This week all the pics are in the Email.

Jul had a seminar in DC. She decided to leave a little early and pay us a visit. We watched the movie “Fall Guy” (recommended) and visited the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. The visitor center has a wealth of information about the area, but we focused on a mile and a half walk around one of the lakes. It was a beautiful day. One if the highlights was a beaver lodge. It’s a beautiful place to visit.

Memorial Day weekend is the Parkton Cup, hosted by Ed & Lynne. This year there were more people and more babies than ever. Mira and Maia did very well with the food. But they weren’t totally sold on the pirate theme.

Competition was as fierce as ever. The audience awaited the winner while enjoying quiet conversations. This year, Ed won the grand prize.

I had extremely good luck at Charlestown this week. Mom received her speech-to-text phone. I took it home to figure it out. It’s a well designed piece of equipment, but it needs access to the internet. At Charlestown, before you can add a device to the network, you have to register the device. While I was walking towards the car, I saws two guys approaching the building. The idea popped into my head that they looked like IT guys. So I asked. Indeed they were IT. I was standing there, holding the phone, in front of a couple of IT guys, so I asked them how to register the phone. Normally, IT guys won’t let this kind of information out. But good fortune shown on me. They told me exactly what to do. With a little more good luck, I will quickly get the new phone up and running when I visit Mom Tuesday morning.

As you can see, it was quite a busy week for us. I hope this finds everybody doing well.