Incredible unbelievable weekend

We drove down to Florence on Friday night, I thought to celebrate Max and Anya's birthdays. When we got there, Anya said that Miles had something to show me -- it turned out to be Cinda !!!!! who had sneaked in from Seattle for the weekend. I was totally surprised and delighted.
We stayed overnight there, had a wonderful, lazy, relaxed morning. (You can't see Miles snuggling under the duvet, but he was there.)

Then, after a trip to the local yarn store, which is knitters' heaven, Cinda came back to Marlborough to spend Sunday and part of Monday. Max, Anya, Miles, and Stella (to the left, below) came up for lunch Sunday.

Jerry grilled us swordfish; Cinda grilled us asparagus. (Recipes available on request.)
But the weekend continued. Monday my brother Luther and sister-in-law Miriam came up for the day, luckily overlapping Cinda, so they got to see each other. Cinda left to go back to Seattle just after they headed home.
And to top it all off on Tuesday a college roommate I hadn't seen in 45 years but re-connected with on Facebook (yay, Facebook) and her husband, on a trip to the US from Greece, came up to see us. It was funny to see how memories came floating back as we talked --nothing profound, mostly names and faces, a few anecdotes. It was an interesting experience.

And then I zonked out, and have just slept a total of eleven hours. But what a glorious weekend!