one week left

Part of me wanted the summer to go by quickly so I would be starting my Russia trip sooner, but I find it a little hard to believe that the Fourth of July is over two weeks in the past.  I enjoyed the holiday with my family, but it went by so fast and all that I have now are memories and some nice photos.  On a more positive note, even though the days of the calendar are flying by faster than I might prefer, the weather shows no sign of leaving the dog days of summer behind.  The almost non stop rain of June has given way to day after day of sticky heat.  Now if only I could find more time to spend in the pool.

Yesterday I did some serious cleaning of the office and I impressed myself by how nice it looks now.  There are no piles of books and or paperwork on the floor.  Plus even better, there is free space on my desk.  I seldom use my desk for writing, but for weeks if that was something that I wanted to do it would have been near impossible to do.  Papers were spilling over in any free space available, but that too has been corrected.  I can not take full credit for this transformation though.  My wife had been the one to prompt to do this cleaning to make the place look presentable for a guest.  As to how long the place stays in this freshly organized condition remains to be seen.