This week I finally got around to having a plumber come in and fix the toilet downstairs. Been flushing slowly, if at all, for some time now. It just took augering it out, so something was stuck in there, who knows what.....Since July 4 fell on a Wednesday this year, I had a midweek break (and no softball game), which we took advantage of with another beach day. Beth and I had been telling each other that we just wanted to go back to the beach ever since we went to Holland last week, so we decided to take advantage of the holiday and hit the beach again. It was another perfect day for it. This time we found some close parking in South Haven so we stayed there. The lake, once again, was perfect; it was a hot and sunny day; it wasn’t even too crowded (until later in the day). We all had the sunscreen on, we all stayed under the canopy when we weren’t in the lake, but we still all got burned to some extent. Me on my arms and shoulders and chest and back. We were at the beach pretty much all day, until around dinnertime, then we went to Kalamazoo for supper (Main St. Pub) and on to visit with Beth and Marve at her house, where they and Ric & Nickie and the kids had been hanging out all day (she has a pool). Our kids were back in the pool for a while there, too. We headed home after a while and then I went back to work the next morning, which wasn’t easy.....Friday evening Beth and the kids and I spent getting the house ready for a wedding shower for Stephen Prater and his fiancée Sarah, since Mary Jane has no room to host one at her place. We hosted his graduation party a few years back, too. It wasn’t as well attended as I thought it would be, so I hope they at least got cards in the mail or something.....Today, we didn’t do much but I am itching like crazy from the sunburn (peeling already). I took Alex driving for a while out in the country. He needs to learn how to keep the car in the center of the lane, how to stop at a stop sign instead of way in front of it, and to check for oncoming traffic before pulling out from a stop. But otherwise he did fine, and he’ll do fine once he gets used to it all.