Return to NJ.

8-22-11 SHORT HILLS: The trip to NJ yesterday was uneventful except for a few rainy spells, one was quite hard and heavy. Our cars spend the summer in VT living with us on a dirt road. Cars don’t get washed because the first time out of the driveway, the car looks just as it did before the washing. Back in NJ we live on pavement, of course, but another trip to VT is always imminent so there’s no point to washing other than a hosing in the driveway. Anyway, that rain storm on the trip left our cars cleaner than any other time this summer.

Here, the yard is soggy in spots, and the sprinkler system is now off for a few weeks. Almost everything in the yard looks good except one of the five new cherry trees. There is a healthy crop of weeds and vines so I won’t be idle.

We came down early because the boys from California are arriving for a long week. We will probably take them back to VT.

In bloom: foxglove, roses, hydrangea, rose-of-sharon.