such fun--and child-like irreverence!