Well, as the leaves turn colors and begin to fall, I look around and think “where did the summer go?” It seems like one minute we were opening up the pool and the next thing I know, we were closing it for the winter…..I turned around and summer was GONE!!! I think that this was due in part to all of our “projects” that we seem to have done during this past summer….Not only did we do many around our own house, and still have a few to do, I helped out my friends in putting granite tiles down in her kitchen and tumbled slate as her backsplash. It turned out very pretty, then the girl went and sold her home….needless to say, I was not happy about her leaving….she moved almost an hour away and if feels like she has moved to another country. As for our house, we started out doing the work ourselves, putting travertine down in the masterbath, that was a job, laying 18 inch tiles is no easy task. They are HEAVY!!! I won’t even begin to go into the help that I got…Joe was great on the cutting with the wet saw, but when he was using a spoon to put grout in the grout lines, I don’t even have the time to discuss our conversation, just suffice it to say that I think my blood pressure may have shot up a bit….then we started on the grilling deck for all our grills and smokers, we did get that done by 4th of July and enjoyed it very much, had all the family over and it was great until it started storming, but fortunately we had the front porch turned into a sunroom and everyone converged there and the living room and so all was not lost. Then after that, we decided we would just hire someome to redo the guest bath and the kitchen….that was a little hectic, going from 2 bathrooms to one for a couple of weeks made for a challenging situation at best. I don’t know how families ever made it with one bathroom…. I guess you do what you gotta do….but all is done now, new bathroom completely updated with tumbled slate shower and slate floors, new granite counters for the vanity and new fixtures throughout. We painted the entire house again, and updated the kitchen, my favorite room now, with granite counters, glass backsplash and all new appliances….then we moved outside to do some more projects and finally got a huge, and I do mean huge, RV shed that stores the RV, boat and truck….it looks like a small fire department has taken up on the corner of our property….now we just have the privacy fence to finish over there to make it look a little better….there never seems to be a stopping place. But, somehow this last month found me and Joe, my brother and Rich all going over to take on the huge project of putting in new floors and painting for my Dad. We took a long weekend and all of us piled in and made huge progress on getting dad’s house back in order. To help him breath a little better, we ripped up all his living room carpet, and replaced it with wood flooring, which turned out really beautiful, we painted all the rooms and cleaned until it all sparkled. It made a tremendous difference. Now if we can just keep him on track and keep the progress going. I think if he gets his bathroom redone, he will be set for a little while. Then I looked up and all the leaves had started changing and realized that fall was here and I didn’t even have all my Halloween or fall stuff out…..no time to catch my breath and relax, its holiday time and time to start gift projects…..and I wonder where my time goes…..