Happy Flag Day on Sunday! I would have loved to have taken the family down to Ft McHenry in the evening for all the Star Spangled Festivities. They fly the big US flag over the fort(Oh say can you see?), have the navy band playing and shoot off fireworks over the harbor along with the fire boats shooting water up in the air.  It is also one big picnic. But it was raining off and on all day, and Scott was busy studying for finals.  Allison didn't want to stay up late cause she had to leave early for girl scout camp in the morning, and Tom just did not care. Instead we enjoyed dinner with our neighbors at their house.

So that is that. Happy Flag day anyway!  It has been incredibly hot outside. We have had a heat wave all week. We are not ready for it. I have been trying to get the rest of my veggies in the ground. But I don't want to disturb my bluebirds either. They have a new nest of eggs. I don't think they have hatched yet, but I am surprised they are not cooking out there in the birdhouse. This was also not a good week to be home sick with a cold(which is what I was).  I ended up staying home on Thursday and Friday to get some rest. Scott took good care of me with Ramen noodles and milkshakes.

Allison was off at camp on a training week. She got her recertification for archery as well as CPR. The counselors also got to spend a day as a camper, participating in usual camp activities like arts and crafts, swimming, archery and her new favorite-the ropes course and zip line. She stayed an extra day to assist with a camp open house and came home Saturday night. She usually comes home on Friday and returns Sunday morning, but she got to stay home an extra day. On Sunday afternoon we went shopping to look for some dress black shorts for her uniform. The camp staff are supposed to wear dress shorts when the parents drop off and pick up their kids. Makes the staff look official. She also picked up a few knick knacks for goody bags for her camp buddy. Next week will be a very small start to the summer camp schedule as most kids are still in school. I guess they decided not to cancel, so only 19 kids are showing up for the whole camp. I guess that will make it easier(and less formal).

Tom was gone again all last week. He flew up to Vermont for a work week. Instead of coming straight home, he detoured his flight down to Tampa Florida so he could drive his Dad's car back here to Baltimore. Tom has been shopping for a new car and really liked Dad Seitz's Buick Rendezvous. Except Tom could not find one. So Dad sold him his car and got a Buick Enclave to replace it. We decided it was time to pass Zippy on to Scott for driver's training which will start this summer(here we go again!). And Tom needed a new car for himself. Scott is signed up for driver's training in August. So Tom arrived in Tampa on Thursday night and drove down to Venice for a quick visit with Mom and Dad S and Susan and John. Then on Friday morning he hit the road and spent two days driving back. He took a quick stopover in Orlando at Downtown Disney to do some shopping with a gift card he got at Christmas. He was excited to get a Hawaiin shirt with a Star Wars print-hot off the rack-as Disney now owns the rights to Star Wars. Now he is ready for when the new movie comes out at Christmas. He returned home on Saturday evening after spending the night in North Carolina. He got home about the same time Allison did. The two were pooped out so they did not join Scott and I at our neighbor's high school graduation party for their daughter.

 Scott headed over in the afternoon for a quick meal and swim in the pool. He wanted a break from studying for finals. And he had already spent his morning at a boy scout meeting planning next year's troop events. I also ended up working Saturday morning to catch up with the day I took off. I then decided to take my mom to the party with me to get her out for awhile. She usually spends all her time sitting with Dad on his floor. For a change, she enjoyed sitting by the pool in their wooded yard, eating BBQ. And so did I. We also enjoyed playing with their new Boxer puppy, Luna. Scott decided to bring Cookie over as well. Cookie loved lying out by the pool also, but was not excited about having another puppy jump all over her and bite her tail.

I also took Mom Bozyk out on Monday evening for her dentist appointment. Afterwards, I had an end of the year Girl Scout choir concert at a local nursing home, so I took mom along to that too. We then have a few snacks and a year end meeting, so she came along for that as well. Unfortunately we had a huge rain storm to navigate on the way home, but it made for an interesting outing( a very wet one).

On Tuesday, Scott and I enjoyed an end of the year Robotics team party at the coaches house just around the corner. We all sat outside, parents and kids and had pizza and snacks. He set up yard games for the kids like badmitton along with a trampoline which kept them all busy. And we parents sat around discussing all our boys future education. Looks like they all want to be engineers. Imagine that.  We also talked about a summer robotics camp that the group had hoped to put on, but ran out of time. As Scott has the most experience, they were looking for him to lead the program. They decided to spend more time next year laying out the coursework and getting out the advertising.

That is fine as Scott already has a very busy summer planned. Of course, Boy Scouts keeps him very busy each week. And he has several camps he will be attending this summer, Next week he will be volunteering at Cub Scout camp in the STEM program. But first he has to get through finals! He can't wait.

The Florida car's new home in Maryland. Very impressive.