It has been a very busy day in spite of the weather being a bit iffy. I rushed around this morning putting stuff together to take back to the Cabot Historical Society - a winter's worth of work, so to speak. I met Bonnie Dannenberg, our hard working president of the historical society, and together we did some organizing in preparation for our first official open date, July 4th. It's always fun to be there on the Fourth because there are so many people who show up that we don't usually see any other time.

When I came home, I buzzed down to see how things had progressed on our new boathouse. It's looking good! We had taken pictures last night on our way to Bill and Monika's for dinner - the top picture shows what it looked like then. Tonight when I went there I was surprised to find it actually had some walls up. The boys are going to do some of the finish work themselves - the roof and the siding, once it is all framed - but it seems to me that it's moving along very well. At least part of Larry's (Larry Rossi) crew was putting in a new septic system for our neighbor, Henretta Splain today, so I guess Larry was busy, too. We're pleased with the progress on our boathouse.

We went to meet Monika's mother, Floriana, last night. What a pleasure it was to get to know her. She's as charming and full of joy as her daughter Monika and granddaughter, Jo-Ann. And you can see beauty runs in the family. When we were taking pictures, Monika insisted we should take a picture of her "baby bump" - needless to say, she expects to go to the hospital any day! Her mom is an experienced mid-wife, having delivered babies for women in Namibia, many times, but when she went with Monika last week and saw an ultra-sound image of the baby, she was amazed. She had never seen anything like that before. I was as amazed as she was when I saw the pictures. Our little granddaughter takes a pretty nice picture, like her mom, sister and Grandma Floriana. That's Floriana above.

Although Floriana doesn't understand or speak English, with Monika translating, we all did very well getting to know one another. We found out she has a wonderful sense of humor and we laughed a lot during the evening as we exchanged family stories. We found out Bill has already introduced Floriana to the "Three Stooges" and she has apparently become a fan, which will impress the other two Dimick "boys" no end. Jo-Ann was an immediate fan when she arrived a little over a year ago.

They will pick Jo-Ann up from camp tomorrow, and if the weather is nice, and Monika doesn't go into labor, they will all be here at Joe's Pond for the fireworks on Saturday night. We'll see how that goes!