We have something going every weekend. Yesterday was a first for us. Deb and three of her co-workers raced at the 2009 US National Toboggan Championship, at the Camden Snow Bowl, in Camden, Maine. The following is a shot video I took of their run down the toboggan chute.
You can see some other pictures at my Flickr page.
It was a lot of fun and we are already thinking about next year.
This is the second day of Deb’s week long trip to Cleveland, Ohio for business. So far Erica and I are surviving well. We’ve eaten some fruits and vegitables in addition to meats and breads. We are clean and healthy. So far so good!
Deb was very nervous about travaling alone. But she got through it and hopefully is more conifdent about the trip back. We will be meeting her at the airport late Friday night.
So far Erica seems to be handling things well. This is the first time she has been away from one of us for five days. She’s been on sleepovers with her cousins and was without Deb and I for up to two nights previously. And Deb and I have been apart as much as two nights since the second year we have been together. But not since I went to Texas for a week in 2002 have we been apart for this long.
Maybe it’s not a big deal. But it seems like a long time!
We miss you “mommy”!
It’s been a really busy summer around the Johnson camp. The week we spent camping in July was perhaps the best weather of the summer so far. It’s pretty much rained 90% of the time since we got back from Connecticut. But despite the weather we have still be going pretty hard.
If you visit my Flickr page, you can see some of the pictures and video taken from the week camping and from Gabi’s birthday in Connecticut. I have a few public pictures there. Most are limited to friends and family only. Add me as a contact, I’ll approve you and you can see more pictures if you are interested.
Some of the highlights from our week at Lake Pemaquid Campground were the 61 pounds of lobster we had on Wednesday. The great weather. Karaoke night with Erica and her cousins singing “Best of Both Worlds”.
We then zipped off to Gabi’s birthday party. And we returned to Maine absolutely exhausted. Frankly, I’ve not recovered since.
A week later we spent a lovely day at Pemaquid Lighthouse.
The training-wheels are off Erica’s bicycle and she is doing well with that. I really didn’t expect to have to do that until next summer. But she was popping wheelies in the driveway and that seemed like a sign that we needed to increase the challenge for her.
I’m drowning at work with all that summer in a public schools has to offer. But school will start weather I am ready or not. There is just too much to do and not enough people to do it.
Deb is also feeling the weight of work these dys too. He company is changing the backend software that runs everything and she is intimately involved with that. Looks like long hours are ahead for her.
The upcoming weekend is the only free weekend we have this month. Then you can find me at the Highland Games on Aug. 16 and Deb and Erica are going to a family birthday party wthout me.
