18 Jun '24 

Here we are in June, mid June. I basically lost May; I barely knew it was here, and it is already gone. Yeah, I'm still shocked when time marches on. Ethan came home for summer break, a while ago, and I am hard pressed to remember the particulars ..... did we pick him up from Spokane, did he arrive in Seattle..? And Keelie seemed to simply stop going in to St. George's. That was probably two weeks ago. Last week, Sarah and Ethan flew to South Carolina. Regan and Karl also flew to South Carolina, at the end of their college tours with Preston. Preston and Alexa flew back to HI at the end of the tours, which were USC, UCSB, Oregon (somewhere), UW, and WWU. Mom and Dad packed up their abode into a U-Haul, and Karl & Reg drove the U-Haul from South Carolina to Spokane. The drive took four days... me thinks. Meanwhile, Sarah, Ethan, Mom and Dad flew from Charlotte to GEG, where I picked them up. Mom and Dad stayed for two days with us. We had the shower installed, which took three days, and it was completed the day before Mom and Dad arrived. We had some panic here as we were attempting to make the basement palatable for Mom (& Dad). We then dropped Mom and Dad off at the Visitors condo at the Evergreen Fountain living facility. Karl and Reg spent the night here, at our house, then the next day, we unloaded the U-Haul at Evergreen, and spent two days unloading boxes. Yesterday, I ferried Dad and Mom to Dad's skin appointment, then Mom to Fred Meyer. The day before, Ethan went with Sarah to Bellingham to get Rileigh. The trek home for them was interesting as we are still ironing out the issues of driving the EV across the state. Now that I am putting this down, I should clarify -to myself- the timeline of all this. Maybe I'll do that on a future edit.... 

It was rather rainy today. Yesterday wasn't much different. The sun was out for Reg and Karl, yet the talk was how cool it was. So I guess my perception is that it has been less than summery type weather thus far, in this season that I have traditionally labelled: summer.