Be Careful What You Wish For

Summer is here! Boy, is summer here! This is the 3rd or 4th day of 90 degree weather and I think there are a couple more days of this to come. The one thing about New England I will never get used to is how it can go from cold and rainy to hot and humid in 24 hours. Thank goodness the living room and dining room have AC. We put the upstairs AC unit into Josh's room as we have scaffolding outside our window and the unit won't fit. He may wake up with both his grandparents on the bed with him if this heat doesn't break soon.

I have found a way to get to sleep. I take a cold shower, bring an over sized t-shirt into the cold water, wring it out, put it on and go to bed wet. The fans provide a cool breeze and I can sleep. Of course I have to lay out a towel on top of the covers so the bed stays dry. It must keep me cool most of the night as I woke up and had Yaar, on her back, up against my damp shirt taking advantage of the coolness! Oh well, how much longer can this last?

Saturday, we joined Mom, Auntie, William and Wanda at the Knights of Columbus Lobster and Clam bake. It's really quite the feed. Chowder, corn on the cob, steamers, baked potato and twin lobsters. For those of us not into lobster there is Twin roasted half chickens! Yes, that's a whole chicken! No one goes away hungry from this event. There are the usual raffles: the 50/50, several chances on the big lottery, and they always have two 10# lobsters. Tom buys a buck's worth of tickets on each thing and we consider it our contribution to the club. I am looking at our tickets and my mouth drops open after the first number is called. I can't talk! I wave the ticket in the air and brother-in-law, William, grabs it and bellows out"We got a winna over hea". We won the biggest lobster I have ever seen! Tom had them boil him on the spot. I think he was afraid I would slip Louie out the back door and put him back in the ocean if he brought him home alive! This is a picture of Louie with Josh. Remember, Josh is 6'4" and over 200 pounds! That's one BIG creature.

Tom had to use a hammer and pliers to get the meat out. And despite what you may have heard, the meat was sweet and tender! Dinner Sunday night was the guys' favorite, Lobster and Mac & Cheese. There were four huge sandwiches for the two of them on Monday and still more in the fridge. Louie was very, very, very appreciated.

Still waiting on the contractor. First it was rainy and cold, now it's too hot to work. I do believe we will see this project completed some day.

That's about all the news for right now. Here are some shots of the dogs. Here they are at the cook out. Here's Yaar asleep in the back seat of the car using a sleeping Josh for a pillow!