Missed and Missing

We will miss this summer as it fades into Autumn. It been a year of many events, good and bad, and I wish we had the opportunity to alter a few. Tim is missing his old hip as well as a few inches of arteries in his chest. It’s great to see him on the mend in ability and attitude. His winter goals include dogsled races where he will be pulling the dogs. We so dearly miss Pap Pap, but know his inspiration and strength lives on and gets us thru the day to day challenges. Just when we thought the storm clouds were passing , we received the news on MJ, which as it turns out provided another opportunity for her to demonstrate how an amazing attitude and optimism can slay any dragons. We look so forward to seeing her very soon, and are excited that she will be joining the Asper clan for the celebration of Kelly’s wedding this weekend in Erie PA.

We miss the wonderful visit we had from Sam and Zoe, but sadly we did need to return them as their Mom and Dad missed them tons. Speaking of tons, as a result of the Sam and Zoe visit we seem to be missing 12 boxes of Mac & Cheese, 11 Titleist Pro V’s, 10 quarts of Ice Cream, 9 Callaway X18 Irons, 8 cases of soft drinks, and our Pittsburgh BB marksman shot the partridge out of the pear tree.

Against the advice of Uncle Joe, the kids took a boat ride with Uncle Tim, who encourage them to participate in some questionable activities. Zoe relied on Sam to hang onto her by her life vest. Unfortunaltely it was a little too big!

When Zoe “surfaced” she promised to be more careful and asked cousin Catherine to watch out for her going forward, so they committed to milder activities such as a gentle game of jetski rodeo. If Mom only knew!

As of yesterday we are also missing Catherine, who felt the need to be off to Smith to keep up with the Jones’.

Ta Ta for now, its time to prepare for a weekend that we wouldn’t miss for anything. Love yunz, see you soon!