Well, our visit to Nantucket is almost over. We’ve had a wonderful time. The weather wasn’t perfect, but I was able to get a surprising amount of work done. Plus, plenty of beach time:

Yes, that’s a sandwich attached to my shoulder. I like to have food attached to me at the beach. Saves me all that pesky digging around in the cooler.
We took some family photos, but of course the kids would rather not be on their mother’s stupid blog, so here’s one of me and D.

I miss my animals though, terribly. Especially her – couldn’t we be sisters? I really think we look sort of alike:

And I really miss him:

Well, all these guys:

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! And, in honor of our wedding anniversary, coming next week, this wonderful poem I found today:
I Married You
by Linda Pastan
I married you
for all the wrong reasons,
charmed by your
dangerous family history,
by the innocent muscles, bulging
like hidden weapons
under your shirt,
by your naive ties, the colors
of painted scraps of sunset.
I was charmed too
by your assumptions
about me: my serenity—
that mirror waiting to be cracked,
my flashy acrobatics with knives
in the kitchen.
How wrong we both were
about each other,
and how happy we have been.