Summer Might Really Be Here

Record rain! This is what we had for the entire month of June AND the first half of July! We have not done a thing to the house as our contractor is still not in good enough health to be climbing the scaffolding on the side of the buildiing. As he is not finished, we have not started on the yard.
We had a lady come out and look over the yard and she is going to give us an estimate on the redo. I have a feeling we will have to sell our grandson,Josh,to get the cash for the project.

July 8th through 12th Boston hosted the Tall Ships from all over the world. Here is a link to the website showing the ships that were here. http://www.sailboston.com/confirmed_ships.html

This is a picture of the Belle Poule out of France. We didn't have many come close by the house this year and I was not able to take pictures myself. The ones I could see were beautiful even if they were way out there. I can only imagine the beauty of the commings and goings back in the day!

Tom and I have been busy with the annual Regatta to benefit Make A Wish which our club sponsors each year. This is the 15th year and we hope to make the $32,000 as we did last year. With all the tightening of the budgets, we will consider it a success if we get close.

I am here in the Pilot House (the bar) as we just finished a meeting. I have to wait for Tom to pick me up so I thought this would be a good time to work on the blog. Today is another one of the very wet days we are calling summer. I just snapped this photo of our small boat deck in the rain.
It is low tide and as you can see there are not many boats here. I really hope the weather turns soon. I really want good skies for the races. We have races on Saturday and Sunday,August 1st & 2nd, a raffle and silent auction and a dinner on Saturday night. Tom has been busy selling tickets and collecting donations. I am not good at either of those so I made some jewelry for the auction and am on the administration side of the event, keeping track of all the tickets sold, tee-shirts sold and auction items.

We have very good items this year: A super sports package with 2 tickets to the Sox, the Bruins, the Celtics AND the Patriots!; 2 airline tickets to anywhere in the continental US; 500 gallons of gas and lots of other goodies.

Tom was in Mexico City last week and this just came across the wires about him:
"Tom Stundza, executive editor of Purchasing magazine, gave a keynote speech on the outlook for energy and metals commodities at the 7th International Congress on the Automotive Industry in Mexico City on July 14. Stundza’s presentation was covered by the Financial Times, the Mexico City newspapers and television news. Enrique Beltran, the conference coordinator for the sponsoring organization, Industria Nacional de Autopartes, e-mails that Stundza is “famous and popular in Mexico.” All this praise and they didn't even send him home with a bottle of good Tequila! He did, however, receive a travel razor that he can charge on his computer so he can shave his cheeks. Yes, he still has his beard. Doesn't every bearded man love getting a razor?

I got side-tracked and didn't get this posted fast enough for himself. So here is the creation as it stands now and I will pick up part two in a couple of days.

Bye for now