Scattered Thoughts . . .

L ukey and Kenzie accompanied us to the International Antique and Classic Boat Show on Lake Champlain in Burlington last weekend.  The weather was great although maybe a bit too hot for a September afternoon.  We walked quite a few miles as we drooled over many antique boats.   After perusing all the beautiful boats all along the waterfront, we brought the grandkids out to dinner for their first barbeque meal at a restaurant that specializes in barbeque.  Barbeque is hard to find up here in Vermont so our choice of restaurants was limited.  Sheila and I had been here once before so we knew what dishes to avoid at this particular restaurant.  We chose to order a bunch of different dishes and share them family-style.  Overall, it was a great meal and we left completely full! We then made our way back home to sit around a warm fire in the backyard and have some S'mores for dessert.  It was a long, busy but very good day! Here are a few of the many photos from our day... Trying to find

This past Saturday, Sheila and I attended the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival and Antique Boat Show at the Burlington waterfront. The weather was beautiful and it was a really nice day, for the most part.   Adam had planned to meet us at the boathouse for the show but then was invited to visit a friend's house on Lake Champlain that same day. This friend of Adam's is an old student of mine and I knew that he and Adam are rarely in the same place at the same time. They both have been traveling the world extensively and on completely different schedules and completely different routes.  Anyway, their paths finally happened to cross, serendipitously, so Adam had the opportunity to spend the day and evening with this old friend and there was no way Sheila nor I would ever even think about requesting he change those plans to spend more time with us. It wouldn't be fair to Adam nor would it have been fair to his friend, Jonathan. If I would have requested anything, it wo