My brother John watches his son John preparing to rip one at Green Mountain National Golf Course.

My brother John watches his son John preparing to rip one at Green Mountain National Golf Course.

My brother John, his wife Georgina, daughter Christina and son John, are up in Vermont visiting us for a few days. They are escaping the heat and humidity from down south. Of course, Mary and I think that the weather that we are having is a little juicy... but I guess it is all what you your used too!

Yesterday, John and his son joined me for a round of golf at Green Mountain National. You never quite know how family golf outings will go, especially since we do not get a chance to see much of each other due to the distances separating where we live. My brother used to caddie at the same golf course (Belmont Country Club) that I did when we were growing up as kids. John is 5 years younger than I am, so we did not play that often together growing up. But the lessons of playing golf every day in your teen age years stick with you into middle age, and he still hit's a pretty good ball for someone that plays only occasionally.

My nephew, John Jr., has just started to play the game. John Jr is 16, with shoulder length hair. He is an aspiring musician. When he arrived at the inn, he was wearing a "Boston" UFO tee shirt, for those of you who are fans of the band Boston. His summer wardrobe also consists of several "Beatles" tee shirts. It is somewhat of a change from the "Nascar" tee shirts we were used to seeing him in the last time they visited the inn several years ago. Anyways, I digress. John Jr dressed the part to play golf, with a collared shirt and a scotch cap, borrowed from his sister. In his teen years, with the demise of caddying, my nephew does not play golf any where near as often as his father or I did when we were his age, but he still did a nice job tooling around the links at Green Mountain.

My niece, who is 18, is heading off to college in a couple of weeks. She and my sister in law, went to Woodstock yesterday to take in the shops and galleries. Christina acquired a collection of vintage postcards that she was busy filling in to send off to friends, and some art deco style jewelry. She is clearly in the between world where high school has ended and college has not begun. She has a couple more weeks of being a kid... then college starts! To be young again.

Today, they were all off to Killington's adventure center to ride the gondola, waterslide, and Alpine slide. If I can, I will try to steal some pictures from them about their adventures.