On Thursday night J. loaded up the van with six children and one dog and headed to his aunt's Beach house in Michigan. I stayed home. By myself. Well, by myself along with four cats, five horses, and innumerable poultry. Sometimes paying a house sitter just isn't in the budget and I needed to sew. So as I was recreating my own version of a sweatshop, I would get pictures like this. They all had a lovely time. While I enjoy going to the beach house, it just wasn't in the cards this year and it was an unusual experience to be alone with absolutely no schedule for four days. For someone who likes very much to start a project and not be interrupted, there was great players in that. Everyone is home now. We'll have our nit-back-to-school outing tomorrow and then life gets back to its usual schedule. In terms of sewing, I have handwork and hemming on my dress and H.'s dress, I have handwork on G.'s vest, I have nearly all the sewing done on L.'s vest, and my j