I’ll keep my first world whining about broken wrists (with 1st world medicine), and broken car (with means to procure a new one), and busted hot water heater….twice (with access to clean, healthy, running water), and instead focus on a little gratitude.

We extended our trip to Pamplin Grove to the full 4 days this year, and as always, spent some time with some pretty awesome people in a pretty awesome place. Forest fires were ablaze just an hour or so away, and the river was virtually non-existent, but all that meant was that we had some amazing sunsets and were pushed to find the one tiny spot in the river with moving water (so that no one was subjected to toxic algae blooms).

Lemons, lemonade. As has been the lesson all summer.

(click here for the set)