In early August, we flew to Boston, and visited with Paul's family. We went to a nearby lake and swam, went to the Ecotarium museum, the Minuteman National Park, and the Freedom Trail in Boston. Paul and Catherine were wonderful hosts, and we enjoyed getting to know their daughters during the visit.

I had anticipated very hot, muggy days, like we had in New York, but the weather was very delightful. We got some rain on some of the days, but it didn't prevent our adventure.

On Sunday, we went to Church. I didn't know what city the chapel was in, and it was puzzling to hear, “Welcome to the Marlborough Ward,” because I'm used to Marlborough merely being a cigarette. During priesthood meeting they announced that the teacher's quorum was going canoing to some island and the priests quorum was holding fund raisers in order to do scuba diving in September. It was gratifying to hear of an active scout program for older scouts.

On Wednesday, Patrice and I flew to Chicago, and the children flew home. We saw all of Dad's siblings except Sis who lives in Florida, and several of the cousins. The family there is very interested in each other and supportive of each other. We had a good visit.

After we returned, we attended the Primary sacrament meeting program. The children sang with their hearts and spoke clearly. That has become one of my favorite meetings to attend.

Work continues at its relentless pace. But I love writing code and fixing bugs, so it's the place to be. I worked on the temporary table support, but then found that it needed to be extended to support multiple temporary tables open under one DB2 transaction.

In July I saw some solar window screens in the shed, and I ripped an old 2x4x12 and mounted them above the plants in the garden. That seemed to give new life to the garden. The sun is just too hot here. We now have some banana peppers just about ripe.

Today we celebrated Davy's birthday by going to Chinese restaurant for lunch. Daniel's family, Jared, and we went and had a nice lunch.