When we were at Barker Lighthouse camp with all of our extended family, we went over to the lighthouse in the Golden Hill campground, which is called Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, because it is 30 miles east of the mouth of the Niagara River. Anyway, that inspired Krista and I to try to visit each of the nine lighthouses on Lake Ontario that are in New York state. We’ve been to a few of them already, but we want to go and “officially” document our visit to each one.
Our first step in accomplishing this was to go to the Oak Orchard Lighthouse in Kent, NY.
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| In the lighthouse |
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| Oak Orchard Lighthouse Selfie! |
The big event
this month was the birth of our lucky 13th grandchild, Truman Ezekiel Sommer,
to my daughter, Ella, and her husband, Cody. Truman joined his three
sisters, Hazel, Ivy, and Josie on August 3, and weighed in at 9lb 2 oz.
They are all loving him, and we are too! Krista and I got to visit in the
hospital, and we’ve enjoyed holding him several times since then.
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| In the hospital with Truman |
One of our
favorite things to do in the summer is to be at the shore of Lake Ontario when
the sun sets. Krista, Jem, and I did so on Monday night this week, and
then Krista and I went back again the next night after celebrating her birthday
at a dinner out.
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| Lake Ontario Sunset |
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| The beauty of our Father's Creation never stops amazing me |
I’ll end with
this: Last night I made a fool of myself. That in itself isn’t too
unusual, but our church had a talent night, and so I did so in front of a
rather large audience. Some of you have seen my (what’s a good word to
describe it? Silly? Weird? Bizarre?) rendition of “Theme and
Variations on Little Cabin.” Well, I pulled that out of mothballs and did
it again last night. I had fun, and it seemed to be well received.
I guess that’s
all for this month, so we’ll visit again in September.
