2023 #5: Crazy summer
What a crazy summer! We had a lot going on. Steph has gone 1 year cancer-free on her first-line treatment. Our son got married. We're about to retire. We've got major construction at our house. And, we've camped. A lot. First things first. Steph was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer last summer, 12 years after her initial cancer diagnosis and treatments. We are very happy to report that the current treatment has been successful so far, with no evidence of disease on her most current scans. On top of that, she felt well enough to get out and enjoy this past summer. We certainly made the best of it. As I posted earlier, we started camping right after school got out in June (we're both teachers) with a week dry-camping at Hammonasset State Park. We had a nice corner site in the woods overlooking the tidal marsh. A week later we returned to "Hammo" in a different site - this one in an open field - for 2 more weeks. In July, our son married Katherine, the lo