Goodbye to May

It's time to watch the end of another month of 2009 as it passes through that doorway to history. May has brought tumultuous times with my mother, exasperating times at work with new platform computers thrust upon us with no introduction or training, and the typical unsettled weather ranging from "should we build a fire in the wood stove?" to "is it time to put the a/c unit in the bedroom window?" We've enjoyed track and field, a smallish bounty from the asparagus beds, and the prodigious blooms of our lilac bushes. I spent time choosing, editing, and publishing pictures from my trip to France and the celebration of my sister in law's birthday with a limo ride for 9 of us and luncheon at a great restaurant named for a Robert Frost poem, "Fire and Ice." Black flies came in droves and left after a well-timed frost. Mosquitoes were nipped by the frost, too, so they're just making their comeback now. This seems to be the year for spiders. Somehow one whose body is the size of a quarter has found his way into the downstairs bathroom, so I'm careful to shake out towels when I'm in there.

Tomorrow begins the last mad rush toward graduation and the end of the school year. I'm hoping for a modicum of sanity on the journey.

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