Home - Briefly

Gales camp on the lake.

Camp cabin

We had a wonderful and restful time at Gales. It had been 26 years since I had last been to the family camp. I was so pleased that it hadn't been changed much at all. Garry and I felt like WE were at camp albeit an adult one. No counselors blowing whistles at 6 AM! Peace and quiet and darkness at night! Wonderful. I don't know what it is but when Gale and I are together it is like we are indeed 5 years old again. Such laughter and carrying on and this time Garry got dragged into the middle of it all.

Gales' mother was there also. She looks great for 96!

We look GREAT for our age !!! (Which shall remain unspecified!)

I could live on that porch!

"Mom" Siegfried with her girls.



After we left gales we decided to push towards home. We had planned to do some sightseeing but after experiencing the prices in Canada the thought of having a few days at home sounded like a better idea. As it was also the beginning of Labor Day w/e we really pushed. We crossed the border for the 10th and last time at Thousand Islands. We did stop at their Observation Tower and I got some nice pictures.

Arrived home Friday afternoon and went over to Sarah's. We  hadn't turn on the A/C and the house was HOT and we didn't have any  food in the house so we are spending the night with them. Sarah took us to pick up the boys at their schools. Both of them came out of their classrooms and when they saw us they questioned "Nana??" It was as thought they were shocked that I was actually standing there after being away for so long. They both were tugging on me at once wanting to show me different things. I was exhausted when we finally got them into bed that night.

We are now back in the house. We have been away long enough that we can't remember som ethings like where is a certain light switch or the fact that we now have access to a dishwasher.  We are slowly doing much needed yard work. My gardens are a disaster and our lawn is nonexistence as there hasn't been any rain and the temps have been in the 90's - 100 this summer. We are cutting everything back and preparing for the winter.  I haven't even begun to clean the house yet.

We are leaving again for a month on the n15th of September. We still have a Pleasure-Way reunion to attend; a long visit with Michael, Karen and those grandsons; a Coast Guard Tug Reunion in Rockland, Me for Garry and a visit in bar Harbor with some friends. We are hoping to see a nice fall up in Maine. We should be back here again the iddle of October. The end of our trip in the camper. We hit 14,161 miles when we hit our driveway on Friday.