At home in CT

It has been a little different being back in CT since June. It took us a while to get reconnected and energized to do certain work oriented tasks. The sense is sort of like when you come home from vacation of two or three weeks only multiplied by 6 or 7 times. And I was left with a question of, What am I supposed to do. I closed down the business for the year, so there was no work to do or anything related to the building business remaining on the plate. There were and are many items to do around our house but that somehow did not seem like much fun however necessary. There were certainly people to catch up with so we began our reentry by checking in and visiting with each of our kids and there loved ones. We then began contacting our friends here and letting them know we were back in town and wanted to get in touch and visit them as well. Slowly others have learned that we are back and we have been immersing ourselves into the relationships that we sort of put on hold for the extent of our visit. We have not yet been able to contact everyone or visit with everyone but we intend to for sure.
As a result of our contacting folks and some hard organizational work, we were afforded a very great get together opportunity last night. We attended a really comfortable summer outdoor picnic type party back in Middletown. One of our friends put it together for all of us to be together but specifically so that we, having returned to Ct for a short while, could spend some time with the friends we left behind and haven't see since December.
Thanks Sogul and Paul. This was a great treat and just as splendid a way to spend a summer evening as any one could have come up with.
We caught up with friends, had really great food that each group brought to share and talked about new things going on as well as recently passed items of interest, like the North Pole trip for Daisy Mayhem as well as catching up on some of the continuing life circumstances of the various families attending.
Jasper left in the middle of the evening to go to a special friends house (that has a horse farm and lots of riding farm equipment) he comes home from these visits full of ideas of how he wants us to be living and what animals and equipment he wants to own. He had a blast!
The night ended with Ed catching fire flies and showing them to all the kids (and Sogul) and a cool summer evening ride pick up Jasper in Durham and then on to our temporary home in New Haven.
What a great evening! Thanks to everybody for being there and sharing this time with us and making it work in your schedules.