we have visitors!

our friends from the old co-op are visiting. maureen, ricky, and their son gabriel. we're having a wonderful time! the arrived yesterday afternoon, and we just relaxed around the house and had some BBQ. today we took them down to the harbor, had lunch there, then went swimming at mom and dads, and finished the day with some lobster. i'm not sure what's up for tomorrow. maybe a hike or a trip to ocean point?

maggie loves lobster by the way! she ate an entire lobster for dinner! i think whole "dipping in melted butter" thing is a big part of it for her. or maybe it's just that lobster is so "delicious-y!"

this is going to be a short entry, i'm sorry. it's late and i need to get to bed for our big day tomorrow. maybe we'll do a boat ride, we didn't get around to it today. i did get to take the boat out with dad and get a feel for it and practice docking, which went pretty well, so maybe i'll take it out tomorrow. none of the kids are interested in going on of course, so it'll probably be an adults only cruise.

oh, and i know that haven't updated on my garden in forever, you must all be wondering what's going on with it (ha!). well, it's not all that impressive. it looks pretty good and green, i'm just not getting much in the way of vegetable production. a few green beans and peas, a zucchini here and there, some really, really small cucumbers, and some fennel that's pretty much all bolted. there are green tomatoes that should be ripening up one of these days, and the brussels sprouts are slowly getting bigger, so i still have some hope, but i'm certainly not overflowing with home-grown goodness. i have a feeling that if nick had picked up that compost for me like i'd asked, i'd have some more to write about. sigh, maybe the year after next (since i'll be taking next summer off since we'll be gone).