There was cake...

Mint chocolate chip ice cream with whipped cream frosting, picnic style, because it was decided ice cream cake tastes better flopped on the floor. There were giant water guns, squawkings over new video games and a new soccer ball, as well as a couple of science experiment books and 3,4, and 5 of the Fablehaven novels.
There has been a handful of blackberries harvested and we are waiting for tomatoes to finish ripening.
Mostly we look at the horizon, look at the gray brown that blankets much of the sky and wonder if the fire is out yet.