Summer is slipping away.  I get up and it is dark yet and the sun sets before 8 pm now.   We have had some cool nights but this weekend should hit back near 90 degrees again.  So we still get to enjoy good weather,  we are just being warned the season will be changing too soon!  We had a successful SOB picnic here last week. Around 50 people, everyone had fun, too much to eat and drink – hold it is there such a thing as too much to eat and drink?   Well they had fun.  Thanks for the board for helping out and the Enders for being here to help and Captain Noel for taking groups out for pontoon rides.

Then we had a Thursday to relax, and on Friday after work headed to Milwaukee.   Irish Fest weekend, and Chris circles it on our calendar.  We love the music and just being there.  More to eat and drink!   And saw lot’s of old friends.   We had a full Friday night, and thanks to the Ender’s hospitality we had a place to stay for the weekend.  Saturday we saw Mom, and got to spend about 10 hours  at Irishfest.    And on Sunday as usual we made it to Mass at Irish Fest.   The 2nd largest annual mass in North America.  It is always a wonderfully done Mass.  And afterward Irish Fest started up again!   Chris and I were going to get an early start back to Oshkosh, we went to get some lunch before leaving and as we got to order our food the skies let loose.   There is only a couple of feet overhang on the festival buildings and luckily Chris and I were under one.   And the open ground cleared quickly so no one else was heading our way!  So we ordered our food and ate with the other people huddled under the overhang.  It probably rained for an hour!   After which we headed for our car and the ride home!  A memorable end to the weekend.    My work is very busy, so I have no problem finding enough to do and putting some extra hours in,so that is taking most of my days.   We are still cleaning up from the picnic and have projects to catch up on, so little by little we chip away at them.

I do have some more pictures posted on the Album page.  Second week in Switzerland with the Cousins.  The pictures are great, so it must have been awe inspiring in person.  And obviously  they had fun!   Charles, Walter and family thanks again for taking such good care of the girls.  Remember On the Album page you will see this latest album at the top.   It shows you the thumbnails for the page. PicLens doesn’t work for me for some reason, but you can give it a try.   If  it does not work  you click on the first picture it will open up,  then you can use the arrows at the bottom of the picture to go through the pictures.   When done click on the picture.   Then remember to click on page 2,  or 3 4 or 5 below the pictures to see the next 20 pictures.

And sad news to end on.  We went to New Glarus a couple of weeks ago to see and old friend of Marie and spend a couple of days there.  We had a great time with Karl and Kay Gmur.  They gave up a lot of their time to spend with us and it was wonderful.   Karl passed away this last weekend.  Our sympathies to Kay and family,  he was a great guy.

Hiking the mountain!