July 17 through 29: We lose track of the days ......

Well, It's been an interesting couple of weeks since we last blogged. Sister Susan arrived for a visit which was waaaaay fun. She arrived at Midway on July 19^th and found our hot weather quite cool. In fact, she had to borrow jeans and a sweater and flannel pants to keep warm. At night she slept under the down comforter. I dunno, maybe we keep our air conditioner set too low? But the weather took a cool turn and we were able to turn off the A/C altogether and open the windows for a few days. It was really nice weather. We vegged out and watched movies, shopped, ate gourmet food, ate non-gourmet food, ate non-food, had dinner at Kim and Joel's, picked up Eric in Chicago and went to a Japanese garden in Rockford (see Kim and Joel's photos at http://www.technicallyevolved.com/galleries/thumbnails.php?album=17 ), barbequed (using the word as a verb, in the traditional Yankee way) in our back yard, went to the Art Institute and Millennium Park in Chicago, and generally had a great time. I hope Susan did, too, although we may have worn her out with all the long distance car and bus trips. We hated to see her go home. I also did not mention the fact that SHE HELPED us with our BOAT! After the epoxy arrived ... but let me go back to where we were when I last blogged ..... Our end pour resembled a Jackson Pollack painting, due to the melting of the modeling clay.