  August 3: Rich and Frances come up for a visit. Paisley asserts her right to sit on HER sofa. | 
  Time for conversation.... | 
  August 4: ....and eating at the Coop | 
  ...where seafood is always supplemented by the wharf! | 
  August 6: Ron meets an old friend and I photograph an "old friend". | 
  Bath is as pretty as ever! | 
  This is a favorite park. | 
  It's cool enough to be on the deck today! | 
  August 7: It's time to play mini-golf... | 
  And we're about as good at it as a year ago.... | 
  Sometimes the ball leaves the course and one has to retrieve it! | 
  But if you wait long enough a handsome guy comes along to help!  Maybe he'll drop that ice cream on his feet! | 
  And some girls don't NEED/ WANT help! | 
  Someone has a favorite friend! | 
  Teddy is getting old and has many mends! | 
  Aug. 9: Jeanne's birthday. | 
  Aug. 10: We meet Mary and Marty at... | 
  Congdon's in Wells for.... | 
  ...brunch. | 
  It's a silly... | 
  ..crew! | 
  Pesky waits for her food. | 
  Pemaquid Poet's meet at the Willing Worker's Hall in Bristol. | 
  Singing is on the agenda... | 
  ...all the way from Arizona! | 
  With feeling! | 
  At the Hariseeket there's a garden. Fall fare! | 
   A little shopper at Sherman's in... | 
  ....Boothbay....ain't she cute? !! | 
  Aug. 15: Lorelei in sepia! | 
  Aug. 19: Paisley goes to the vet for shots. | 
  Aug. 20: It's a beautiful day for the playground! | 
  What fun! | 
  We eat our lunch in the shade of a slide. | 
  Then Lorelei tries out the monkey bars. | 
  It's fun and it's .... | 
  ....hard work! Note the tongue...a sure sign! | 
  Climb! | 
  And never stop moving! | 
  Til Mom gets home and it's time to snuggle. | 
  It's a nice cozy lap! | 
  With time to read! | 
  Experimenting w/ B&W...silly! | 
  Aug. 25; We drive to NH in the pouring rain....to visit old haunts.. | 
  ...Rye Beach through a rain-smeared window... | 
  ....w/ waves raging! | 
  Then find the Bedford Village Inn which wasn't... | 
  ....there til 1986! Thank God we hadn't ,..,.. | 
  ....missed this one all those years ago! | 
  It's very nice and looks much older than it's years! | 
  ....an old estate converted into an Inn and | 
  It's an interesting place! Reminds me of... | 
  ...the Hariseeket and Nittany Lion Inn. | 
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  restaurant....the grounds.... | 
  ...of the old farm.... | 
  ....are quite lovely! | 
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  Then it's on to McKelvie School where... | 
  ....we first met.....the nurse's office... | 
  ,....the cafeteria...we remember it so well! | 
  Walked these halls so many times! | 
  Seems like we always run into a Pittsburgh connection. | 
  Outside my first classroom and Ron's Guidance office. | 
  Saying, "Good-bye," at the office. | 
  "Bye!" | 
  At the scene of the crime! | 
  Aug. 26: The sun sets over Boothbay Harbor. | 
  A grocerystore bouquet. | 
  Aug. 27: It's a lovely day in the neighborhood! | 
  Yup!! | 
  Friends!! | 
  Kissin' Buds! | 
  August 27: We check out the lobbies at the Wharf... | 
  w/ the Muellers to compare them w/ Novie Lobbies. | 
  B'bay wins! They like them!! | 
  It's getting dark, but... | 
  ...this little camera can handle it....sort of! | 
  Joe and Ron | 
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  Dancers on the dock. | 
   Then it's time to pick up the lobbies...they're DONE! | 
  Country western music drowns out conversation. | 
  Even Jeanne came and enjoyed her clams!! | 
  Time to go. | 
  Aug. 28: It's breakfast at Brown's!! | 
  Marta and Lorelei check out .... | 
  ....the menu. | 
  Everyone eats well... | 
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   ...too well! | 
  It's quiet enough to talk and be heard! | 
  A waitress documents the event! | 
  End of the month: It's HOT out there, but we go to boat shop anyway. | 
  This one looks like the choice...a Boston Whaler with a Suzuki motor. | 
  Parked in boothbay Harbor. | 
  Ron checks it out. |