If I'm going to summarize the summer of 2009 with one word, it will be RAIN! I know that sounds depressing but throughout the month of July we had two days when it didn't rain ... maybe half a day more ... I'm not very fond of extreme heat, I do admit that, but this actually felt ridiculous!!
This entry will be a brief summary of what's been going on this summer, as I will make separate entries for most of it.
I didn't go up to the summerhouse until midsummer, things were quite chaotic at home, and I wasn't feeling very well. It felt really nice seeing my families again, but of course I felt sorry for my oldest sister, M, who broke her arm about 10 days before I came ... she had a huge cast, reaching from her shoulder to her finger joints ... poor thing! We celebrated midsummer together, and then I got a few days for myself before it was time for LONDON with Annika!
Naturally it was a great trip, but still with mixed feelings - I have a loooooong London entry prepared, which will appear here in a while! :)
As soon as we got back from London my Dad and his family went to Riga on vacation, and after that, my oldest sister had her 5th birthday! Summer sure passes quickly at times.
After that things started going more slowly, I think. We didn't do much except the usual stuff, we did some paint jobs, my Dad and his family redecorated one of their bathrooms - one day we took a joy ride to an aqueduct near the summerhouse, the kids love to watch the boats, and that was a really nice outing! :)
Toward the end of the summer, we prepared to redecorate the summerhouse bathroom, we have had some minor incidents there, so we needed to redo all of it - and had to prepare as much as possible, which meant tearing down the wallpaper and carpet, deal with some minor plumming to get the toilet and stuff out - so that was quite intense!!
We went together here, drove during the night - which was not so pleasant actually - and mostly took it easy! We went swimming with the girls in the ocean, which they loved, did some little outings, and they left on Saturday morning!
I have had a difficult time trying to get back to my own life since they left, due to some personal issues (which I'd rather not discuss here, but which may come up in my personal blog) - but I'm hoping to start feeling better soon!
Please keep an eye out for further entries!
8 comments:
yeah we've had boring weather too..someone at work said this had been the "worst" summer in 50 years...not sure if I believe it, but we did get a lot of rainy days here too...
How is M doing? Did she get rid of the cast yet??
I really like your photos btw! I seem to totally have neglected my poor camera lately, don't think I've used it since my Stockholm trip.....guess the weather hasn't been too inspiring, but I really want to get to use it some more before summer is officially over....
M's doing really well, she got rid of the cast about 2½ weeks ago, and so far everything seems fine! :) She's a bit too lively though, it was quite hard to get her to stay reasonably still while having the cast (and just after they removed it) ...
Happy to hear you like the photos! I have TONS of them, I guess I'll have to try to share at least some of them here ... :) I know what you mean though, some times my camera gets a holiday as well! :) I hope you can get yours out soon though, would love to see some pics! :)
happy to hear M is doing so much better! :-)
Looking forward to seeing more of your photos!
Will try to take some new ones soon too ;-)
Sounds great! I'm trying to organize ALL my digital photos (from Christmas 2004) AND those I've gotten from my Dad's family ... so right now I'm in a photo mess ... hopefully some nice photos will be popping up on the blog eventually ...:)
Good luck with that! During spring I was able to organize all my photos (from summer 2006-january 2009)....but now I've realized I have quite a lot of new ones to deal with since Janary lol
lol - it never ends, does it!
I'm afraid I've actually lost some photos for good, which feels quite disturbing! I can't find any back up cds with those photos, and they're not on any memory card I've found ... not good! I have some more checking to do, otherwise I hope I have sent the photos to my Dad and his family, maybe I can retrieve them that way ... *fingers crossed*
aw...how annoying!! I hope you are somehow able to find them!!
Thanks - I hope so too!
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