to: mom and dad

there's a new girl in town

meet lola

i don't get to take her home until wednesday but she's my new puppy! they think she's between 10-14 weeks old so we aren't sure how big she'll get but she's tiny right now!

We're done!

We're done! We finished the seventh book last night at 11pm. At the risk of being redundant and saying exactly what everyone else is saying. . .it was fantastic! Such a good series! I felt the same way when it ended that I did when we finished reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy -- sad that it was over but awed at what a great story it was.

"Read it . . . you'll love it!"

Sophie..

I had a wonderful time tonight at dinner with Jonathan, Ashely and Sophie. They asked about all of you. Sophie is such a happy little girl. She was singing and laughing her way through dinner.

Phil, Susan & Elizabeth

It was so nice to see Phil, Susan and Elizabeth when they came through C'ville on their way to the Eastern Shore. They arrived yesterday after supper, so we sat on the deck and had dessert and caught up. They left this morning after Dad's wonderful Belgium waffles.

Yum

We had a wonderful evening, thanks to Abby and her friend Doug who is one of the managers at Bonefish. First he treated us to a huge, wonderful plateful of mussels in a scrumptious sauce...then we ordered...Dad and I sharing the pistachio encrusted trout and Abby having the salmon topped with feta and spinach...all delicious....and when we asked for the check...the waitress said that it was all compliments of Doug. How nice was that!

Book Review

After viewing The Painted Veil twice and loving the movie, I decided to read the book. It was very easy reading and the movie followed the book closely, except for a few events. I actually much preferred the way the movie portrayed things and thus would not particularly recommend the book if you were as moved by the movie as I was. I am ready to watch it again!

Blueberries!

It's the start of blueberry season here in Pennsylvania! Jamie and I went to a no-spray blueberry farm about an hour and a half from State College on Sunday and picked 16 quarts to freeze for smoothies in the wintertime. If we had time, we'd probably go back for more. Wish you all were here to enjoy them with us!

happy

happy birthday john! hope it's a great day.

Fourth weekend booked!

Ouch!

Don't forget to pray for Lindsay
getting all of her wisdom teeth
out tomorrow......Thursday.

bree

this is the little one i'm trying to adopt.

scoot

i know this has been a long time coming but let me introduce you all to our lovely new scooter. we've really enjoyed taking long rides in the country on this thing. if you come to visit, we'll let you take it for a spin... promise

Jackson

Hannah Tell just sent me some new photos of Jackson in their new kitchen in Lawrence. Isn't he a cutie? Seems like they are all enjoying Lawrence a lot.

Three of Six

We've rented our house out for three of the six games! Hoping for one or two more.

we signed

we finally signed our record deal a few weeks ago. we probably won't come out with a new cd for about 8 or 10 months. it all takes a really long time. anyway, i wanted to let you guys know. the label is called Word Records which is a division of Warner Bros. pretty cool.

paul

Happy Anniversary Paul and Lindsay (a day late)!

Congratulations, Paul and Lindsay, on your first year!

the rabbits are taking over....

I went out to weed this morning b/c it's nice & cool out and found what i'm only guessing could be rabbits have devoured all our veggies. no tomato no zuchinni. anyone have a solution?

Book Review: Grace Eventually **

As some of you know, I've been reading Anne Lamott for years so I was excited to see her newest non-fiction work, GRACE EVENTUALLY available at the library. Thanks to many hours of waiting in lines in NYC, I plowed through it fairly quickly. If you've read her previous works, I'd rate this one not nearly as good and entertaining as Traveling Mercies but a whole lot better than Plan B. She's not as creative and I felt like this one was not as cohesive as her former work (as I was reading the acknowledgements at the end of the book, she thanks Salon Magazine for letting her use articles she had written for them as chapters in this book...it shows!) But the good news is that she's still sober, still crazy, and still trying honestly to figure everything out. I heard from a friend that she writes books as if everyone she tells stories about are already dead explaining the tell all direction her writing often takes. I woulnd't recommend this one really to a new anne lamott reader b/c it was boring for me who has read everything that happened in the last 20 years of her life but if you want to know the update....save it for a rainy day.

House for Rent

http://pennstate.craigslist.org/apa/368585959.html

Thought you guys might be interested in this. Here's the link to our ad to rent out our house for the penn state football games this fall. So far I've gotten five interested parties for the notre dame game, but nothing for any of the others. We're hoping to get at least four of the six games, (which will help while I'm going back to school).

Pete Pictures for Mom

Summer harvest

We are starting to get a lot of stuff from our garden. . . lettuce especially. We seem to have a plethora of that and herbs. Wish you all were here to help us eat it!

birthday presents galore

rachel, lynne, abbi and me at drinks before my birthday dinner
(everyone loved the dress and although you can't see it, i was wearing lindsay and paul's bracelet too!)

Earth to Hunter. . .or Beam Me Up, Scotty!

I get a kick out of this picture every time it comes up on my screensaver. Hope you are all doing well.

New Additions to Circleville Farm!

Jamie and I are excited to welcome some new additions to the area. . .

. . . born Monday morning, bringing our current chicken population to twelve.

And. . .

. . . hopefully joining us in a few weeks! Wahoo!

NYC: day three

i hope everyone had a great fouth of july....let us know what you guys did. we moved over to the olsen's this morning, went down to battery park for a concert, enjoyed a wonderful thai dinner in east village before heading over to view the fireworks on the east river.(we were more impressed with the crowd than the actual fireworks show) here is a view from the Foran's 28th story apartment

NYC: day two

Another great day in NYC. we started this morning down in lower manhattan and worked our way up through Chinatown, Little Italy and SoHo. We ate at the Indian Bread Co. (at liz's recommendation) which was wonderful. Then we hung out in Washington Square before heading up to Union Square. We're off to have a late dinner picnic in Central Park. Wish you all were here with us!

NYC: day one

we had a great day today. we arrived around 1pm. ventured to manhattan on the public buses and managed to find the foran's apt. grabbed a bite to eat and then spent the next several hours walking around central park. paul loved it! we want to rent bikes tomorrow and ride through the whole thing. Izzie from Grey's Anatomy was there filming a movie so we watched that for a while too. then we walked down 5th ave. to rockefellar center and then on to times square.