It's been a busy week, and I welcome the opportunity to pause with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story to remember the best parts.
1. Return of the hummingbirds. We've had more than the usual trouble this year with ants and teeny flying bugs getting into the hummingbird feeder. Then they decompose, and the hummingbirds don't come around---or if they do, they hover a bit and fly away. As I once again emptied and scrubbed the feeder, I looked up how to make hummingbird food at home. Since I put the new stuff out, we've seen more hummingbirds this week than we have all summer. They must like it! My husband rigged something to keep ants out, so hopefully the feeder will stay usable for longer..
2. Kayaking. Jim, Jason, and Timothy went to a nearby lake to kayak for a bit. It was Timothy's first time, and it didn't take him long to get the gist of rowing.
3. Jason and Mittu's 14th anniversary. We watched Timothy so they could have a date. They brought dinner when they dropped Timothy off and brought me a Crumbl cookie afterward. My FaceBook memories have been filled with posts about "wedding week," so it's been fun to reminiscence.
4. Safety and electricity. We had some strong thunderstorms here one night, with a tornado touching down about 11 miles from us. Limbs are down and trees uprooted all over town. Thankfully, our area was fine. Jason helped a neighbor cut up a fallen limb that was blocking the road--but first they had to deal with a bowling-ball-sized active hornets' nest in the branches! Thankfully they were all safe.
Then we had a few more storms Wednesday night, though they weren't as severe. We did lose power then, but not for long.
5. Four-way FaceTime. We'll celebrate Jeremy's birthday when he is here next week. We usually ship the presents he opens here to him when he goes home. We sent some of the heavy or large presents to him early, before his trip here--we get free shipping from Amazon, so it didn't make sense to have them shipped free here and then have to pay a mint to ship them to him in RI. When he received our early presents, he set up a Face-Time call with all of us so we could see him open them. Thankfully, the connection worked for all of us. It was fun to have a little pre-visit visit. 
We're looking forward to Jeremy coming in this weekend. Jim will take most of the week off as well, so we're anticipating a lot of good family time. Meanwhile, there's much to do to prepare.
Have a good weekend!
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