Last Days of Summer

It's beginning to look a lot like school time. This week has been orientation for the incoming seminarians, campus renovation and reinvigoration for the returning seminarians; the kids are starting into an easy-going school week at home. Before we know it, we will be cruising through the fall semester.

So, we have been trying to do all those last-week-of-summer kinds of "chores". We have been fishing off and on throughout the summer, mostly trying to explore the local ponds to which we have access, but as it turns out, one of the new seminarians is really into fly fishing, and he was really excited about taking the kids out for a taste of a different kind of fishing. They all fell in love with the cool river flowing across their feet as they fished, as well as the more up-close-and-personal experience of fishing when you can see the fish and get to try to tempt them to your line. As it turns out, the Lackawanna River, only twenty minutes away from the house, is a Class A trophy trout river! So, we will be out there again sooner than later.

And when the days were hot, we would play some game or another in the house. For a week or two, Settlers of Catan became the non-stop request. We played as a family, yes, but then the next day, we would find them in the room, enjoying a three-person game of Settlers without us.

We hope you all have enjoyed your summers and are looking forward to a new school year.