Summer Ends

This is my first attempt at blogging. I hope to create a page to keep family and friends up to date on our family. Since Cheryl and I are now well into the empty-nest phase of life, this should also help us to stay up to date as well.

This week is bitter-sweet. Alethea, Justin and Camdyn have been with us since Friday evening. We are all together for a few days, but Karisa leaves for Wheaton on Wednesday. We had a wonderful time Saturday afternoon on Lake Nantahala. Shirley and Ryan drove up from Atlanta and we spent the afternoon on a pontoon boat exploring the lake. Camdyn loves to swim. She started calling for the water as soon as we started and got more intense until we found a place. The event was colored by the condition of the boat we rented. It was old and it took us an hour to restart it after our swim. It sputtered off-and-on all the way back to the marina.