All changed, smiling, telling me to go get my swimming things on. Then it's into the car and off we go. Just about to pull out the drive and you say "...o, silly, the other way." "But that's a dead end." I tell you, but you just look at me. Ok, your the boss, off we go. 5 minutes later the road runs out. "Ok," I say, "Where too now." "Straight on." you say. So off we go. Just a dirt track, but then widening out into a large flat area, ahead of us the sea. I pull up at the end of a beach, to the. Last week, temperatures hovered in the nineties during the day and dropped only to the lower seventies at night. Minnesota can be like that, nearly as bipolar as the mountains of Colorado.“Hey, Rob, any idea where the canning pot is?” Lorette calls from the other end of the garden, where she is crouched on the ground picking herbs.“Uh, last time I saw it was a couple months ago in the garage,” I call back.Ben and Elise came up to me, lugging buckets of tomatoes. “Where do you want these?”“Over. “Hmmm suppose you,re right and I did agree to this One Time!” “Just as long as Damian accepts it!” I sighed. “He s young, he,ll survive!” Sarah laughed and I joined her laughter. We were still smiling and chuckling when Damian returned with a tray of drinks and wanted to know what we were laughing at. “We we’re discussing the bikini on that bug redhead with the skinny guy and how it shows off her big titties too much!” I lied. “Yes I think everyone has noticed!” He smiled and glanced lovingly. It was to be a short vacation for her and as usual business for him. Gabe had decided to ride in. As he rode in, he didn’t know any of these plans of course. He saw Mary, on the porch, and as usual wished after taking to the husband he said something to Mary also. There wasn’t going to be any “quality time” for the next four week. However, that was okay. He’d find someone else he hoped to fill that time up. “Now, our daughter, Maxine” said Mary’s husband “will be coming by of course. She’ll be.