Surviving...

Summer

This is how we do it...

This past week the heat was almost UNBEARABLE...

Lukewarm pool water got us through...

We've also completed Week One 

with our sweet Japanese student, Ren

We're continually surprised to see what is so normal to us

through her eyes...

We're learning a lot about her

and a lot about us...

And it is good.

This weekend we played "tourist" in our own town 

we enjoyed seeing her delight over what is to us, almost invisible

like back roads...

and the Amish...

and farms...

and covered bridges...

and farm animals...

we discovered we could stay all day in our own town and spend

nothing but $1 on a water sold by Amish children and a 1/4 tank of gas...

and actually LIKE it...

Summer...

It suits us fine.

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
Ada Louise Huxtable