Instagram August

We started off the month at the beach and the boardwalk (Ha!  And you thought the beach posts were finished!)



It’s kind of cool when the colors in the pool match the colors in the sky…and not just boring, old blue.  Now that the sun has been going down a little earlier, we did quite a bit more night swimming in August than we did earlier in the summer.


We visited a family with the best dog in the world.

        Seriously?  I may dognap him.  They might want to lock him up at night.

We had the sinkhole in our front yard fixed and we weathered Hurricane Irene.


We discovered our new favorite place for ice cream!  (Those are called Stuffed Snowballs…very creamy soft-serve atop a snowcone!)

We did our first round of apple picking.  These are galas, which we used to make applesauce (you’ll see that one next week) and good old apple crisp, but the apple I really can’t wait for is the Crispin, due out on September 23.  I just read in the paper yesterday, though, that a lot of the Crispin crop was lost due to Hurricane Irene.  They are such a big heavy apple, I guess they’re easy to blow off a tree.
 
Apples + Irene= Bad Joke:  Why didn't the two worms go into Noah's ark in an apple? Because everyone had to go in pairs !  Sorry.

Then everyone headed back to school.  Here is my happy first grader eating lunch in the cafeteria for the first time!

Now August is over and September has begun.  The weather has been crisp and perfect, with temperatures in the eighties and very low humidity.  This week I actually wore my hair down (not in a ponytail) for the first time in months.  I am sorry to see summer end, but at least I’ve got those Crispins to look forward to! Maybe.

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