Pay no attention to my brown dead lawn. Though I thankfully avoided a lot of it while I was frolicking on the beaches and in the lush parks of the northwest, surprise, we've had weeks upon weeks of miserable dry hot weather. It might be a good idea to pave my yard and install a race track.

This is a photo of me enjoying the very end of my last day of summer break. And what a day it was. My good friend Terese even came over to do some gardening with me and then we built some row houses (love that Boston accent of hers) with my toy logs.

My alarm is set for 5:12am so I (yes, ME, I will be doing the cooking) can wake up and make scrambled eggs with spinach. And then we will set out to try to remember just how fun commuting is.