Is summer over? People say Labor Day starts the fall season.

A year ago today, we were in line at the ferry dock so that we could board the Alaska Marine Highway for Washington state.  It was the end of 5 weeks in Alaska where we saw much, experienced much and also took a side trip back to Minnesota so that Terry could say good-bye to her mother.  We stepped on land again the 12th and still enjoyed another 3 weeks, including a stop in Jamestown for the guitar, before arriving home in early October.  Our last stop before St. Paul was a short visit to Minnesota State Park #72, yup we visited them all.
This summer has been so different it is difficult to describe.  Among the projects we have undertaken are:

1. plant and tend to the garden
2. take care of the weeds in the lawn
3. travel to ND and SD for family reunions
4. repair, patch, prime and paint the north bedroom
5. scrap, prime and paint the basement walls
6. finish a wall in the basement
7. making some future plans for home improvement--maybe
8. construct two radiator covers
9. finally getting the published copy of the book
10. refinish the table top in the kitchen
11. repaint the Nani room
12. remove the braided rug in the living room that had been there since 1979, it was in need of relocation!
13. move the braided rug from the den to the basement
14. work on many Christmas presents
15. get a start on putting thousands of pictures on the computer
16. taking care of 3/4 mile of movie film
17. making 3 batches of pickles
18. taking out the linoleum floor in the sun room
19. doing some landscaping on the west side of the house
20. caring for the flowers on the north side of the house
21. picking raspberries in the back yard
22. doing animal control in the back of the garage!
23. AND more I am sure

At this point we are  still working in the basement and need to repair and paint the upstairs sun room and hall.  Also the pictures, there are thousands that need to be scanned. 
So I say happy fall, it may be close to fun time on the tennis courts and bikes as well as settling in with a good book.  I must say Terry has, to some degree, kept up her reading but me--nothing.  Terry can read in bed forever but if I read in bed I fall asleep before page 10!
FP has gone the way of the eggs and sausage so it is time to paint.