It’s been an unusual summer here in Central Ohio, because it hasn’t been very hot. I am not complaining about this, mind you, just noting that it’s been rather cool (70s and low 80s) and….well, enjoyable. We could use some rain. Clouds billow up and then fizzle before we get any of the rain the weather folk are saying we’ll get. But since it' hasn’t been too hot, the lawns look OK. I haven’t driven out by the fields yet to see how the crops are doing. (Where I live used to be a corn/soybean field.)

This month has been a little weird, in that I haven’t done a lot, but I feel like I have. My body has been sort of vassilating between being cooperative and energetic, a nd being a pain in the butt. So Friday I said, well, screw it—and stayed up until almost 3 AM reading An Echo In The Bone and doing cross word puzzles and taking a bath at midnight. Because, why not?

Slept better than I had in a long time.

That’s one of the benefits of adulthood—doing things like that. You can stay up on Friday night as long as you want, because no one will tell you to go to bed. I remember when I was in high school I used to love to stay up late in the summer. I didn’t have a TV in my bedroom but I turned the radio on to the local ABC station and listened to Rescue 911 or syndicated Seinfeld. (I really miss falling asleep to music or the radio. And I’d stay up until 4 or 5 AM and just read or write or putter around my room. I’ve always been much more of a night owl than an early bird (which is why I’m writing this as 12:12 AM. :-P)

I’m also writing just to check in and say hi! :)

Patty turns one on Wednesday and I cannot believe it. This little sprite has given so much joy to so many people over the last 12 months and I cannot wait to get to meet her. I want to smother her with kisses and tickles and stories. Is it weird that I’ve been thinking of songs I want to sing her? :) I do. I don’t have any nieces or nephews, so I’m turning all my pent-up auntie urges onto Patty and her siblings.

That’s really the highlight of my summer right now—getting to meet Patty. July is a tangle of doctor appointments and one really long day at OSUMC for the annual clinic testing extravaganza, but at least things are open now so I can go to Barnes and Noble and read and have a London Fog latte, and go to the local yarn store and get some good yarn, and/or go to the French cafe for a wonderful lunch. There are things to look forward to even in the insane all day jaunt that is annual testing.

(Speaking of knitting, I owe you a long update, but I have a CASHMERE BLEND yarn skein now and it is going to make the most delicious project. Stay tuned.)

But right now it’s almost Patty time and I am super excited about that. And of course I’ll tell you all about it!