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Saturday there was a book fair in Old Town Square that we checked out. I spent under $3 and came home with 4 new novels to read! They were even running some writing workshops and other literary-type activities. The neatest thing though had to have been this large Scrabble board game going on. How cool is that?

With all of the last minute edits and graduate school red tape to jump through DH was saying completing his Masters had been kind of anti-climatic. So, when we popped our heads into the new cheese shop in town, The Welsh Rabbit, we ended up sitting down at the bar to split a flight of cheeses, a glass of Prosecco and some bread and crackers. It was a nice little impromptu celebration.

We chose such a broad palette of cheeses I can’t even say I walked out of there with a clear favorite. Though a local goat milk cheese certainly impressed me (Queso de Mano from Haystack Mountain, a favorite cheese producer of ours since our first summer together going to the farmer’s market), as did a not as local sheep milk cheese. We also got to try one of Drew’s long wished for cheeses - a clothbound cheddar and it was equally impressive. Next time we’ll stick to 3 or *maybe* 4 cheeses. 5 was a lot!

I don’t know if you heard, but the rain dances have worked. The monsoon hit and we had several days of afternoon and evening showers starting late last week. We totaled around 3 inches in the last week. It has been very much needed, though it came on a bit fast and there have been mud slides and such in the burn areas. The river is now running quite black I’m told (I haven’t wandered down there yet, but plan to do so over lunch). With all the wet, Sunday was mostly a lazy day, interrupted briefly with a grocery trip, after which I prepped a bunch of fruit and vegetables for quicker lunch packing during the week.

How was your weekend? Did you keep busy, or kick back and recover from the mid-week holiday?