Paul and I were up at the cabin over Labor Day. It was a very pleasant to be in Island Park. I had a very relaxing weekend. We left at about 4:30 on Friday afternoon from Salt Lake and it was after 10:00 when we arrived on Aspen Ridge. Paul had a horse ride in the Teton Wilderness area planned with Blake on Saturday and I was really happy to have a calm day with no great plans ahead of me. We did have an early morning on Saturday to get Paul off, meeting Blake at 8:00 a.m. My only agenda item for the weekend was the handwork on a T-shirt quilt that I was working on. I went on a walk in the morning and I had brought a book on CD that I started to listen to. My day went relaxingly and I made some progress on my book—I am listening to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead which is 27 CD’s so I was happy to get through seven of them on Saturday and on my quilt. The weather was lovely on Saturday. My walk was bright and warm, but it is really dry. There was a fire going near TwoTop and so there was a smoky haze throughout. We were planning on leaving the remaining two horses in Island Park for a couple more weeks, but the pond is getting lower and Paul worried that they might run out of water before we could get back. (We will be in SLC for the next two weekends because Philip and Camille and their little family will be leaving next week and the weekend of the 7-8th is their last weekend here. And the next weekend is a Back Country Horseman Event in Settlement Canyon near Tooele which we will be attending.) So anyway—we decided to take the horses home with us. Paul had a long day’s ride, (he thought they had covered more than 25 miles—and there was also 1 ½ hour travel time on both ends) but got home about 7:30p.m. I had brought some old James Bond movies starring Sean Connery and we watched the first one of the twenty odd James Bond cannon. The first in the series was Dr. No. Ursula Andres was the Bond girl. We had to admit that the pacing of movies made in the 60’s is very different than what is expected now. It seemed a little on the slow and dull side—but we sat through it anyway. On Sunday evening we watched Goldfinger and we liked that better. We are not the least bit committed to watching the entire collection, but it was fun to watch a couple of old movies and see the perceptions that prevailed in the time that they were filmed. I brought four with me, but we only managed the two and frankly I think that was enough. Paul and I had been joking about old James Bond movies and so it was another nice diversion from the normal. Paul and I both enjoyed sleeping in on Sunday morning. We didn't set an alarm and just stayed in bed and kept dozing off until well after 9:00 on Sunday morning. We both get up very early on work days and so it was very indulgent to sleep in so late. The temperature in the cabin was the perfect mix of fresh and cool and yet not chilly. Paul and I both slept so well, I came home feeling really refreshed. Also it was so nice that we didn't have to rush home on Sunday, but had another day to enjoy—the blessing of a long weekend. We took down the teepee while we were there. It is stowed away in the boxes. We were a little bit sad to discover that we had disrupted the storage area of one or more industrious squirrels. Between the teepee wall and the liner there were probably more than one hundred pinecones. I wondered what the poor squirrel (s) thought when they came back to their safe haven to discover that the secure hiding place that they had discovered was completely gone and their pile of pinecones was totally exposed. Paul comforted me by saying that they would just search and find a new secure hiding place. And they still have a few weeks of good weather before the cold weather comes. We had a few rain showers on Sunday afternoon and a few more on Monday, but it wasn't enough to really clear the air of the smoke from the fire. I walked on Monday morning and it didn't even smell like rain, but by the time we were packing up the car, it was sprinkling again. But it stopped by the time we left. We’re back in SLC now. Both back at work. Everything is settling in for the fall. Philip and Camille will leave on the 10th. We will miss them very much. It has been fun to have them a part of our regular lives. Peter starts working for Orem City on September 9th, next week. He is looking forward to that. K.C. is back from his trip to the far east and is back at school at MIT. Erika is in full swing with school again. And so our lives move forward as usual.