Tracy Lee's blog

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I have been traveling so much this summer that I am afraid I have forgotten what it feels like to just be home.

Yesterday was spent just being home after being in Rhode Island 11 days ago and leaving the kids there only to have to pick them up last Saturday on the way to Brion's Family Bi-Annual Reunion.

Last Saturday I drove about 600 miles picking up the kids, driving to New York and driving back home. Sunday was a crash-at-home day spent with Keith and Jacob and joined by Laura for dinner. On Monday, we left again for Maine.

Today we drop Ian off at Boy Scout camp.

Tomorrow it is NYC.

Crazy

One of the things I have been enjoying about the ipernity experiment is that I am finding it easy to reconnect to some of the people that I met when I was first on Flickr that somehow I had lost touch with as the Flickrverse got bigger and bigger. This is a nice sideline. Now, if they would just enable groups.

What could be better than 10 beautiful days spent in one of New England's finest places? We got back late Saturday night from 10 days on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. What a gorgeous place! We were given the opportunity to stay at a house owned by a friend of ours. They usually rent it out, but we were able to rent it last week. The house was AMAZING! 5 bedrooms (two of which are master bedroom suites with bathrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, living room, dining room, large eat-in kitchen, entertainment room, huge deck off the eating area of the kitchen, roof deck with views of the Rhode Island Sound, the Elizabeth Islands and New Bedford, MA in the distance.

Totally gorgeous!

Just for fun.

Flume

We drove up to Franconia the other day. It was a beautiful day when we left Southern New Hampshire. But in NH, that doesn't mean anything when you live in this state! We drove up as I was hoping to go to the Bethlehem Flower Farm, best laid plans of mothers and others. I never made it.

We ended up pulling off at The Flume, one of my favourite places in NH. The skies had clouded on our trip up, but the rain had held off. We stopped into the main entrance building, hit the bathrooms, bought sweatshirts for my kids not too prepared friends, bought our tickets and headed out the door, past the sign that reads, "No Rainchecks, No Refunds" and the heavens opened and the rains poured down.

We stopped and stared at it for a few moments, trying to will the rains away, but it was not working. So back to the shops to purchase rain ponchos and out we went. Now one thing you have to know about the Flume, there has never been a time that I have been there where it wasn't damp. This time was just a tad more damp than usual.

We had a great time anyway and after a trip around Franconia, we were treated to the third rainbow I had sen in a week and a beautiful sunset. Not a bad way to end the day.

 

Last Sunday was Father's Day and like every Sunday we get visited by my son and his son, Jacob. Jacob is an amazing little guy. He makes my heart sing. He was born with Spina Bifida yet that has never stopped him. He has a strong willed spirit which has helped him to learn to do things we take for granted. I learn so much from him. He is also quite a talker! We went to dinner at a restaurant and got the chef to come out not only to talk with him, but he gave him a cap like they all wear in back in the kitchen. I don't know anyone who doesn't love this kid.

I find myself here after some of my friends have left Flickr all together and have begun to call this new place home. It feels very much like home here, but I am still finding out where all the light switches are. I think there are a lot of cool features here, like blogging, that are sadly missing in Flickr. Will I keep up two homes? Hard to say. Only time will tell I guess.