Johnson Family

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.

All preperations are underway at The Johnson Family homestead for camping on Lake Pemaquid next week. There are tents and totes and bags and baskets piled everywhere with the wide assortment of camping gear and other equipage and sundries that are needed to live for 6 nights in a tent. It’s difficult to move around our little reisdence with so much stuff out of storage and in various stages of inspection.

This is our third year doing this. Deb’s sister and her family and one of my brothers and his family will all be camping at Lake Pemaquid next week. A total of 13 of us. Plus my sister-in-law’s sister and their familys total 20 or so and are camping as well. With so many cousins it’s a great deal of fun for Erica. For me it’s rarely a vacation of relaxation but is usually enjoyable in any case.

The campground does have wifi. So I’ll check in from time to time.

We start camping on July 12 and then leave to go visit family in Connecticut on the 19th and returning to work on July 21.

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