Happy Labor Day Weekend to those of you in the United States. I hope you are finding time to relax and enjoy being with fun people - whether family or friends.

Here in NW Illinois the temps are down, but it's cloudy. Wherever you are, I hope the weather's perfect for whatever you have planned.

We've no big plans for the weekend, but I'm hoping to get to the marina later this weekend -- even if all we do is sit on the deck and watch people and boats.

Take care!

Too hot be be outside here, so I'm writing and editing. :-)

Busy here! People are out and about....shopping and enjoying.

HOT here, too! Mid-to-upper 90s. But Autumn is coming!!

Well it "hotted up" into the mid 90s here today, and the sun was out. We went out for lunch to one of our favorite restaurants, which overlooks a golf course, and the place was packed.

Then we went for a drive to the marina, and people watched. There were tones of folks there, too. The most fun group was a man and woman accompanied by two little girls in 2 piece swim suits and flip flops. Not sure if they were going to take out a pontoon boat or not, but they were unloading two kayaks. One was small, and the little girls proudly each carried an oar. The other one was more traditional sized. I could see if it was a "two man" boat or not.

Anyway, I heard the man explaining that he had a tether rope, which he would tie to the girl's boat, so that if they got too tired of paddling, he could tow them.

I heard the woman ask how he go into kayaking, and he said he started doing it with "meet up groups," then got more into it.

As a result of the commentary, I deduced that they man and woman were dating -- not married. Not sure whose the girls were, but I'm guessing the woman's.

We got too hot to stick around to see them launch, but it ought to have been a fun afternoon on the water for them all...

At the golf course, we also saw plenty of Dads with sons in tow -- one whose son appeared to be no more than 5. He would hold the flag for his Dad, while Dad putted.

Reminded us of all the fun Galena weekends we had when our kids were small. Back then, we had a second home in Galena, and only came up for the weekends...

Di, your "autumn is coming" comment reminds me of the "Game of Thrones" books. There they always said, "Winter is coming."

Autumn has and will be my favorite Season. Of course in NM our Autumn is probably like a "summer" to most of you!

Mornings cool,afternoons hot, evenings cool.

And since we do outdoor retail, we LOVE this time of year!

It sounds great, Di. I wish we could figure out the cool evening part! It is HOT here: we're going for 105 today, it was like this all weekend -- even hotter -- and it cools down to about 80 at night.

BUT, by the end of the week we should cool down to the 90's. I'll take what I can get....I would love a real fall: temps no higher than 65-70 and colder nights. A girl can dream.

At least we've been out of the 100s for a while here, but still not really cool. Here it is September, and we're still hitting high 90s almost every day.

I'm sweating and it's almost 8:30 pm. GEESH!