So many people have said to me this week that you can’t beat this weather. It has been perfect — warm during the day and nighttime is cool enough to sleep without sweating. Seems like everyone is happy, so we are all happy!

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Michael Courtney and Joseph Serpa, who celebrated their day August 24; Samuel Rollins and Emma Searle, August 25; Brannan Gerard, August 27; Sophia Da Costa, August 28, and to Connor Graves and Gabriel Jarillo who celebrate their day today, August 29.

Special birthday wishes go out to Linley Dolby who celebrated her day August 23. Plus, happy anniversary to Linley and her husband Dave Weagle as they celebrated their anniversary on the same day. Here is to many more birthdays and years together!

Some say it is over, others say we have to wait until the middle of September, but the Grand Illumination was last week as was the fair and the fireworks. For some that is the end of summer as they are off to get the kids back to school, or in some instances they to have to get back to work. In all reality, the Island is slowing down some. Last week was no disappointment. Illumination was a nice, cool night and had lots of people (so I hear as I did not leave Edgartown), but my little Brit friend and his co-worker ventured over and they said it was beautiful.

Thursday my niece Lori Noble and her daughter Sabrina and son Benjamin came for the day with her brother, Dave Boulanger, to go to the fair. We took Ella Blodgett with us to help with the rides. They had so much fun. Sabrina is 2, Ella is 8 going on 37, and Benjamin is 8 months. He enjoyed all the movements going on around him, but Sabrina and Ella had a ball. There is nothing like seeing things through the eyes of a child.

We had the fireworks, which I hear were spectacular, and then the last two days of the fair. It was a busy week for all, but a fun one.

The museum is opening its latest exhibit on August 29, depicting three generations of artists from one family in Moore and Moore and Moore. Although a little tongue-in-cheek, the title declares that the talent just keeps coming.

Moore and Moore and Moore reveals the connections and relationships of three artists: landscape painter Nelson Augustus Moore, his great-great grandson, Island realist painter Andrew Gordon Moore, and Andrew’s daughter, artist Hannah Moore. See works by all three in a celebration of Moores. The exhibit will open on August 29 with an opening reception in the museum galleries from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free for museum members and $7 for nonmembers. Children under 6 are always free. The exhibit will remain on display through Oct. 25.

Janet Anthony is always happy when her daughter Ashley and her grandson Nigel Ross Alexander come for a visit. They came for two weeks and Nigel had 16 activities on his list of things to do while he was here. He had a lemonade stand (which his grandfather Doug Hathaway) built for him. He went fishing, clamming, quahoging, kayaking, and scuba fishing (snorkel and mask), for which they called him Scuba Steve. They went to the Flying Horses, the fair, and he even went horseback riding. It was a great visit that went by all too fast.

Janet also told me that her son Ross is still in Colorado. Ross is working as a chef in a restaurant where one of the entrees is ceviche. Of course Ross is familiar with seafood and was raised with a scallop knife in his hand, so he was able to show his boss and other co-workers how to open shellfish.

All is well with the Hathaway family, and we are glad they are happy in life and doing well.

Have a great week and keep the home candles burning.

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