What I did on my summer vacation.....Alex and I cleaned out the shop!  We've been working on it, and the garage, all spring and summer, but we finally got Ralph out to go through all his 'treasures' that we couldn't throw away, and got the shop sorted and put together so you can walk through it (really, you couldn't walk through it before.....)  We made a dump run with the trailer overflowing, and have started a new pile to haul off of things that Ralph decided that we really could toss, but for now, we are done.  Whew!  It feels so nice to walk out into the garage and shop are now, and not feel like we are on the next edition of Hoarders.....

I also crocheted a large market bag while I was off, or at least finished it.