Congratulations to I on her a.c. aquisitions. Two units after none at all. Amazing. Having a birthday is a good thing. Especially when you are living in an apartment in the city. Yeah for birthdays and gifts and good friends and family looking after you and more gifts and blessed cool air. Ahhhh.

So not only are you now a sock knitter. And an mp3 player (love that pun). But you are a techno phone geek. Thank goodness we were not Skyping when you got the calls. I wish I had a photo of you with a phone in each ear. Hey, have you heard of conference calls? Been around for a while now. You could talk to I and E and H all at the same time. And probably some other letters of the alphabet. So are they jointly HIE, HEI, EHI, IHE? And where do you put the L?LIEH, HILE, HELI, Acronyms are not my strong suit.

The Renaisance Festival is in full swing. I will try to get some shots. But please explain to me why somewhat normal folk choose August to dress in woolen clothes, live in tents in the open without any trees to shade them, use outhouses, cook over open fires. AUGUST in Western PA is not nice. It is hot (97° = 36.1C) and humid (81%) and grey and ugly. If you made me wear wool in this humidity and temperature I would show you how to return to England. Forcefully!

When I take photos, I will be sitting in my air conditioned auto.