Every year in the first week of class in grade school we wrote the requisite report on summer. It's too soon to call Summer 2011 over by a long shot, but here's a preview edition of
"How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Roger and Candi Merrill."
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| Roger walked Sophie every day on the Greenough Park loop trail. |
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| We spent Memorial Day beside Lake Coeur d'Alene. |
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| We nurtured ourselves by nurturing our garden. |
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| We supported our friend and neighbor, Dave Strohmaier, in his run for Congress. |
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| The 4th of July in Garnet Ghost Town with Taylor. |
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| The Pow Wow in Arlee. | | | | |
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What the photos don't say is that we cleaned the garage and mowed the lawn. We visited with friends and family. We barbequed. We laughed. We rested and recuperated after a long, challenging winter. Candi went back to her graduate studies. Roger healed. Our life had a few limitations, but barely enough to slow us down.
At 8 months post-transplant, life was good and very good.
