Hello, once again.  Summer has officially ended and we find ourselves losing daylight at about a two minute a day clip.  It’s been a summer of non stop action.  I’ve helped many families breath cleaner air including my sister and her husband, who has very bad allergies.  This might be the best product I’ve ever endorsed. 

Shelley’s father has taken a sharp turn for the worse with his health.  Because of that we have had streams of company visiting.  On the one hand that is very fun to entertain guests while on the other, it’s sad because of the reason they are visiting.  He just had his 88th birthday two days ago.  After pondering what would be the best gift I could give him I landed on the one thing I knew he would enjoy and that is a beer from Canada.  I’m sure he won’t be able to have it, however, which is very sad.

Speaking of Shelley, she is doing great things in the online world.  Her gift basket company, Lambs and Ivy Gift Baskets, has seen a surge in sales and her online support group, The Elder Care Support Group, along with it’s supporting blog, takingcareofthefolks.com, is experiencing huge growth.  In August she ran a large telesummit with eight experts in the field of elder care.  It was quite an undertaking but it was a big success.  If you’re interested in any of the interviews just visit takingcareofthefolks.com.

In July Shelley and I spent a week in California volunteering at Camp ReCreation, a camp for adults with disabilities.  Shelley was one of the camp nurses and I helped serve over 4,500 meals for the week.  In my spare time I took over 1,200 pictures of the over 90 campers as they enjoyed projects, skits and field trips.  What a great, fulfilling week.

I’ve been playing piano in our the church band at Lake City Community Church a lot during the summer.  It is very fun.  In fact, tonight, I will be playing as well as taking pictures of a baptism.  Should be very fun, albeit, interesting.

My daughter just recently started her second year of college at Chapman University in Orange.  My other daughter is a senior at West Seattle High School.  Speaking of WSHS, I just attended my 30 year high school reunion there this past Saturday.  It was held at the Vashon Theatre on Vashon Island (go figure).  As I remarked in my post on March 13th (which is my Dads birthday) there would probably be more people than when I organized one 5 years ago and I was right.  Almost double the people showed up.  Visit my Facebook page to see some of the pictures.

Well, that’s it for now.  Should you be interested in finding out how you TOO can breath cleaner air that will give you better health and energy as well as more time (believe it or not), drop me a note at aphilip369@aol.com.