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Here’s reader number one beside an uprooted tree from a camping trip this summer. The tree had grown on top of the large rock Number One is standing on and when the flood came and the winds blew it fell down. Or something like that. The root ball looks pretty cool on its side.

Took the family to the Mercer Museum again tonight – it’s the third or fourth time I’ve been there. It was free Tuesday, so it didn’t even cost us anything. Of course, now that I’m a museum member there, it’s always free for me for a year. We stepped inside the Spruance Library inside the museum, and it’s pretty cool. They’ve got a lot of really old Bucks County history. I’m planning to find some time to go research what was on our property before it was a house. I know there was a sheep farm immediately beforehand, but I wonder what came before that.

Reader number three and Melissa are leaving in just two days. Their visit has been much too short!

Here’s the last in my “Essence of Summertime” series. This one is a little more standard than the others. Like the campfire picture, it was taken at Worlds End State Park on a beautiful, warm summer day. We were on top of the mountain about to see a pigeon racing demonstration and I thought the view of the valley was pretty. Turns out I was right.

We went out and did some Christmas shopping this evening. The crowds were certainly manageable where we were, if not nonexistant. Not a problem as far as I’m concerned. The weather is wintry, there’s a thick layer of snow on the ground, the roads are mostly clear, and everything is right with the world. Merry Christmas.

How’s my reader doing today?

I was looking back at some photos from Summer 2005, and I think I boiled the essence of the summer down to four pictures. Here’s the first one. We were at Worlds End State Park, the place was beautiful, the weather was warm, we had a great time, and it was a good fire that night.

Back to reality. Last night’s snowstorm pretty much fizzled out on us. There was probably a little less than an inch on the driveway at Swampy Bottom this morning, versus the six or so we were expecting. There were a lot of disappointed kids around here this morning who found out school wasn’t being cancelled. Fortunately for them, there’s another chance this week – we’re expecting another snowstorm on Thursday night/Friday morning.

I have to say, though, that it was an absolutely beautiful day. After last night’s dusting on top of the weekend’s few inches, the sun came out this morning and turned everything brilliant white and clean-looking. On top of that, the streets all melted. Sweet. Why do I like the snow so much before Christmas but only tolerate it afterwards?

I have a great idea for this website – I want to write a Java script that will list all my readers’ first names in the rightmost column of the page. My user (or each user, eventually) would have his or her name in the column for a week or a month or a day or some reasonable amount of time. It might make it look like somebody actually reads the page! I wonder how hard it would be to create.

Summertime pictures two through four tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday.