The short week at work was compensated for on Friday. Monday, of course, was Labor Day so I was off, and we all went to Michigan to visit Pam and Marve. We were going to visit Becky's grave but never made it there. We did get to take them swimming at the community's pool, which they love. Stephanie was also there with Julia and Collin. Tuesday after I got out of work, Beth picked me up and we went back to the state campground to visit Jim and Rachel. They're staying up there all week. Everyone else was gone, and the park was a ghost town. We had dinner and tossed around the football and stuff until nearly bedtime. Wednesday was the return of Kids Klub at church, which I am sitting out this year, so I can work on the house undisturbed for a couple hours each Wednesday. I got a lot of work done in the garage; I'm planning on finishing the walls there and getting the pegboard up first so I can organize the tools and facilitate further work inside the house after it gets cold. The work week was uneventful until Friday, when the slide show for the presentation I and two others have been working on got back from review pretty much shredded. Not that it was bad, but our focus wasn't right for the audience. Too much detail for directors. So, we stayed late to work on it. Very late. By the time we had the thing ready for a last cut the next Monday morning it was 8pm. I missed the kids entirely, they were in bed when I got home. It was a pizza night for dinner. Saturday, we all went out to Mentone to look for Teel's Orchard because we thought it would be fun to take the kids apple picking. Unfortunately we couldn't because they don't let people pick in the orchard because of liability (darn lawyers), so we just got a bag or them from their shop. Bowling started up again this weekend too. We aren't bowling with Steve and Laura this year because one of their sons and his fiancée wanted to bowl but didn't have partners, so we're bowling with the Churchills. It was actually just a practice and not league, which is good because we all were awful.