From skiing to lounging round in the sun

Since we got back from Florida we seem to have all the weather that it's possible to get.

First we had a sunny weekend where we explored Kettle Cove, and spent a fair amount of time just recovering from being on holiday.




Then we had an incredibly rainy and windy week where trees fell down all around us, including one round the corner on Hillside, bringing down live cables galore.



The rain in Maine turned out to be snow in the mountains, so then I got to spend a Sunday with Hannah at Sunday River, skiing in 14 inches of fresh snow. Hannah went from snowplough turns to skiing parallel in six hours. I realised that 168cm long skis are too long for me.



Then this weekend it's 50F, all the snow has melted, and we've been back on the beach. Yesterday we took the children to Winslow Park to ride their bikes, explore the rocks and play in the park. Today we explored the ruins at Fort William then ate at El Rayo Taquiero (mmmm fish taco). We've put the net back up around the trampoline, and we're even thinking about gardening.

Other memorable parts of the last few weeks (according to my Facebook status updates - does anyone else use Facebook instead of a diary?):

Mark looked gorgeous in a blue silk bridesmaid's dress, and said "Daddy you wettened me."

We had Mary, Philip, Jack and Sam over for dinner - and Hannah and Jack are obviously really quite keen on each other.

There was a burglary in the bank next to Ellie's school, resulting in the school being locked down for the afternoon.

The girls are thoroughly enjoying gymnastics on Wednesdays after school, and we're all enjoying going out for dinner at Uno afterwards, especially when they bring out the cocktails.

After all the trees came down they decided to close school for the day. School had power. Everyone (except a few people on Cousins Island) could get to it. But they closed it anyway. Meanwhile the flooding was so bad the Presumpscot River flooded right over the trail next to my office - but everyone got to work anyway, even if they had to try several routes to get round the floods.

I worked out how to watch TV on the computer while lying in the bath.