Summer vacation

So, Kate was on summer camp countdown and now I'm on summer vacation countdown, too. Next week we hit the open road for Maine with Miss Murray in tow plus Kate and her friend Lile. I'm already stressing that we will arrive too late to do the shopping that I love at Whole Foods and I'll have to do it on line. But this pleasantly panicy feeling is just part of the vacation experience. MMurray is going to the groomer to be cleaner and even more beautiful, if possible and we've having a micro chip put in her neck although there seems to me to very little evidence that she would go walk about by herself. Better safe than sorry because a lost dog would be an ugly moment for me.

Packing lists for essentials, clothes packing lists and I am in heaven planning menus and thinking about food...It's just a different kind of cooking that you have to do when you come home from work, tearing off your business clothes and attacking the kitchen in the hope that you can get dinner on the table in 30 minutes while everybody stands around and watches you. Then I have to gather my books and make sure that I have enough of them. I always like to have a selection that includes Mystery stories, some classic that I haven't but should read, a new author and other stuff. i kind of envy Arnie with his Kindle but I'm not sure that I really want a kindle. I do but I don't.

I'm taking tomorrow off and will just loll about. I hope it will be wonderful weather and we can go to Governor's Island but if not I could finally tackle the over crowding in our storage locker which might make it easier for Alice to really vaccum our bedroom.