November 10, 2014

• Finally Back

  I was reading my last post, and it has been a very long time since I've been here.  So let's catch up.

  For starters, here's a picture I took at the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge, last week.  It's about twenty five minutes from where my daughters practice for the regional youth choir, so if I don't dawdle, I can get there, poke around for a half hour or so and get back just in time for them to walk out of their hour and a half practice. The bridges in the background are the suspension spans between Annapolis and Kent Island, and the towers to the right are near the Naval Academy.  I didn't get the file to upload at full resolution. Honestly, I can't remember how, but that's a bald eagle on the  post between the two sections of reeds, and there are geese landing for the evening as well. I was aiming to get the geese landing, but I didn't even know the bald eagle was there, 'til I downloaded the files to my computer. We hadn't had many geese 'til this past week, and now there are more every day. I hope not, but that's normally a harbinger of hard weather coming soon.

  

  So for those of you who remember that we were getting qualified because my nephew had been removed from his mother,  the home study went well, but at the last minute, they gave my sister in law a reprieve and let her have my nephew back.  They gave her joint custody with my mother in law, which may as well be full custody because they live about an hour apart.  I'm still a bit angry, knowing she put him at risk so many times, but maybe she'll beat the odds and straighten up.  It's been several months and she appears to be holding down a job.

  Earlier this summer, I traded my motorcycle for a sailboat. I finally got my boat. All summer, the kids and I worked filling pinholes and restoring the hull to prepare for paint, but the summer ran out before I had time to get all the paint on, so barring a few nice Indian summer days, it looks like it won't be launched 'til spring. I will, though be posting pictures from the summer.  I was very proud, every person at the boat yard has remarked that they have never seen a group of kids come out and work hour after hour without complaining, throughout a summer, like my kids did.

  I'm sure there's a whole lot more, but I'll leave it at this for now.  Leave me a link to your best post from the summer and I'll use that as a starting point for catching up.  I missed you all, and I'm excited to be back.

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