See the full gallery on Posterous Kevin’s brother Chris had his annual Labor Day party and we had a blast! The weather held, the supply of beer more than held out, the youngsters commanded the pool, we saw Uncle Tom once more before he headed to Myrtle Beach, and Kelly reprised his role as bartender,…

Exhibit A in we’re getting old is when kids I taught in Sunday school get married—like Shannon Elrod, to her great partner Dan Dingman. And to add insult to (not-really) injury, I saw another student from those good old days, the former Katie Feras, with her beautiful, 7-week-old daughter Lila (and dutiful husband Jared), at…

See the full gallery on Posterous We got off easy—kept power throughout the storm, which dropped a hellacious amount of water but never really blew up into a really vicious hurricane (2nd photo is our Sunday paper, which arrived by 10 am). Virginia’s cousin Mary is still without power in Baltimore on Friday, six days…

First signs of …. fall?

See the full gallery on Posterous Virginia, Kelly and his friend Mike went to NJ this week to see Virgninia’s friend Tara and her daughter Gianna (she’s the one in the middle), and to get a final summer visit to the beach. Virginia says: It was so great to reminisce with Tara who I’ve known…

Not our video, but this is about 5 miles away.   For us, we woke up to see the alarm clock still keeping time (electricity—yes!) and a lot of water moving around the house, but not getting IN the house. The rain was pretty much over in the morniong and we’re getting some light showers…

See the full gallery on Posterous We had tickets to this afternoon’s Phillies game, with Hurricane Irene chugging through the Carolinas. Unfortunately, the rain started by 12, which caught the forecasters by surprise. We milled around the park for about 40 minutes before the game was called. Photo is of Kelly and his friend Mike.…

See the full gallery on Posterous Funny the things that stick with us. From our trip to Maine (back a week now), Virginia says she keeps thinking of the arctic bog we walked around at the West Quoddy Lighthouse (the East Quoddy lighthouse is in Canada, at the top of Campobello Island). Here are photos from…