Many balls in the air – trying hard not to drop any….   I’ve been traveling and visiting friends, with another trip to see my grandmother coming up soon; I’m winding down the tutoring this summer and getting ready to add full-time-school to full-time-work; moving quickly now towards buying a house with a little more room for growth, both family-wise and investment-wise.  And of course, clinging every day to the hope that a phone call about an adoption will throw all these carefully-crafted plans out the window! Meanwhile, the fancy new phone takes fancy new pictures, and it’s properly mid-summer this weekend.  Here’s what summer looks like: