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The lifeguard stands are empty and sadly the carefree days of summer break are all but gone. The cool nights of September are here. Back to school shopping is being done, a task the kids groan about and yet there is a little excitement evident on their faces when we hit the stores as well. The fall schedules are in order and it's time to get down to business. By the end of this week my house will be very quiet between 7AM and 3:30PM. I will miss them being home.

Russell will be a Senior this year. Jon a freshman. Big years for both. This will be a year full of new things, changes, and challenges as they both face opposite ends of the high school spectrum.

They are growing up so fast it's taken me by surprise. My boys are becoming fine young men right before my eyes and I am very proud of them.

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This was shot about 1 hour before the previous photo just as the fog was starting to roll in. The boat off in the distance almost looked like it was just suspended there.

I am back from visiting colleges with Russell. It was long and stressful. I have come to the conclusion that all the info sessions and tours are from the same script with the exception of West Point.

This trip we saw Skidmore in Saratoga Springs New York and Ithaca in Ithaca New York. Russell liked Skidmore although it is even a bit small for his liking with only about 2300 students. He is looking for colleges that are small but with between 4000 and 6000 students. There was a lot that he liked but it sounded a little discouraging since they have an acceptance rate of less than 10% and this year they expect the highest ever number of kids applying to colleges in this country ever! Figures! They also have only 2 scholarships that they offer and it's the most expensive school he's visited thus far.

He was less enthusiastic about Ithaca unless he is definitely going as a music major but as of this moment he is still undecided and Ithaca didn't impress him as much as the others in the sciences which is an area of interest to him. However he did like the idea of possibly combining music with business, so it's still a possibility and there are more possibilities for scholarships. I personally didn't think the campus was all that nice compared to the others we've seen thus far. Russell also wasn't to thrilled with the campus and location. I will say that the music program does sound good and we liked the music school facilities very much.

We still have a handful of schools yet to visit and investigate so we will be busy with this for some time. It is so very stressful! I am tired from all the driving walking and just plain overwhelmed with information overload. I need a good night's sleep in my own bed I'm exhausted!

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Well I am working on building a new and improved web-site. The problem is I am a computer-phobic-techno-boob, and I know precious little about such things, well at least HTML, web-sites, FTP servers, and blah, blah, blah anyway. But...I am determined, if nothing else, to conquer this new frontier. I know most of you are probably thinking; "Wow what a dinosaur! Must be stuck in the 19th century, or living under a rock, or something."

My methods for managing my site now are unconventional to say the least, but hey, they work well enough for me, and the bottom line is I can do it...sort of. Without Rob here to help me, I have to slog through and do things trial and error. Russ and Jon "act" as if they know nothing about it, but they are wise to me and don't want to end up as my personal IT guys like Rob was, so they are playing dumb with me I suspect.

On an up note, I actually talked to Rob yesterday on the phone. He got a local phone number through AIM and I can call him if he's on line for free. He cannot call out but if he's on line anyone can call him. He sounded good, but they had a power failure on base and the lights and air conditioning went out making it pretty brutal. His laptop battery was dying and died during our conversation so it was cut short...oh well, I'll take what I can get.

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Thanks all for the wonderful "Blogday" wishes on my last post. I'm so glad you are all out there and visit so often.

After the last shot which definitely portrayed Winter, I decide to go to the archives and find something totally opposite to suit my mood. This shot is from last August when we all went to LBI (Long Beach Island) in NJ for a day together as a family while our son Rob was home on leave. I did crop this photo. There was a bit too much going on to the right of the frame when I looked at it, and I preferred to have just the two kids in the frame.

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