Summer Is Ending....

Wow, I can't believe summer is coming to an end. The official end of summer here is Monday 1st September this year. Local attractions either close completely or significantly reduce their operation. We have a local water park in our new town, three golf courses, a beach, and a very nice town center, few of which we have taken advantage!

We did do our first garage sale earlier this year, and raised $400 ourselves and with friends over $1000! As you can see we had a lot of crap to sell, but people bought it, with some folks coming back several times over the two days! Click here for a few more pictures.

This past weekend it was the Taste Of Highland Park, where local restaurants bring out sample sizes of their product and over charge you for their promotional advertising. It was however an excellent day out, lots of good food and a nice walk to town. On the same day, they had the Port Clinton Square Art Festival, celebrating it's 25th Anniversary.

We ended up continuing our walk down to the Central Park Beach area, overlooking the lake and the bluff. It was a gorgeous day, and we stopped to have a little play on the see saw before heading back for some ice cream from Dairy Queen. Click on the picture to see some more pictures from August, including some of AJ in the smallest paddling pool ever!

Lately it seems like every free minute I have had has been consumed by yard work, decorating and organising; especially now as the MIL and SIL are coming out at the end of the month to help us celebrate AJ's 1st Birthday, I know, 1 year old already, where did it go?? We are also already planning our trip to the UK for Christmas and hopefully some skiing too, it's been 4 years since I strapped the planks on.

I have managed to keep playing golf every couple of weeks, and been to a few Cubs games. Lorraine has been tearing up the golf course the last few weeks in her golf league. She has turned in a score in the 40s, 4 times, at the nine hole par three they use.

Here are some older pictures from July too, that I recently added to if you want, click the picture to see the slide show.

One final sobering thought..... I purchased a snow blower this week.....

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