July Continued, and the Rest of our Tahoe Summer
Our youngest grandchild, Naomi, helping with camp check. Rob's birthday celebration lasted from Tuesday, July 18, through Sunday, July 23, with various family coming and going. When I finished my last blog post I had intended to do a blog post about our shed fire before continuing with a blog about the Tahoe summer. I had been thinking philosophically about what the fire and its aftermath means and thought I'd write about my thoughts, but it's already September, the fire happened July 20, and we've just been cleared by the insurance company to clean up the mess, and we've barely begun to submit the itemization of the contents of and around the shed that were destroyed by the fire. In July I was feeling like the fire was a minor "blip," but I guess it's a bit more than that. State Farm, our insurance company, is excellent, but settling a claim like this takes time. The delay in cleanup is really a protection for us as we awaited State Farm's dec...